A Duck's Diary from the Jinney Ring Craft Centre

Just some of the stuff that I see here!



Wednesday 17 July 2013

Sneaking a peek...and 110 years

A hectic and fun weekend in the garden again this week - the weather is certainly making live more entertaining for us with lots and lots of visitors as well as some parties too.

This weekend we had a 60th party in the restaurant with neighbour Sue coming to celebrate with us in style. Sue chose a traditional English salad/picnic menu including a welcome drink of Cider punch.  The party was in the conservatory so we could see the proceeding including some great dancing later on - the music was great and everyone in the party mood!

In the garden marquee there was another party going on celebrating Bobbi's 50th birthday - so we celebrated 110 years all in one night - not bad.  The marquee party also enjoyed the English menu - it worked so well on a very warm night!  As the daylight ended so the candles were lit and the whole ambiance was pretty chilled out quite special.  We had a peek in but someone spotted us too

Sneaking a peek!

Enjoying the warm evening in the marquee
 
Sunday, the fun continued with another party in the gardens, this time to celebrate a very young life - this was a christening party for Jacob.  The Christening had been at Hanbury church so we heard the bells ring for him before they came down for food and fun.

While the staff were working in the gardens we managed to catch up with the news a bit, here are a couple tidbits:

Gina - one of the Chefs reporting seeing some of my colleagues holidaying in Zante - swimming in the sea would you believe it...they did not need to go so far for the good weather this year.
Mallards - Just about to play volley ball in Zante?
Caroline - has just been skydiving - we white ducks don't fly, so we can't image what possessed her - but she has raised money for charity so she is not completely mad... Bravo!

I'd be quacking too at this point!

Caroline - normally in a green shirt at JR
Sam - who supervises in the restaurant and runs a lot of the events front of house has just come back to work after two weeks off when she cracked her ribs -- she was not skydiving - just slipped in the shower - she clearly needs feet like mine!

Monday 8 July 2013

More fame.... and more friends!

This week we had yet more TV cameras in the Centre and we ducks got filmed yet again - the fame is quite going to our heads now!  This time it was the BBC with a team from "Escape to the Country" .  A couple were being shown some properties in Worcestershire and the Jinney Ring was being filmed as a place to visit and get involved in craft activities.  There was some filming in the restaurant with the regular painting group 'The Art Circle' and also quite a lot with in the woodwork craft unit where they make the Jigsaw trees.  Great fun, and at least we ducks were not expected to re-shoot our scenes, unlike the humans - after all we professionals are word perfect - quack, quack!!

The lovely weather has brought lots of extra visitors to the garden and also we have some new friends in the field....
Wally

Foal
The new additions are firstly Wally - a beautiful bay chap who has not stopped eating since he got here - he could not believe his luck when he saw our grass!  The Foal is only a year old and is equally partial to his grass.  When they first arrived they charged around the field with the resident herd of cows following on behind - we wondered what all the fuss was about but it was sheer exuberance!

The horses are here for the summer and it is good to see them.