Weddings galore and ....more ducks with a difference

Matt and Alex have been regular visitors to the gardens and feed us, so we were a bit delighted to see at how well they "scrubbed up"  for their wedding on August 17th .  The weather was not brilliant but they spent a little time with us before going inside for their weeding breakfast and dancing.  They are very much "Northern soul" fans sot he music was really chilled out as we swam along with their dancing.

The following week a huge marquee went up in the gardens pretty much at the same time a lots of sculpture arrived.  The annual sculpture trail is something we look forward to all year - it gives us a chance to live with art for about a month.  This year it is even more exciting as a lot of it is on the water so we get to sleep with it as well....

We are however a little unhappy about the number of additional ducks that are getting attention - for example this big boys are considerably bigger than us and do draw the eye!  (Fortunately they are not eating our corn!)

It turned out that the marquee was being put up for Karl and Kate's wedding which was a really luxurious affair.  The family all pitched in on the Friday and decorated the marquee - the chosen colour was blue - for Birmingham City it turned out  (Bride's choice!).  They put some lovely lanterns up and the whole thing looked wonderful. 

There was not much football going on on the 24th but the children did play croquet - however I think we have most of the balls in the pond now!  The party was fantastic from start to finish and the Bride and Groom were lovely, both to look at and in nature, we hope to see them lots in the future.

Karl and Kate - our fiends for life!

For the two days after the wedding there was a wedding fayre in the marquee so we saw lots more people, particularly as it was also bank holiday weekend., my goodness we were 'quackered' at the end of the period...but there is more to come yet.