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Guest Artist, Celtic Cross and Mud Maid

I spent much of the morning walking and talking in St Euny Graveyard with their Guest Artist, C, who is making rubbings of many of the gravestones. It was lovely to meet with someone new, socially distanced and in the outdoors, of course, and to discover that we have so much in common.

Walking back through the ‘new’ graveyard, I took a couple of photos. I love how this grave marker is built up on carefully chosen stones and granite chunks like those used in a Cornish hedge.

More work at the allotment this afternoon with the lovely Mr S constructing the beds in the cage and me shovelling compost. On the back of Sue’s truck, which still holds lots of the collected compost, is this sticker of her Mud Maid, a special feature in The Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Mud Maid, by Sue Hill to be found in The Lost Gardens of Heligan

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 4, 2021 in art, community, Photography, Postaday2021, Uncategorized

Tags: St Euny Churchyard, The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Long View, Reflection and New Cake Recipe

08 Jan

When the skies cleared at lunchtime, we headed out for our walk along part of the Flat Lode Trail. What a view of the sea we get from up there!

There were many puddles from the recent and the overnight rain and there were some pleasing reflections today.

I made the most delicious cake today! It’s the Heligan Pineapple Cake, easy to make, moist and full of fruit. I had no cherries so added ginger pieces which will come as no surprise to regular readers! I’ll add the recipe to my Recipes pages in the next couple of days.

Heligan Pineapple Cake

There is a special history of growing pineapples in Cornwall in the Gardens at Heligan. Follow this link for more information.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 8, 2021 in Uncategorized

Tags: Flat Lode Trail, Heligan Pineapple Cake, The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Supper, Day Lily and Knitting

19 Jul

Yet another beautiful day and yet another supper in the evening sunshine – a very simple veggie favourite of Roast Rainbow Vegetables with Halloumi.

Simple supper

Beside us in the border, today’s Day Lily.

Day Lily

We went to Heligan again last night to see 100: UnEarth by WildWorks, brilliant again and we saw the squares that I knitted for the rocket/torpedo. “The knitted torpedo stands by the Well at Heligan as part of the commemoration of the finish of WW1, 100 years ago. The torpedo was chosen as a symbol for the vast amount of knitting women and children did during WW1 and to commemorate the fact that women made many of the munitions used.”

the-knitted-torpedo-for-which-i-knitted-four-squares

My knitting as part of the rocket

The squares will all be re-stitched into blankets after the show.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 19, 2018 in Food, knitting, nature, Photography, Postaday2018

Tags: 100: UnEarth by WildWorks, Roast Rainbow Vegetables with Halloumi., The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Blackbird, Gate and 100: UnEarth

11 Jul

What an evening we have had at The Lost Gardens of Heligan where the WildWorks production, 100: UnEarth, is playing. Both the Blackbird and the gate were where we had our supper and then the Gallery is of the opening moments of this heart wrenching piece of theatre. If you are in Cornwall, please see this show. It tells of the end of the First World War through the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in a most contemporary way, a story of love and loss, of hope and despair, with moments of tears and moments of laughter and moments for the audience to share the things they want to remember and those they would rather forget.
From the programme, “100: UnEarth was the last work that Bill Mitchell conceived and created and is a fitting memorial to his unique imagination.” It is a beautiful piece and Bill’s spirit could be felt all the way round.

Blackbird wanting to share our supper

Interesting gate

Waiting for the play to start

The choir

Looking for the returnees

The band

Soldiers returning in 1918

Orpheus and Eurydice

Memories

My memory

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 11, 2018 in Cornwall, Photography, Postaday2018, theatre

Tags: Bill Mitchell, Orpheus and Eurydice, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Wildworks

Seed Head, Veg Trug and Knitting

17 Jun

After the mizzle this morning the Clematis seed heads were beautifully covered in little droplets.

Isn’t this just exquisite?

Our all-edibles trug is looking luscious! Various Lettuces, Thyme, Gives, Borage, Nasturtiums and tiny Violas, almost in flower, all ready for salads in the weeks to come.

I love the ferns underneath too, makes this a piece of art!

I have been knitting again – squares this time for the WildWorks’ production, “UnEarth” which will be in the Lost Gardens of Heligan in July. I have taken a couple of paragraphs from their blog that explain both the story and the reason for the knitting. See below the photo.

My first 4 squares, handed over today

“The show, which will be at The Lost Gardens of Heligan from 3rd to 22nd July, is a story of war, love, loss and hope. It explores what happens when war is over. It’s been co-commissioned by Heligan and 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary. 100: UnEarth forms part of 14-18 NOW’s 2018 season marking 100 years since the Armistice.

During WWI people back home were asked to do many things, work in factories, work the land and knit. They were asked to knit items to send to the troops overseas. Women were also tasked with working in munition factories. We’ve combined the knitting and the munition historical references and will be creating a knitted torpedo – an artwork that will feature as a part of the show.”

Afterwards, the squares will be restitched into blankets.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 17, 2018 in art, Beauty, Cornwall, knitting, nature, Photography, Postaday2018, theatre, Uncategorized

Tags: Sirdar, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, UnEarth, Wildworks

Stained Glass, James Fenton and A Gift of Flowers

26 Apr

We have a pretty little panel of stained glass that hangs in the kitchen window. This morning, before the blind was lifted, the early sun was shining through and lighting up the engine house.

There’s food for thought in this poem, The Ideal by James Fenton and I like it.

This is where I came from.
I passed this way.
This should not be shameful
or hard to say.

A self is a self.
It is not a screen.
A person should respect
what he has been.

This is my past
which I shall not discard.
This is the ideal.
This is hard.

Our lovely neighbour Sue came in for supper tonight and shared a photo of some remarkably beautiful flowers sent to her from Heligan in condolence and in the memory of her very special husband, Bill, who died recently and for whom I posted on 14th April.

Sue’s flowers from the staff at The Lost Gardens of Heligan

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 26, 2017 in art, Beauty, friendship, glass, Kindness, Photography, poetry, postaday2017

Tags: Bill Mitchell, ranunculas, The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Abandoned, Grass and Costume

31 Jul

1 The family left early this morning and as always, everywhere is too quiet and the expression on the monkey’s face says it all.

Where have they all gone?

2 I love the delicacy of these grasses against a rather grey sky.

Grasses and a grey sky

3 Claire, the lovely MD of the choirs I sing with, and the Musical Director of Wildworks has sorted her costume for the event at The Lost Gardens of Heligan on 3rd August and she looks just perfect. I’m still working on mine!

Claire in her 1914 outfit

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 31, 2014 in Beauty, nature, photography, Postaday 2014, Wildworks

Tags: 100:The Day Our World Changed, 1914 costume, The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Sally-Boots, The Heligan Giant and Swish

28 Mar

1 I finished the Sally-boots for Dan’s new daughter just as he finished our fence. We all feel pleased.

Sally-boots

2 Lucy has been working in the Lost Gardens of Heligan helping to restore The Heligan Giant with the sculptors, Sue Hill and her brother, Pete.

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3 Went to the Swish at Krowji with Lucy this evening and we both found things we can wear in Senegal. A Swish, for those who don’t know is a clothes swap.