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A Play, A Pie and My Glass for Sale

A few weeks ago, a lovely friend saw the poster below, advertising a play that had been written from one of my Dad’s novels – The Fate of Jeremy Visick

Stage Struck and The Fate of Jeremy Visick

I saw the play last night and was moved to tears by this production. The interpretation of the story, the bringing up-to-date of elements, the cast – especially the two amazing 11 years olds who played Matthew and Jeremy – the music, the use of technology, the very cleverly designed set all combined to make an unforgettable evening and one which my dear Dad would have been so proud to know about! I sat there almost bursting with pride that all those people were there, on stage and in the audience, because my lovely Dad had written this story! Thank you to Judith Nicholls and to all involved. Let’s hope it can be put on again. It deserves a much wider audience.

I made a Turkey and Leek pie for dinner tonight.

Turkey and Leek pie

I visited the display of my glass in The Craft Collective while in town on Saturday! I’ve up-cycled lots of the bits of sea-glass, earrings, bracelets and other beady bits that friends have given me and have lots more for the next series that I have started already.

Inside The Craft Collective

My first eight pieces

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 3, 2019 in art, craft, Food, glass, Happiness, Photography, Postaday 2019

Tags: Judith Nicholls, Stage Struck Theatre Company, the craft collective, The fate of Jeremy Visick

Weekly Photo Challenge: Family

20 Jan

This is the gravestone to the Martin Family and is in Gwennap Churchyard, Cornwall. It is the story of the family on this stone that inspired my Dad to write his best novel, “Jeremy Visick”. You could click on the photo to make it bigger and to make it easier to read. I’ve put the text under the photo too. Do read it through – what a life for that family, for Ann who lost so many children and her husband – and, indeed for many families in Cornwall in the 1800s.

The Martin Gravestone

LOVING MEMORY

JOHN MARTIN

OF TING TANG IN THIS

PARISH WHO WAS KILLED

BY AN ACCIDENT IN WHEAL

PINK MINE 1^ST MAY 1848

AGED 51 YEARS

ALSO OF ANN, WIFE OF

THE ABOVE DIED 16 DEC 1866

AGED 65 YEARS.

ALSO OF PETHERICK CROSSMAN

3^RD SON OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED 1^ST JULY 1829

AGED 13 MONTHS

ALSO LAVENIA ANDREW 4^TH

DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED 9^TH NOVEMBER, 1843

AGED 14 MONTHS.

ALSO WILLIAM PETHERICK, 2^ND

SON OF THE ABOVE WHO WAS

KILLED BY AN ACCIDENT IN

WHEAL JEWEL MINE 19 DEC 1844

AGED 18 YEARS.

CAPTAIN NICHOLAS ANDREW

THE 5^TH SON. DIED 14 FEB 1872

FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN THE

VARZIA MINES PORTUGAL AND

WAS THERE INTERRED. AGED 37 YEARS.

ALSO, JOHN ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED 5^TH JUNE 1876.

AGED 51 YEARS.

EDWIN THOMAS, YOUNGEST SON,

WHO DIED 22^ND JAN 1878

AGED 33 YEARS.

I’ve read the novel at least a dozen times as it was on the reading list for the children I was teaching. (It was studied at schools all over the country, not only at the school I was teaching at!) We used to study this gravestone and the pupils would write a diary from Ann’s point of view. Their empathy was wonderful and the diaries often quite heartbreaking.

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