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Singing, Our Concert and Memorabilia

I love singing and this afternoon was back at our choir rehearsal. It appears that the happy chemicals seratonin, oxytocin and dopamine are all released when singing together and I certainly fely better for the session.

Our annual concert is only six days away! We are celebrating the Ingleheart Singers’ 20th Anniversary. I have been in the choir for the last 18 years and 7 months and our concert is going to have a selection of pieces from those last 20 years. If you are local, do come and join us and please, introduce yourself! It will be an evening full to bursting with JOY!

We are collecting memorabilia of those years and today I took along a poster and programmes from Until The Day Break, a wonderful open air theatre production I was instrumental in producing. Claire had brought in a card from a wedding we sang at and at which I was the Humanist Celebrant.

If you’d like to see more of Until the Day Break, where the Ingleheart Singers were the singers, click here.

Extra info for the concert:

Free parking, bar open, raffle, donations on the door to Community Roots Cornwall and ShelterBox

Thankyou to Ruby Ingleheart for the lovely poster!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 12, 2026 in Celebration, community, Cornwall, friendship, Happiness, Humanist ceremony, Perthi Kov, Postaday 2026

Tags: Porthtowan Eco Park

Full Moon Photos

29 Jul

Tonight’s full moon is the Buck Moon and last night, being clear, gave us a wonderful view. I managed a couple of photos but they didn’t quite catch the orange glow of the moon and all around it. To the naked eye, it seemed to be more the golden colour of the sun than the silveriness of the moon.

Orange halo

Behind the branches

Zoomed in

One of our friends also took a photo and it is just glorious, taken by holding his camera to the eye piece of a telescope. He did catch the colour! I have been given permission to share it with you.

Thank you J.

I’m singing shanties with my choirs tonight at the Eco Park in Porthtowan. If you are local and read this in time, come along. We start at 8pm!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 29, 2026 in environment, nature, Porthtowan, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: Porthtowan Eco Park

Singing, Boots and More Boots

13 Dec

After a super singing session ( there may be a video to come….) at the Eco Park, we had mince pies in the airy atrium to wish each other a Happy Christmas. Our next sing will hopefully be in January. I love the colour in the car park area, reminding me of my golden Docs, worn to school when teaching and earning me the nickname of Goldenboots, which I learned about years after retiring and which I love.

Eco Park, Bee and Poppy

08 Jul

My choirs are meeting up at the Porthtowan Eco Park where we can sing in the atrium, covered but with plenty of air circulating. Over the weeks I’ve been watching the development of a beautiful mural and today stopped to talk to the artist, Camilla, to tell her how much I love her work. All the elements of the eco park are here – vegetables and edible flowers growing, wind turbines turning, musicians playing and singing, food being served, campers playing and all in such lovely earthy colours. She’s working on an elevated platform and is well wrapped up against the wind and mizzle.

The bee flew off just as I focussed!

A poppy self-seeded in the edible garden in the trough just outside the kitchen window. I know it isn’t edible but I left it there because it is beautiful.

Photo taken through the window

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 8, 2021 in art, Cornwall, environment, garden, mural, nature, painting, Photography, Postaday2021

Tags: Camilla artist, Porthtowan Eco Park

Busy Day and Sunset Walk

19 Jul

Haven’t stopped today! Gardening, sewing masks, joining in Claire’s Singing Workshop at the No Pressure online Festival and then reading stories over Skype to Twin LiveWires 5 and 6 who are three years old. No 1 LiveWire always listens in too even though she is 12 and she loves Super Worm and Peppa Pig as much as they do.

Claire and her lovely daughters

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 19, 2020 in Cornwall, environment, Photography, Postaday2020, Uncategorized

Tags: No Pressure, Porthtowan Eco Park, Tropical Pressure Festival

Tyres, Crocuses and Glass Trees

05 Feb

After a wonderful session singing at the Eco Park this morning, I spotted these brightly painted tyres as I was leaving. I’m sure they will all be planted up before too long

In a first for February, our lawn needed mowing today! As he was busy, the lovely Mr S realised that some crocuses had planted themselves in the middle and called me out to see a surprise.

