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Wedding, Water Lily and Wet Leaves

I conducted the loveliest Humanist Wedding Ceremony this morning, in a beautiful garden with Cornish mist mizzling and everyone smiling. It was personal and very moving and made even more special by the fact that a small group from The Suitcase Singers, one of the choirs I sing with, sang a number of most appropriate songs, chosen by the couple and beautifully arranged by our MD, Claire Ingleheart. Thank you to the singers who helped to make that a very special ceremony for everyone involved. Photos will follow later.

Two of our number invited us all back for lunch and that was really good too, to unwind with friends over a truly delicious meal and then to have a walk around their lovely and very productive garden. There was a Water Lily just opening on their pond. (Thank you, P and J, for the rhubarb!)

Water Lily

I love taking photos in the rain! I love how droplets collect and act as little magnifying glasses on the leaves. Do click on the photo and then zoom in – it’s like magic!

Water droplets

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 20, 2015 in Beauty, environment, friendship, Happiness, Humanist ceremony, nature, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Claire Ingleheart, Humanist Wedding Ceremony, The Suitcase Singers, water droplets

A Concert in Trebah Gardens

22 May

I mentioned a few days ago that The Suitcase Singers were to do a concert in aid of Dementia Uk in Trebah Gardens tonight. It has been fabulous! The weather was kind to us. The new amphitheatre was amazing with excellent acoustics and there was a brilliant appreciative audience of well over 100. Click on any photo in the gallery for detail and the caption. Happy days! Thanks to our lovely leader Claire.

Beautiful flowers?

Tree Ferns

The view from the house

Hanging out before the concert

Checking up on words

Before the concert – the warm-up in the mirror

Just been given a huge round of applause

Couldn’t resist this shot

From the path back up through the gardens

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 22, 2015 in Beauty, Dementia UK, environment, nature, photography, Postaday 2015, Trebah gardens

Tags: The Suitcase Singers

Singing, Choir-babies and Bluebells

14 May

1 We had the most amazing and magical session at Suitcase Singers this morning – a rehearsal for our concert next week in the very lovely Trebah Gardens in aid of Dementia UK.

Concert at Trebah Garden

2 Our Choir-babies are growing up!

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3 Grand-baby B had a lovely evening among the bluebells the other day and the photos came to us today.

Grand-baby B walking through the bluebells

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 14, 2015 in Beauty, Choir-baby, Dementia UK, environment, nature, photography, Postaday 2015, singing

Tags: bluebells, Dementia UK, The Suitcase Singers, Trebah Gardens

Window, Singing and A Poem

12 Mar

1 Getting held up in the traffic on the way to singing in Penryn this morning allowed me to get a photo of this lovely old window in Ponsanooth.

Stained glass window in Ponsanooth

2 L, who moved to Glasgow, visited choir this morning with her lovely boys. We sang the little one to sleep in M’s arms.

Sleeping Choir baby

3 With all the daffodils that we see as we drive around Cornwall at the moment and that I have been showing you, I thought this poem a good one to share.

To Daffodils

By Robert Herrick

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see

         You haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun

         Has not attain’d his noon.

                        Stay, stay,

                Until the hasting day

                        Has run

                But to the even-song;

And, having pray’d together, we

Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,

         We have as short a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

         As you, or anything.

                        We die

                As your hours do, and dry

                        Away,

                Like to the summer’s rain;

Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,

Ne’er to be found again.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 12, 2015 in architecture, Beauty, Choir-baby, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Ponsanooth, Robert Herrick, singing, The Suitcase Singers, To Daffodils

Singing, Tea-pots and Kindness

12 Feb

1 I went back to sing with The Suitcases this morning, only for an hour but, oh my, it did me good, though I was very tired by the end of the session. It was lovely to be so warmly welcomed back by my singing friends and a delight to see our choir babies again.

Choir baby E

2 Outside Miss Peapod’s Cafe we noticed this delightful use of teapots, all beautifully planted.

Teapot garden

3 This one speaks for itself. imgres-1

Choose kindness

Today, I remember my beautiful friend Kath, in whose memory I write this blog. It is her birthday.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 12, 2015 in Beauty, Choir-baby, friendship, garden, Happiness, Kindness, mosaic, photography, Postaday 2015, singing

Tags: Be kind, Miss Peapod's cafe, The Suitcase Singers

Party, Anemones and Christmas Tree

18 Dec

1 What a lovely way to spend a day! First singing all our favourites with The Suitcases then off all together for our Christmas lunch which was delightful.

Suitcases singing ‘Oxygen’

2 These anemones are grown locally and are the first of this season. I love their jewel colours, the fact that they were my Mum’s favourite flowers and that I always put them in a brass bowl that was hers – all seem just right somehow.

