Diamond are for ever...

Sunday the 1st September was a very special day for Alec and Vera - they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in the gardens here with lovely luncheon in our garden marquee.  They had invited lots of friends to celebrate with them - some of whom had been at their wedding 60 years ago.

Starting off with some Pimms and finishing with Prosecco for a toast the whole event was extremely civilised and lots of laughter ensued.

After this we were back to another wedding on the 7th September - Lynn celebrated getting married on the same day as here 50th birthday.  They opted for a really chilled out party with very little formality.

Lynn and Dave with a couple of 'guests' from this years sculpture trail.

Lyn underwent a knee operation a couple of weeks before the big day - but still managed a dance.  We hope to see them both again very soon, a lovely couple.

The sculpture trail is now being put away and people are collecting the pieces that they have bought, it will be odd to have the gardens to ourselves again.  We are tremendously lucky here though - how many ducks get to live with art like this for a month each year?

Also finishing this week was the QuackArt competition (named in our honour of course!).  There were about 60 pieces of art entered into the competition and the judges found it hard to shortlist.  The shortlisted items were then exhibited for our visitors to vote for their favourite by class so there were 6 classes. (254 people voted in this).  Our judges (Photographer Martin Strivens, Jinney Ring Artist Michael Salt and Charity representative Jane Roberts from Worcester Snoezelen then had the task of choosing an overall winner.

"There''s two kids watching me" by Sue Wilson was the overall winner.

We hope to see Sue getting her trophy presented here very soon and will get a picture for the diary.

All of the entry fees for this competition are going to the Worcester Snoezelen charity and we are all very grateful to entrants, visitors and judges for their support for this exhibition.