I put donated/discarded jewellery on all my glass pieces (which are all made from reclaimed or rescued glass) and today I have added Cherry Blossom to one of my trees and an owl to the other. There are three more in the making….. These are all being made for 29th February when we will be joining in the planting of 800 trees and raising money for a Refugee charity.

Little Owl

Cherry blossom

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 5, 2020 in charity, environment, garden, glass, nature, Photography, Postaday2020, Uncategorized

Tags: Porthtowan Eco Park, stained glass art

Snoods, Designs and A Crocus

06 Feb

I’ve been knitting snoods for a collection of warm stuff for refugees.

Snoods

Modelling a snood!

The first Wednesday of each month is Sing For Your Heart at the Eco Park. Today was as uplifting as always. There was a goodly collection of donations for the next load going to Calais to help the refugees. Love the designs in the atrium.

At the Eco Park

Our first purple Crocus has appeared.

Purple Crocus

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 6, 2019 in art, Kindness, knitting, nature, Photography, Postaday 2019

Tags: Calais, Porthtowan Eco Park, refugees

Recycling, Cake and Book No 7

07 Nov

I always enjoy going to Porthtowan’s Eco Park both for the Singing for Your Heart and Soul and for the grounds. Today I found another quirky planter made of old tyres.

Beautiful planter

This afternoon, it being stormy and wet again, I decided to bake and made a Hummingbird Cake. I found it in one of my SIL’s cookery books while we were in Atlanta in September. It sounds delicious, contains bananas and pineapple, vanilla and cinnamon so we will see when it is sandwiched and iced with a cream cheese icing.

Just out of the oven

My last choice for the Book Challenge is Lonesome Dove, a 1985 Western by Texan author Larry McMurtry. It was reading this that made me want to visit Montana but we haven’t made it yet.

I loved a Western!

The story focuses on the relationship between several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. The novel explores themes of old age, death, unrequited love and friendship and is unputdownable! I think it has been made into a film but I don’t like to see films of books I have read as they rarely match up to the film I had in my head when I was reading!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 7, 2018 in baking, books, Photography, Postaday2018

Tags: Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, Porthtowan Eco Park

Webs, A Planter and Marrows

03 Oct

We were greeted by a thick fog this morning and it hardly lifted all day. The result was beautiful droplets on plants and webs in the early morning.

Diamond strings

I went singing at the Porthtowan Eco Park this morning. The session is called ‘Sing for your heart, sing for your soul’, led by Claire Ingleheart, and it is as uplifting as it sounds. I love looking round the site after singing and found this delightful planter made from an old tyre.

Toucan planter

The crop of marrows was very impressive!

What a crop!

We met with friends in the afternoon at The Blue Bar in Porthtowan and spent a delightful couple of hours catching up, not having seen each other since our South Africa holiday in May. The sea was barely discernible through the fog so no photos of the sea today.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 3, 2018 in art, Beauty, environment, friendship, nature, Photography, Postaday2018, Uncategorized

Tags: marrow crop, Porthtowan Eco Park, Sing for your heart, Sing for Your Heart Sing for Your Soul

Singing, Eco Park and Pesto

01 Aug

This morning was the monthly Sing for your Heart session at Porthtowan Eco Park and it was fabulous as always – truly uplifting. It is wonderful to look around the room and see so many people smiling with pleasure at the harmonies they have just achieved under Claire’s magical tutelage. If you are reading this and you live in Cornwall…….

Sing for your Heart poster

After a delicious brunch, I walked over to the secluded fire pit area and sat in Nature’s silence to read my book for a couple of hours. I’m sure you can imagine the peace. The gallery will give you a flavour of this lovely place and so will this earlier post and this one,

A pair of totem poles

Through the window

Where I sat for two hours

Looking across the fire pit to the window

A dream catcher on one of the trees in the orchard

I have made my own Pesto for the first time today. Instead of mixing Basil into the tomato sauce for Mozzarella Pasta, I served a dollop of the Pesto on top and it was delicious! I also used Pea pasta which gives us another of our 5-a-day!