There had been lots of human 'finger crossing' going on around the centre last week as we approached Saturday 4th August with the tents going up for the annual blues festival - and it paid off - the weather held out and was not bad (relative the summer we have 'not had'!).
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| Storm before the calm! Plenty of cover just in case! |
One stormy shower at about 2pm while the first act sang a song called "let it rain" caused everyone to run for cover - after that we banned songs about rain and had no more!
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| JR staff Ghislaine and Mick (Gate Keepers) sheltered from the rain in the pergola |
The music line up was terrific with 6 bands playing from 1pm to 11pm. To start the show there was a little rearrangement of schedule as larger than life Steve Steinhaus and his band had a last minute booking to play at the Olympic celebrations in Hyde Park - too good an opportunity to miss, we were very glad he came here first --- what a great sound!
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| Steiny's Blues - got the party started fast! |
We had some smashing visitors here for the day - many who have been before but also some new too.
Also some furry visitors - they were very well behaved and left us alone so we did not mind at all There was a gorgeous Labradoodle as well, who even featured in one of the songs - sadly did not get a picture!
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| Not sure he was pay full attention to the music! |
Overall a terrific day - lots of food and drink for everyone and plenty of good humour and cheer. We ducks got fed regularly by the visitors and we stayed up late partying, can't wait till next year!
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