I’ve made my first angel of the season and I’m feeling good!
Tonight I’ve made a gluten free Ginger Spiced Honey Cake for the volunteers tomorrow.
I’ve had another brief letter published in The Guardian. Simple pleasures delight me!
Tag Archives: The Guardian
Angel, Cake and A Letter
Flowers, A Spitfire and A Pudding
It’s good that the Alstroemeria are still flowering. I like them and the yellow Canna against the dark red of the red Canna’s leaves. 
We watched a Spitfire fly past today! It was doing a circuit of all Cornwall’s hospitals saying “Thank you” to our wonderful NHS. It was a long way away!
The NHS Spitfire – Photo by Greg Martin / Cornwall LIve
Mr Netherton’s photo, here with permission.
Today’s Feast magazine from The Guardian had a Chocolate and Pear Pudding from Felicity Cloake that I just had to make! It was easy and the result, delicious, served warm with a little single cream. 
Letter, Crocuses and Cake
The Guardian newspaper printed my letter this morning! There has been ongoing correspondence for the last month about marmalade making and I joined in! Regular readers will know about my marmalade making every January.
From The Guardian 15/2/2020
Storm Ciara did a good job of flattening our Spring flowers. They were just beginning to perk up when Dennis arrived. The Crocuses and little Iris Reticulata have suffered the most. The Tete a Tete are still standing up.
The weather outside is frightful so we have stayed indoors, re-hung some more paintings after the decorating, curled up and read and, later, baked a Banana and Raisin Loaf.
Shakespeare’s Birthday, St George’s Day and Ceramic Sculpture
1 In honour of The Bard’s Birthday, The Globe yesterday held a poetry reading of Sonnet 18 in many different languages,(from Norwegian through Latin to Catalan!) which The Guardian has published today. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/22/in-praise-of-shakespeares-sonnet-18 If you follow the link, there is a fascinating discussion which many of my poetry-lover readers may enjoy. The Globe Theatre is putting on all 37 plays in 37 different languages which is brilliant. (What’s not so brilliant is that the event is being sponsored by BP)
2 Yesterday at the Lelant Garden Centre, I saw this delightful wooden sculpture of St George and the Dragon.That poor Dragon and the rotten triumphal George!
St George has Slain the Dragon
3 This beautiful little sculpture by Bruce Hardwick always makes me smile.
Bird Sculpture by Bruce Hardwick
Wislawa Szymborska, Another Wedding and The Inglehearts
1 Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel prizewinner, died on 1st February 2012 and The Guardian printed this poem of hers which I find very beautiful.
A miracle (what else can you call it):
the sun rose today at three fourteen
a.m.
and will set tonight at one past eight
A miracle that’s lost on us:
the hand actually has fewer than six
fingers
but still it’s got more than four.
A miracle, just take a look around:
the inescapable earth.
An extra miracle, extra and ordinary:
the unthinkable
can be thought.
(translated into English by Stanisław Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh)
Wislawa Szymborska in 2010. Photograph: Jacek Turczyk/EPA
2 Had another enquiry about a wedding, this one a recommendation from a couple whose wedding I did a couple of years ago which is very pleasing.
3 Singing with the Inglehearts. Tonight we rehearsed ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ by the Beatles in an arrangement by Claire and it felt good!
Pooh Bear, “The Cry of the Tin” and Learning French for Senegal
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Pooh Bear
“What day is it,?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favourite day,” said Pooh.”
I love Pooh Bear! And I love the fact that he doesn’t know what day it is! I don’t ask – I just use the day’s Guardian!
2 Thanks to David who sent along emails this afternoon with MP3s of our singing from Sunday evening with the Treggies. ‘The Miners’ Anthem’ is such a haunting and beautiful song. It was written for a production called ‘The Cry of Tin’ which, I discovered is “a powerful 90 minute musical documentary drama telling the story of the rise and fall of mining in Cornwall, focusing on its impact on the people and the land.”
The title comes from when the assayer puts the ingot on a bending machine. As the tin flexes it makes an eerie sound from which he judges its value. They call it the Cry of the Tin.” I love finding things out!
3 French Conversation was hard today! I did learn new vocabulary and I am getting more confident about speaking to Ami’s family when we are in Senegal!
