1 We’ve had very welcome help today moving the furniture out of the dining room prior to the lovely Mr S sanding the floorboards. (For those who know about the mini flood, we’ve decided against a carpet and are opting for beautiful floorboards!) The extending dining table has been taken apart and exposed this interesting little ivory stamp.
Majik mark and number
I looked it up and found this delightful advert for a table with similar action though the legs of ours are very different.
Advertisement for 1930s oak ‘Majik’ dining table with patent extending action, by Perkins Bros, Leicester
2 I finished the very little Leg Warmies just in time for them to be taken home by L. Thank you so much to Alana from NevernotKnitting for the pattern.
Baby leg warmies
3 When our daughters had left after a delightful 24 hours of enjoying their company, we had a walk around the garden and discovered buds on the Clematis, Montana Elizabeth. We have bitter winds forecast ( temperatures of around 0* but with the wind chill factored in feeling like -10*!) so we hope they will survive.
Clematis buds
Yesterday’s Birthday Dinner was lovely and this morning we did Birthday Breakfast and used our beautiful Tree of Life bread-warmer to keep the croissants warm.
Tags: bread warmer, Clematis Montana Elizabeth, leg warmies, Majik table, nevernotknitting, patent, photography, Postaday, postaday2013, tree of life
1 Thank you so much to everyone who offered advice about the fate of our lovely Crocuses. What a Beautiful Community indeed!
I went off for my piano lesson this morning and the patch was intact. When I returned an hour later, the beasties had been there again and uprooted another dozen and in broad daylight! We’ve protected the replanted ones with an upturned hanging basket and a child’s windmill! We think there are deep beak holes in the spaces and wonder – do Jackdaws do this kind of damage? If it happens again, I’m going to have to lie in wait to discover the culprits, be they mice or rats or squirrels or birds!
In the hedgerow near my piano lesson
Daffodils and gorse on the street side
2 Our eldest daughter was 40 yesterday and is coming home tonight for a Birthday dinner ( Smoked salmon and prawn stacks, Venison Casserole with creamy mash and cabbage with bacon followed by Chocolate Torte) No 3 daughter is able to join us and we will Skype with the other two over the course of the evening.
Posy for the table, using rescued Crocuses and Primroses
3 This afternoon I went out to collect the above small posy for the dinner table, I found this beautiful Peacock butterfly on the Muscari. Fortunately, my camera is always in my hand!
Peacock butterfly
Tags: advice, Blogger community, crocuses, peacock butterfly, photography, Postaday, postaday2013, posy, rodent pests, Skype
1 What a lovely way to encourage the customers to do the right thing!
Notice in the cafe
2 After the rain this morning, petrol puddles were left behind on the road – lovely memories of finding these as a child and being so delighted.
Petrol puddle
3 The front garden has two parts – one is my purple, white and green Suffragette garden as I have mentioned before. The other is daffodils and other Spring flowers and the lovely Mr S is preparing the ground for a Birch tree which is to be delivered next week.
Crocuses with raindrops
Daffodil back with raindrops
The next two photos are not beautiful but I need your help, all you readers who may also be gardeners. I went out to get a photo of the Suffragette garden this afternoon as it was looking so pretty. To my dismay, 30 or more crocuses had been pulled up and scattered, some near their place of planting but some over a meter away. Many were broken off at the corm and many of the corms had been nibbled/ pecked? Does anyone out there have any idea what happened and how to prevent it happening again? We’ve replanted all those we could but we have lost so many.
Garden attack
Uprooted crocuses
Tags: flowers, photography, Postaday, postaday2013, Spring, Suffragette Garden
1 The Lemon Butter Cake (recipe to come later) that I was making this afternoon called for a very large bowl so I brought out the Family Super Bowl! It has a brilliant design that allows it to be tipped up and remain stable when the mixture is being beaten and it holds 10 1/2 pints! It has been used for making Christmas puddings for years and years!
The flat area to help stabilise the bowl
The Gripstand bowl
2 At The Maritime Museum in Falmouth a replica Bronze Age boat was launched today after months of work. It’s 16 metres long, made from green oak and has been built using replica Bronze Age tools. It’s a sewn plank boat, a kind of boat unique to England and Wales. The hull of the boat was made by stitching wooden planks together as nails had yet to be invented. You can find out more here.
The Bronze Age sewn plank boat
Inside the boat
Detail of sewn planks, holes plugged with grease
3 This panel caught my eye and reminded me of Monet’s paintings.
Decorated panel
Tags: Bronze Age boat, Falmouth Maritime Museum, Gripstand bowl, Lemon Butter Cake, photography, Postaday, postaday2013, sewn plank boat
1 The curved herb wall is full of tiny bulbs which are bursting with Spring colour. The crocus which has died and fallen from its stem has the most vibrant and wonderful colours.
Purple and orange
Curved herb wall with Spring bulbs
Crocuses
Beautiful red stems on the Cornus Controversa
Tete a Tete daffodils
2 We took this little Spring bouquet to very old friends in Truro today, one of whom is very poorly. They looked after my Dad when he first moved to Cornwall in 1953, took me in for a holiday when I was 14. My family had moved North for a brief time and I was so desperately unhappy to have been taken away from Cornwall and they had me, a tricky teenager, to stay for two weeks! They have been such lovely loyal friends for such a long time.
Small garden bouquet for a friend, Pittosporum and Tete a Tete
3 Truro was lovely as always
Clock Tower on Truro City Hall
Planter on the way into Truro
Clock Tower on the former West Briton Offices, Truro
Flowers in a half-barrel on top of a pole
Tags: photography, Postaday, postaday2013, Spring Flowers, Tete a Tete, Truro, west briton, West Briton Offices Truro
Walking around Hampstead Heath we came across an almost still pond with beautiful reflections. At the far end I could see logs mirrored in the water, looking like a gaping mouth.
Fallen tree in the far distance
Fallen tree not quite so far away
Fallen tree getting closer
Fallen tree closer still
Fallen tree in detail
Fallen tree – close up detail
Click on the first photo and follow the slide show through as I take you closer and closer to the detail.
Tags: photography, Postaday, postaday2013, reflection, trees, water, Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details
1 We played with T in the morning and collected J from school, a rare treat – for all of us, before catching the train home.
Scooting home from school
2 This book is a wonderful read with Harold, on his Unlikely Pilgrimage, noticing all the beautiful things around him. If you haven’t yet read it, do! It is tender and touching, funny and sad and is full of life’s lessons………
Reading this took me two train journeys
3 The journey home was, as always, lovely especially riding into the sunset, here reflecting in the Tamar as we cross into Cornwall.
Sunset over the Tamar
Tags: beauty, photography, Postaday, postaday2013, Rachel Joyce, reflections, River Tamar, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
1. Just look at this beautiful curl.
2. We had a brilliant walk around Hampstead Heath looking at the City of London in the distance, investigating rabbit holes and trees, playing hide and seek and meeting lovely, friendly people.
3. We were giving KJ and L a few hours to themselves so had the Grandbabies to ourselves for the afternoon. We sang silly songs, read stories and made a dragon.
Tags: creating with paper, David Milliband, Hampstead Heath, London view, Postaday, postaday2013
