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Bouquet, A Shed and Cat’s Eyes

It was our last session for singing with The Suitcase Singers until September and next week is our lovely choir leader’s half century birthday. To make it special each member of the choir was asked to bring a couple of blooms or greenery from their garden so that we could put together a more personal bunch than one from a shop. The resulting bouquet was absolutely amazing, full of colour and scent and most of all, full of our love for Claire

Thanks to Mandy Rolleston for this photo. There’s a new shed at the allotment and it is gorgeous!

Coming back up Church Lane after watering and harvesting this evening, we met a new cat. Just look at its eyes!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 22, 2021 in Celebration, community, flowers, friendship, Photography, Postaday2021

Tags: Suitcase Singers

Cake, Buoy and A Singing Trip

03 Jun

I made a vegan Chocolate, Date and Coffee cake for our shared supper on board for The Suitcases boat trip from Falmouth to Mylor to sing and then along the River past all the lovely creeks and inlets. Our singing went down well with our audiences. Click on any photo for the caption and a bigger view.

Decorated with nasturtium flowers

Singing outside

A Buoy

This is Pill Creek, the first place I lived when we first moved to Cornwall when I was 6 years old. We lived in the house with the long verandah.

Trelissick

King Harry Ferry

Stillness

Trelissick House

Sunbeams

Singing on the boat on the way home

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 3, 2018 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, Photography, Postaday2018

Tags: King Harry Ferry, Suitcase Singers, Trelissick

Still Waters, Choir-babies and The Horizon

19 Jan

What a gloriously crisp day today. The view from The Zed Shed where we sing was perfection itself.

We had two Grandbabies as our Choir-babies today and they were both entranced by Claire, our leader and teacher – couldn’t take their eyes away!

Driving home from getting two new tyres this afternoon, this was our view over a hedge, the bluest horizon, the Atlantic Ocean on our North coast. The lovely Mr S was driving and I took this as we came over the brow of the hill.

Kindness, Shoreline and Celebrities

11 Jul

I have been a part of Shoreline today on the beach at Sennen and it was wonderful. Click on the red link for photos of the earlier production. Being in it, of course, means no photos but heightened emotions. The sun was setting, the tide was coming in, the dancers were in the waves and I couldn’t sing the words “sing for the mother and the child she holds” if I watched the dancers struggling in the water.

This is the beach just as we finished. It was a stunning performance this evening and I heard some people as they were leaving, talking about how very moving it was. As we moved towards the part of the beach designated for the second performance some people asked me what was happening and I explained and invited them to stay for the promenade performance. I was told afterwards that I had been talking to one of our well known actors, Alun Armstrong! Yesterday Dawn French happened upon the performance on the beach and tweeted about us.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 11, 2016 in Beauty, Celebration, Cornwall, Happiness

Tags: Alun Armstrong, Dawn French, ingleheart singers, Sennen Cove, Shoreline, Simon Birch dance, Suitcase Singers

Shoreline, Bows, Thirsty Dog and Bedruthan Steps

09 Jul

Shoreline is a beautiful production on Cornish beaches incorporating dance and music. Do click on the red link to discover what it is all about and enjoy the gallery of today’s Premiere on Watergate Bay Beach. Click on any photo for the bigger picture. Today we watched our choirs singing – in the productions on Sennen and at Kynance next week, I will be a part of it all.

A little girl in the audience had beautiful bows in her hair.

Leaving the beach and the choir having their picnics before the second performance, I spotted a new use for a sand spade.

After that very emotional performance, I felt the need for some sea and space so we went a few miles up the coast to Bedruthan Steps where we were blown about by the wind on the cliff tops.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 9, 2016 in Beauty, Cornwall, dance, environment, gigs, Photography, Postaday 2016, Uncategorized

Tags: Bedruthan Steps, Claire Ingleheart, Simon Birch dance, Suitcase Singers, The Ingleheart Singers, Watergate Bay

Sea Singing!

23 Jul

It was the last sing with Suitcase Singers this term so afterwards we all went down to Gylly Beach for a big sandy picnic. A bunch of them went in the sea and sang for those of us on the beach and it was rather lovely!

