A wagon, a pipe organ and some daisies
Hello m' daisies, do come in!
The car was not the only set of wheels I picked up this week.
Check out this wagon out we found for free .
A kind lady had left it with a 'free to a good home' note outside her garden gate. When she spotted the kids and I descending on it like seagulls, she came out to have a chat and show us how to fold down the sides and take the handle off. We are thrilled with it, and the lady was happy as she was reluctant to take it to the tip.
Here some pictures from a little walk in Falmouth town this week. The flag bunting is out on the high street -
Falmouth High Street
Most people walk straight through the high street, but if you go exploring, there are lots of little 'Opes' - tiny, hidden side streets full of independent cafes, pubs, craft, vintage clothes and book shops.
The church in the town centre is a handsome one -
King Charles the Martyr (Front)
(Back of church) Falmouth Docks in the distance
The day I visited I could hear someone practicing the organ. I know I have at least one organ music expert that frequents this blog, so I wonder if they can identify the piece of music? -
The high twiddley bits are all good and well, but pipe organs are at their best when the big basey sounds rumble the old stones. This would make a better video on a dark, ominous, winters day, when the sea fog keeps on rolling and rolling in and the kraken out in the bay awakes...
On to the daisy show... Oxeyes dasies (Leucanthemum vulgare) can be seen all over the grassy road verges. The council have allowed more no-mow strips this year. Oxeyes are also commonly known as 'Mayweeds' and 'Moon Daisy's'. They are the UK's largest member of the daisy family.
Above: Oxeye Daisies and Monkey Puzzle Trees at Tremough
With strong links to divination in France, they would be used for
romantic predictions, and this is where we apparently get the modern day
children's game 'he loves me, he loves me not' from.
Above: Oxeyes at Long Mizzle
We have our own little patch, which started as just one plant, four years ago. Oxeyes are clump forming perennials that prolifically spread via rhizomes and seed. It is easy to see how they are listed on the Invasive Plants List in the United States. (A European native, they were introduced to the US as an ornamental plant in the 1800s)
One word of warning, other than the prolific spreading....
they do unfortunately smell like cat piss! ... or gone off emulsion paint.
This I discovered when I brought some into the house and popped them in a jar. For days we thought the local tom cat had been in strutting his stuff, until we worked out where the stench was coming from!
This weekend, in between rain showers, I will be getting garden busy. Top on the list of plant care: Tomatoes, french beans, cucumbers and chillies. It always amazes me to see how busy blogger Cherie has been up to in her super production garden.
What are you up to? Please send gossip.
Lulu xXx
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congrats to the new "bollerwagen" - what a great and useful find! your little one in it looks like a pic from a victorian story book :-D
ReplyDeletefalmouth seems like a town i would spend happily a holiday week in.......
leucanthemum vulgare - wiesenmargerite - makes great impact at long mizzle!
it´s very common here too. on every patch of meadow it blooms in late mai and early june. on my gardens "wild meadow" too - but its long gone now.
i´d trim the hedges today..... and we have more strawberries everyday then we can eat!
happy sunday! xxxxx
'Bollerwagen' - I like that! Our daisies were late this year, along with the foxgloves, due to a cold snap we had in April. Unfortunately our strawberries are always long gone before Wimbledon...when we see lots of mouthwatering strawberries and cream on TV! We must have an early variety... or they get too hot in the pit. You enjoy your lovely strawbs Beate. Lulu xXx
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ReplyDeleteThat wagon was a terrific find and will be well used, I think. I like the look of Falmouth - lots of interesting little places to discover. A field of daisies does look beautiful - such happy flowers. I finally got round to potting on a Fatsia but still have to plant my new rose and pot on some hydrangeas too (if the weather allows me to!). They can wait a little longer if I don't get round to it...
Have a good week.
Best wishes
Ellie
Hello Ellie, I agree, daisies look happy! We are so chuffed with the wagon. Now, I do like a good Fatsia. I look forward to seeing it, along with your new rose. Hope you've managed to squeeze some gardening in between the showers this week. Lulu xXx
DeleteI've been to Falmouth loads of time and never realised there were little streets off the main one so next time I go I shall explore in more detail.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking I should change my car soon but like you I love the one I've got and she has been so reliable - what if I get a newer one and it's nothing but trouble!
I am hoping to get out in the garden tomorrow and I want to go to Morrissons and see what plants they've got as I have some gaps to fill.