Cornish Anemones

3 This afternoon we decorated the tree, very simply this year, just lights and all things red – baubles, boxes and crackers.

Sparkling lights on the tree

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 18, 2014 in Beauty, flowers, Happiness, photography, Postaday 2014, singing, Uncategorized

Tags: anemones, Christmas tree, The Suitcase Singers

Choir-Babies, Baby Brother and Evening Sky

11 Dec

1 Singing this morning with The Suitcase Singers was a wonderful endorphin inducing and spirit lifting event! Not only did we have our resident Choir-baby E but Choir-baby T, his Mum and his baby brother came to visit from Glasgow! Singing was lovely and watching the children interact, a joy.

Three Choir-babies together

Look, this is my baby brother

2 Choir-baby T is three and very loving towards his Baby brother C.

A little kiss for C

3 Tonight’s sky was, very briefly, a delicate mauvey pink.

Beautiful sky

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 11, 2014 in Beauty, Children, Happiness, nature, photography, Postaday 2014, singing, Uncategorized

Tags: The Suitcase Singers

Singing, Felting and Carol Singing

04 Dec

1 We had three Choir-babies with us today though W is far from being a baby! It is such a delight to have youngsters growing up with singing and then singing with us.

Newest Choir Baby S

Choir Baby E

Mother and Daughter at choir

2 Tonight we sang carols in Falmouth finishing at The Poly where there was a craft fair. Just look at this beautiful felted work and pottery done by my lovely friend, N. It was a delightful evening.

Beautiful felted items

3 The choir scrub up well and performed beautifully!

Inglehearts and Suitcases singing Lully Lullay

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 4, 2014 in Beauty, Choir-baby, photography, singing

Tags: Falmouth Poly, The Ingleheart Singers, The Suitcase Singers

100: The Day Our World Changed – The Afternoon at Heligan

07 Aug

The afternoon at The Lost Gardens evoked the Heligan of the past beautifully with the laundry girls washing the sheets and putting them to dry on the lawn, the gardeners working hard in the kitchen garden and suddenly being told of the outbreak of war and that they would be needed. All the time strains of music could be heard from the local bands and our very own singers from Claire’s three choirs, brought together as the Ingleheart 100 for the day. Click on any photo for detail. Thank you to the lovely Mr S for some of the photos.

Mrs Barnicoat, the Housekeeper, speaking to the laundry girls

Working hard

Singing in the Sundial garden

Heligan gardeners

The gardeners being read the announcement of the war

The gardeners have just been told about the war

Thinking hard about whether to enlist

In the kitchen garden

Produce in the garden

Jack asking a passerby what his favourite vegetable is. ‘Apples’ replied the little boy

Messages of memory and loss

The 100 band entertains the crowds

Mrs Barnicoat chatting to a member of the audience

David in costume

Don’t the choir scrub up well?

Mingling while waiting to perform

My pal Sue and I, waiting for the call to sing

More of our beautifully turned out choir

and more!

Claire off to the stage as the last part of the day is about to begin with our singing

And we are on……

The next post will show the rest of the afternoon and evening as the tragic events of the war unfold.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 7, 2014 in Beauty, garden, History, nature, photography, Postaday 2014, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, theatre, Wildworks

Tags: 100 The Day Our World Changed, outbreak of World War 1, The Ingleheart 100, The Ingleheart Singers, The Riverside Singers, The Suitcase Singers

Knitting, Sailing and Sunshine

19 Jun

1 What a cracker of a day this has been! After an early trip to the osteopath, off to singing with The Suitcase Singers where five more wonderful knitters had their pieces finished for me to join to the growing Peace scarf, our contribution to Wool Against Weapons’ 7 mile scarf. I sang and joined and finished just in time for the last song, the very moving ‘Oxygen’, written by our wonderful leader, Claire Ingleheart, to honour our Suffragette sisters. It is 101 years ago today that the first Cornish contingent set off walking from Lands End to London to demand the vote for women. See this post for last year’s event.

The Suitcase Singers surrounded by our 21 pieces

Our knitting went around more than once

More pieces

Our roll of pieces by the Penryn River

2 After that rousing and exhilarating sing, I met the lovely Mr S and we went off for the final three hours of our sailing course and at the end of a truly gruelling session, we have both passed our RYA2! No photos! Too busy!

3 This evening I have laid out our 21 pieces in the evening sunshine in our garden and rolled it all up ready to be collected and taken to Stroud tomorrow. I have marked the end and the beginning with Purple, White and Green ribbons to further honour our Suffraggette sisters with the inscription – “Knit, Natter and Sing Redruth, Cornwall” Hopefully they will help us to identify our bits of the scarf in photos from 9th August when the seven miles of knitting will be spread out from Aldermaston to Burghfield.