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Homecoming Festival

What a fabulous evening we have had at the Lost Gardens of Heligan’s festival, Homecoming. Tonight was the last night and the highlight was an Evening with Dawn French and Sue Hill. First there was a delicious supper in the marquee, lively traditional Cornish music from Dalla Duo and then the hilarious and at times very moving conversation between our lovely neighbour, sculptor and theatre maker, Sue Hill and the comedy actor and writer Dawn French. We all loved it! Enjoy the gallery.

Dalla Duo

Supper tent

Chicken sharing box

Dawn French and Sue Hill

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 22, 2025 in Celebration, Cornwall, friendship, Humour, Postaday2025, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Uncategorized

Tags: Dalla Duo, Dawn French, Sue Hill

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

28 Feb

Tonight we have been to see a one person performance of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and it was brilliant, powerful and totally absorbing. The performance, sensitive and dramatic, the simple and very effective set and the haunting sound effects combined to make a stunning and very atmospheric show. It’s performed by John O’Mahony and produced by our lovely neighbour, Sue Hill. If you get the chance to see it, go along! There are lots of venues. For friends in Cornwall, there will be performances in Penzance and Scorrier House.
Check out the website for all the information here.

Programme cover

John O’Mahony as the Ancient Mariner

Plastic debris all collected from the beach and harbour at Portreath, used on the set.

After-show questions

From the programme:

“Coleridge’s epic poem is magnificently brought to life in John O’Mahony’s mesmerising account. He sets the scene, draws the characters, and takes the audience on a spell-binding journey.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s story of an epic sea journey, written in 1797, centres around the killing of a harmless sea-bird – the albatross. The havoc wreaked by this pointless act of vandalism explodes into one of the most popular and best loved poems in the English language.

In an age that is increasingly aware of humanity’s relationship to, and dependence upon, the environment, Coleridge’s ‘poem of the biosphere’ is undergoing a popular revival. And no wonder; it is a rollicking good yarn suffused with elements of the gothic and the downright ghostly… ‘an unforgettable story told in unforgettable language’.

“A tour de force by a master storyteller. Not to be missed”

Bees and A Story Walk

09 Sep

Such a lots of bee activity on these aliums-

We are looking forward to going on this story walk tomorrow.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 9, 2021 in Cornwall, environment, nature, Photography, Postaday2021, Redruth, Uncategorized

Tags: Annamaria Murphy, Ciaran Clarke, Claire Ingleheart, Heritage Open Days, High Street Sound Walks, Historic England, Pueblo Magico, Sue Hill

Amazing Swim Hats

30 Apr

Words and photos from our lovely neighbour:- “Perfect morning for the inaugural outing of the Wild Swim Hats – 8.00am, calm sea, light winds, seventeen elated swimmers from the Gorran Haven Coldwater Crew, a film crew in wetsuits, ditto Steve Tanner taking photos, me and Meier Williams, clutching each other, weeping with joy, relief and grief (we both have people we would have LOVED to have shared this moment with). But mostly just gloriously happy to be standing on the edge of the shore witnessing this crazy thing…….”

Ready to swim

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 30, 2021 in Celebration, community, Cornwall, Photography, Postaday2021, Uncategorized

Tags: Knee-high Theatre, random acts, Sue Hill, Sue Hill sculptor

Posy, Tulip and Sea Trials

14 Apr

It’s four years since our lovely neighbour, Bill-next-door, died and I took a little remembrance bouquet round to Sue. We also had a lovely lunchtime picnic with mutual friends to remember this special man. You can read more about him here.

Rosemary, Foget-me-not and Blue Muscari in the colour Bill loved

I love dew drops on flowers.

I promised you more photos of the bathing hats on their swim trials.Thanks to Sue and Meier for the photos.

Horses’ Heads

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 14, 2021 in art, Cornwall, environment, friendship, nature, Photography, Portreath, Postaday2021, Wildworks

Tags: Bill Mitchell, Bill Mitchell artistic director, Meier Williams, Sue Hill

Portreath, A Pool and A Little Treasure

12 Apr

We went to Portreath today to watch the sea trials of our neighbour’s amazing creations, the swimming hats that I showed you one of a few days ago.

Sadly, I slipped on the rocks as we set off and am properly bruised (and arnicaed) so my photo is taken on a long zoom and I couldn’t see them once they were in Lady Bassett’s pool. The next trial will be at a safer venue!

Lady Bassett’s pool at Portreath

As we left I spotted a tiny golden heart in the sand, a little token of love to make me feel better.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 12, 2021 in art, Cornwall, environment, Photography, Postaday2021, sculpture, Uncategorized

Tags: Lady Bassett's pool at Portreath, Sue Hill

Swimming Hat, Rose and Cake

08 Apr

Our lovely neighbour is an artist as regular readers will know. She is in the middle of a project making very special swimming hats for local sea swimmers. She needed a model today to set the angle correctly so here is one of her designs. The others so far are a bunch of flowers, a sailing boat and a pineapple.

There is just one rose left from my Mother’s Day bouquet, four weeks after delivery.

Last one standing

We have friends coming round tomorrow for a much longed-for catch-up in the garden so I have made cake. You can find the recipe for this delicious fruity cake by clicking on the red link.

Heligan Pineapple Cake

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 8, 2021 in art, baking, Photography, Postaday2021, sculpture, Uncategorized

Tags: Heligan Pineapple Cake, Sue Hill

A Gift, Supper and A Poem

28 Mar

Our lovely neighbour came home from an Artists’ Residence in Sri Lanka yesterday and brought me a gorgeous silk scarf in my favourite bright colours and covered in elephants which I love. The work she produced while away is both beautiful and moving. You can read about it here in her blog. Scroll down to the first one, Sura Medura, to read in sequence.

Beautiful!

I bought a new cookery book last week, The Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer and we have already enjoyed two of the recipes. Tonight was both simple and tasty.

Rice with Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Pancetta, Feta and Sunflower Seeds

Tonight on Radio 4’s 5pm programme there was an article about how stressed people are becoming over Brexit. The whole thing has been a horror movie in our heads since the vote was for leave and it just gets worse as each day goes by. Finding three beautiful things every day is part of my coping strategy, walking by the sea, being creative with my glass and singing with friends are others and this poem by Mary Oliver offers a walk among the trees “to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.” It is a very lovely poem.

When I am among trees

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 28, 2019 in art, Beauty, Food, friendship, Photography, poetry, Postaday 2019

Tags: Mary Oliver, Rice with Roasted Brussels Sprouts Pancetta Feta and Sunflower Seeds, Rukmini Iyer, Sri Lanka, Sue Hill, Sura Medura

Programme, Posters and A Poem

08 May

Things are coming together for Perthi Kov’s production of ‘Until the Day Break’. Today the programmes were delivered and we collected the posters. Just showing you a little of one for now but when the show is done, I will show you all of them. They have been designed for us by the very talented Anna Oliver of Fresca Marketing using a painting by Sue Hill (programme) and images from St Euny Graveyard.

A little poem today for you:

An Epilogue by John Masefield.

I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 8, 2017 in art, Beauty, painting, Perthi Kov, Photography, postaday2017, theatre

Tags: An Epilogue by John Masefield., fresca marketing, John Masefield, Sue Hill, trust

Weekly Photo Challenge – Time

09 Feb

The beautiful Mud Maid in The Lost Gardens of Heligan, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, has been there for a long time already and will be there for a very long time to come. She is the work of Cornish sculptors Sue Hill and Pete Hill and is a favourite for our Grandchildren to visit. They love the Giant too. For others in this Challenge, click this link.