Yes, it always feels like a bit of risk with a new car. It's not completely new but luckily I have a couple years parts warranty left on it. I wonder if you've been up the old high street in Falmouth? I thoroughly recommend the ginger cake at Stones Bakery! There are lots of hidden opes. One leads to Beerwolf Books and a little delhi. Another leads down towards a big ship's figurehead and the Chain Locker Pub (or pirate pub as I call it) which overlooks the harbour. Hope you had fun plant hunting. Lulu xXx
DeleteHi Lulu, Love that photo of the bunting in Falmouth! There’s nothing quite as cheery as a daisy (unless he loves you not, or as you say, you get too close with your sniffer!). I always head off into the side streets wherever we visit somewhere new - it’s usually where things get interesting! x
ReplyDeleteFalmouth really likes to go to town with its summer bunting! :) I daren't try 'he loves me, he loves me not' with those stinky ones :0 I'll save it for the little lawn daisies. I think photographers like your good self naturally suss out the side streets, back streets and go for the off-road option :) Lulu xXx
DeleteBless your little cockles. Thanks for the mention... I have trailer envy.
ReplyDeleteThank you Cherie, you're welcome. I was thinking you could just load it up with all your garden produce please. Lulu xXx
Deletethat little trailer is fantastic, the kids are going to have so much fun and could trail pets round the garden (or you) in it or even sleep in it (does it have a brake? ..lol) . Couldn't hear the organ music as we have torrential rain drowning out all sound and I'm partially deaf so pointless pursuing it really you see, but I could hear pigeons not sure if they are on your end of t'internet or mine. That field of daisies is spectacular, I want some (even if they do stink) and Falmouth looks a pretty little place for a visit so will go on my list of one-day-I-will-go-there places. Betty :)
ReplyDeleteWe did have to do a couple of turns round the block in that wagon :) Me pulling :0 I chuck them out going downhill (and it is very hilly around here) ... no brakes you see :0 Sorry, the audio's not great in that video. Next time I'm storm through the church door ;) I'd say Falmouth's not as quirky or funny as Brighton, but it's still nice for a little womble. Lulu xXx
DeleteEnjoy your new car, though it's often hard to say goodbye to the old one and, no doubt, many memories. Love to see the daisies and other flowers growing wild. And what a great wagon find!
ReplyDeleteAll good wishes Lulu. Hope you didn't mind me dunking my biscuit ~ Mike.
Thank you Mike, lots of happy memories indeed. Now I don't understand why tea and biscuit dunking is deemed to be socially unacceptable... It is the only, proper way to eat biscuits! Have a great week. Lulu xXx
DeleteHi Lu, the music in the first video is a part of Choral(e) No 3 in A minor by Cesar Franck. Franck, a famous Belgian wrote three chorales for organ which are one of the cornerstones of the organ repertoire. Should you have a bored moment there are quitr a few good performances to be seen on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteIt's quite a respectable sized instrument. Here's a link to the specification (details of the organ) in the National Pipe Organ Register. https://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=D04831
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I knew you'd recognized the music Martin!!! Thank you so much :) I have just checked it out on You Tube. Looks like a bit of a beast of a piece to play. King Charles the Martyr puts on free Saturday recitals. I have been to piano and violin ones, but not an organ one. If I go inside again, I'll try to get some pictures. Maybe they'd let me play some 70s prog rock on it (?). Hope you are well. Lulu xXx
DeleteI don't see why not. You'd be surprised and amazed at some of the things that are played on the organ these days and 70s prog rock is definitely up there. Be warned; I might dig out a few links!
DeleteI love the daisy flower shape and have oxeyes in my garden too - they've never really taken over coz our garden is a little too shady for their liking. I was interested to see the bunting - instead of hanging down in little flags - they have all been sewn together to make a 'sail' - not seen that before :)
ReplyDeleteHi Kate, yes it is the first time I have seen this stitched together new bunting. (At the other end of town, they still have the traditional hang down type) I quite like the shade and patterns it casts. It would be quite nice for my garden patio, which gets so hot in the height of summer, you could fry an egg on it! Take care, Lulu xXx
DeleteWhat's the new car called?
ReplyDeleteLove the festival trolley, what a fab freebie. The best way to get illicit beer into a festival is hiding it under a sleeping child in one of those and stringing so many solar powered fairy lights across the top so secutity are too dazzled to search you...not that I'd ever do anything like that...haha!
Falmouth looks lovely, I do like a hidden away back street.
After reading about your daisies I went out and had a sniff of mine, you're not wrong! xxx
Hello Vix, the new car will speak to me when she (or he) is ready ;) Now that's a cracking idea for contraband festival smuggling! :) And of course I trust you wouldn't ever try such a thing ;) I've been as festivals and seen some really blinged up wagons, with sheep skin rugs, cup holders, canopies and handfuls of little children asleep in them. Lulu xXx
DeleteWow! The trolley was a lucky find. It will come in useful for all sorts of things. X
ReplyDeleteThank you Jules :) I always feel like a bag lady. Now I can be a crazy trolley wagon lady! Hope you are well. Lulu xXx
DeleteLovely post Lulu. I remember a book I read several years ago called The Bellwether Revivals which is set in Cambridge and begins with some haunting organ music.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip about the cat's piss too.
And the story of the fabulous trailer. You have such a great blog. I love it. X
Oooh, that book sounds nice and moody Jane! Thank you m'luvellie xXx
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