Our friends at the wonderful Haeckels are using some of our herbs and plants...

 

 

To make Smudge Sticks...

 

 

Which are "Traditionally used for rituals that cleanse rooms with their smoke, carrying a smudge stick around a room or home is said to purify and bless that space".

 

Available now at the Haeckels shop.

Late Summer Open Day

The usual suspects...

 

 

The return of the Grumpy Chef...

 

 

 

 

Fancy coffee...

 

 

 

 

Live music including the wonderful Sally Ironmonger...

 

 

 

 

Jewellery stall...

 

 

 

And produce sale...

 

 

OPEN DAY 23rd AUGUST 2pm - 5pm

Open Day Saturday 23rd August 2pm - 5pm

Here's what The Boss says...

 

"Open Day coming up Saturday 23rd August 2pm to 5pm strong tea, proper coffee, great cakes and garden produce...
 

We also have musician Sally Ironmonger performing songs about the garden as part of Folk Weeks community project...
 

Come and see us and join in the fun".

Pictures by Timothy S. Winkwworth

 

Another sunny day has made a start

A swift can reel and pivot 'gainst the sky

The distance sees the gulls pursue their art.

 

An insubstantial cloud through which to fly -

A vapour trail disintegrates again -

A pigeon flutters past, his luck to try.

 

A "normal" sort of scene, then, in the main

The rooftops are reflecting summer light

A siren wailing past reveals the strain

That waited in obeisance through the night.

 

                                                          K Pettitt.

All To-marrow's Parties...

 How it went down...

 

Nyle...

 

Sienna...

 

John Doggerel and the Bad Poets... 

 

 

Boo Forever...

 Liotia

MC Hi-Vizz and DJ Payback

 

And they all had a good time...

 

Big thank you to everyone who came along.

Mini Music Festival...

Five local bands

Return of the Finnish Disco

Bring Your Own picnic/booze/blanket (no glass please)

Wristbands a tenner each for the day, available from The Garden Gate, 07714 742456, or on the gate

Limited parking - try to come on the Loop or by bicycle...

 

 

Mondo Cane...

 

On reading magazine today

It's all about the 'dog' -

Receptors in the brain, they say,

Can lead through any fog!

 

The three dogs that I know of, though,

Could sniff their way around 

The darkest night and deepest snow

That really could be found.

 

But most of all they like to sniff

where fellow dogs have been -

I pull them on, am feeling stiff

And not much part of scene...

 

Now Zena's dog has found dislike

And tends to bark at me -

I wonder if my name was Mike,

He'd act contrarily?

 

                                                  KMP