Singing in the sea

I did make a video but the sound of the sea and the wind almost drowns out their singing of Oxygen.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 23, 2015 in Beauty, Cornwall, Falmouth, friendship, Happiness, photography, Postaday 2015, singing

Tags: Gylly Beach, Oxygen, Suitcase Singers

Sea Air, Gorse and Waves

22 Jan

It was a beautiful bright, crisp winter day today so we decided a trip to breathe in some wonderful sea air was in order. It was just so lovely to be standing on the cliffs near St Agnes Beacon, listening to the waves crashing below and breathing in slowly and deeply, relishing every moment outdoors in the winter sunshine.

The gorse in the hedgerows was a glorious golden yellow, lane after lane lined with the golden glow.

After being on the cliffs we drove down to Chapel Porth where the waves were tipped with sunlight as they rolled ever inwards. There is something mesmerising and healing about watching the endless movement.

My choir sang for me over the phone again this morning. I so appreciate hearing them singing and am longing for the day when I can join them again, if only for a part of a session! Thank you, Suitcase Singers and Sue.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 22, 2015 in Beauty, Chapel Porth, Cornwall, environment, Happiness, nature, photography, Postaday 2015, Sea

Tags: gorse, St Agnes Beacon, Suitcase Singers

Poppy, Stories and Buns

24 Jul

1 As I drew the blinds this morning, there was a new pink poppy, just opened this morning.

My view of the poppy from indoors

Poppy

2 We had lots of Choir-babies today as the schools have broken up. Our regular Choir-baby E was delighted to be read to by the lovely older girls, M and E, who were with us.

M and E reading to Choir-baby E

3 The lovely Suitcase Singers bought all my buns and I have raised £23.00 for War Against Weapons to help with sending the blankets on to people who need them after the Pink Protest on 9th August.

Buns for fund-raising

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 24, 2014 in Beauty, Children, Happiness, Kindness, nature, Peace, photography, Postaday 2014

Tags: Suitcase Singers, War Against Weapons

Shire Horses, Sea and Rachel Rose Reid

15 Mar

1 We went to The Lost Gardens of Heligan today to watch the Shire horses ploughing. What skill and what a pleasure to watch man and beasts at work. Listening to his instructions and watching the horses reactions was brilliant. He always started with, “Now, listen, horses!” and they did!

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The long view

2 The sea at Mevagissey was a beautiful blue.

View of the sea as we left Heligan

3 Tonight, The Suitcase Singers had a gig at Miss Peapod’s and the wonderful Rachel Rose Reid told some of her amazing stories which were just so moving, especially with the backing of the singers. I have no voice tonight so was in the audience – and what a treat that was! Under Claire Ingleheart’s tutelage we have become quite the choir! We look good, we sound good and we have fun. What’s more, the audience all around me agreed with me! Thank you, Suitcase Singers, Daisy Berks and Rachel Rose Reid for an excellent night of entertainment.

Rachel Rose Reid telling a story

Moon over The Penryn River

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 15, 2014 in Beauty, nature, Penryn, photography, The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Tags: Claire Ingleheart, Daisy Berks, Rachel Rose Reid, Shire horses ploughing, storyteller extraordinaire, Suitcase Singers

Singing, Flowers and Skyping to Barcelona

16 Aug

1 I can’t tell you how much I love singing! At Suitcases this morning we sang through our gig list for the event on Sunday when all three of Claire’s choirs, about a hundred of us, will sing together in the amphitheatre at Carn Marth.

Kurt Vonnegut – Sing in the shower!

2 Before the rain started this afternoon, I managed to get this beautiful picture of a Daisy against the Crocosmia.

Daisy with Crocosmia

3 Daniel and Ami Skyped together from Barcelona! For those of you who haven’t followed their story, Daniel, our son, and Ami were married in Senegal in April, see Daniel and Ami’s Wedding and they are only now, more than four months later, able to live together as it has taken this long time to get Ami’s Visa.

It was so beautiful to see them together, smiling so much, laughing and delighting in the fact that they had just gone supermarket shopping together for a meal together in their own place! The very word ‘together’ is beautiful!