You can probably tell that I have been busy as I have been very slack in writing this diary of late, there has been so much to do, so many visitors to meet and so much corn to enjoy... it seems to be over now (the rain has started and the gardens have been much quieter this week with the return to school of many of our playmates).
Here is a bit of a record of what has been going on since I last wrote....
The Norbury Theatre were here performing The Merry Wives of Windsor at the end of July. Fortunately the Jinney Ring has a garden marquee because it did rain during the performance on Saturday night - not just a little bit but a lot. The actors did really well raising their voices above the sound of the rain and the visitors were even better going down the garden in all that wet after they had been warm and wet fed in the restaurant! Everyone seemed to have a great time and the play was a huge hit for both the Saturday evening and the Sunday matinee.
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| A real farce! |
Next up we a corporate sports day and BBQ in the gardens - watching them do three legged races, egg and spoon races in our fields after enjoying a lovely BBQ did make us quack!
The now familiar sights and sounds of the Blues and Beer tents going up for the 5th festival in the gardens caused us to loose some sleep but we did enjoy the bands very much. This year it was a weekend festival with the big bands on Saturday and a couple of excellent local bands on Sunday as well as the winners of the W-Factor competition. Lots of beer, plenty of people and also a lot of dogs (all very well behaved though). The weather was unusually kind and it stayed dry so everyone seemed pretty happy and all the beer was drunk.
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| Boperator |
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| Stomp and Holler! |
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| Robert Hokum |
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| Too Tired! |
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| Between bands |
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| BBQ - Big Ron cooking the chicken! |
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| Sunday - W-Factor winners on stage |
This is going to be far to long a catch up so am stopping here and will catch up again tomorrow!
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