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A Poem, Weeding and Raspberries

A friend of our son’s. Deasy Bamford, shared a poem she wrote yesterday and she has given me permission to share it with you. It touched me deeply.

by Deasy Bamford

We have volunteered a few times at The Ladder in town, painting the inside, helping with the planting of the garden at the back and today the volunteer force were called in again. There has been scaffolding up for a long, long time as the roof has been being repaired and weeds have had a field day! A whole bunch of people turned up and tidied everything up. I did one small patch and here are the before and after photos.

Before

After

We picked the last raspberries from our allotment this afternoon.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 11, 2025 in allotment, community, Cornwall, environment, garden, poetry, Postaday2025, Redruth, Uncategorized

Tags: The Ladder, volunteering

Masterclass, Penguin and Painting

27 Mar

I spent a very special morning in a Songwriting Masterclass led by the wonderful Angeline Morrison at The Ladder in Redruth… As she put it herself, “I basically got to hang out with immensely creative and lovely people for 3 hours.” It was just brilliant. Look for her Sorrow Songs – a very moving and special collection.

In the entrance to the Ladder is this delightful penguin.

We had to go to Truro in the afternoon and discovered a painting in an alley.

I have told you many times about our work at Community Roots. Last Summer, the chef Andi Oliver came to visit and tonight her programme was on BBC 2, called Andi Oliver’s Fabulous Feasts and we were featured. It was a very pleasing programme that you might like to see. You’ll find it on iPlayer.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 27, 2024 in art, community, Cornwall, environment, mural, Postaday 2024, Uncategorized

Tags: Andi Oliver, Andi Oliver's Fabulous Feasts, Angeline Morrison, Sorrow Songs, The Ladder

Display, The Garden at The Ladder and A Sign

20 May

We love our local greengrocer/deli/butchers shop, The Grow Box. The display outside this morning was gorgeous!

We’ve been helping at the Ladder today, the project at Redruth’s old library, which is becoming a hub for lots of creative ventures, where the Bunker Cabaret was performed and where I did my writing course earlier in the Spring. Today we have helped plant the garden which will back the outdoor stage. The gallery shows the before and after and all the baby veg plants which will be going into a separate plot later.

Stage covered, Cherry tree in place

Cherry tree being planted in the corner

More planting

Right hand side

Baby veg plants that have been potted on ready to be planted later

Stage clear and corner plants in

The new sign was being painted as we were potting on/planting.

Leonora painting the lovely new sign

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 20, 2023 in art, community, Cornwall, friendship, painting, photography, Postaday 2023, Redruth

Tags: The Grow Box, The Ladder

Writing, Spring and Pancakes

21 Feb

A different Tuesday today as I started a writing course while the lovely Mr S went off to Community Roots. It was held in The Writers’ Block at The Ladder and was lots of fun as well as being somewhat challenging. I was quite pleased with what I wrote. The venue is full of magical items to get one’s brain in action! One of my favourites was a beautiful paper sculpture of a forest and a man in a top hat and tails. Several people used this as a starting point for one of the exercises.

Two feathers in a cupboard were what set me off on one exercise.

One of our little border in the front garden is full of Spring.

It’s Pancake Day. Our savoury ones were stuffed with veggie chilli and the sweet ones wrapped around a banana, with a drizzle of maple syrup and topped with toasted slivered almonds – delicious.

Volunteering, Dahlias and Peggy Seeger

17 Sep

We’ve been out and it’s very late so please call back tomorrow for photos and words. 🙂

That was a very busy day. First we went to help paint the old Redruth Library which has been abandoned for sometime but is now undergoing change. It is to become a community space for The Writers’ Block, for creativity, for story telling and writing workshops, for drama and performance. A call was put out for volunteers to help paint the first story telling room so off we went. The pictures tell the start of the restoration of this room, preparation and starting to paint. I did work as well as taking photos! Permission was given for all photos to be shared.

Scraping

Preparing

Father and daughter painting

Mother and daughter painting

Wonderful colour was to be found at the National Dahlia Collection where we went late afternoon.

My favourite with a bee

5′ tall!

Display

The garden

The compost heap

The best was yet to come. We went to St Ives to see the wonderful Peggy Seeger. What a woman she is, still performing at 87, still the fierce feminist and activist. She was supported by her singer songwriter son, Neil and their last song which she said was her goodbye to us all, was her beloved Ewan MacColl’s goodbye to her and his family, “The Joy of Living.” I suspect there were few dry eyes in the house.