25/06/12 Olympic Torch

We decided to take our Beeston in Bloom banner to part of the torch route and see what photos we could get. Angela managed to find out where the handover on Beeston Hill was going to be and we managed to get a photo with Paul Smith [from Doncaster] before his torch was lit



there was a good turn out and a brass band playing at Sunnyview Manor - the atmosphere was really good but unfortunately it was all over for us by 9am. We took a few more pictures with our banner



this would have been really good if I had noticed that Susan was standing in front of the B on the raised bed - I still quite like it though.


After breakfast at St Mary's we went to look at the new troughs at Tommy Wass crossroads. They had suffered in the high winds at the weekend but we have our fingers crossed that they will perk up a bit if we get some more decent weather.

The we collected the planter Linda had been storing for almost a year and took it along with soil and plants and positioned it outside the vets on Dewsbury Road. We were really please with the way it turned out.



We did a lot of weeding as well [4 big bin bags of weeds and rubbish] - judging is next Monday and there are a lot of jobs to do in very little time.


Sara

16/06/12 Working Party

I did attend a working party on 11/06/12 honest [but I either didn't take any photos or they are on my other camera] however I managed to be unavailable for this one [again - bad bloomer].




I did manage to collect Linda and the plants and deliver them to the cardinal triangle bed for planting before I dashed off. There were loads of them and I had a boot full, some on the back seat and Linda had a couple on her knee. I don't know how long it took them to plant everything! [This photo is the right way round in my photo manager, Don't know why blogger has decided to put it sideways - however on a more positive note a few tweaks to the settings have allowed me to put paragraphs in].



The bed was looking lush, there were some beautiful foxgloves [that neither of us remembered being planted] and the grasses looked great.



And at this end of the bed the bushes that looked half dead earlier in the year had revived nicely. There was also quite a lot of space for more planting - I was getting worried that a lot of the plants would have to be carted home again before I walked up this end. It's a good job Susan, Edna and David were coming to help put them in.

Sara

09/06/12 Beeston Festival

I was AWOL again [it's getting to be a bad habit] for Beeston Festival so Linda has once again obliged with some photos she took. Although the weather was mixed [showery and windy but not torrential rain] the stall looks very cheerful and Vivienne and Edna look happy. They took over £200 but there will be the cost of the stall and the plants to be deducted from that. Our local MP, Hilary Benn stopped by to say hello. Angela and Christine were on different stalls. And this is the recycled greenhouse made from empty pop bottles. They did try to build one last year but the ground was so hard that they had trouble getting the wooden supports in the ground. It looks like the ground was softer this year as they managed to finish it. Sara [I've put lots of returns and spaces in but blogger seems to want to bunch everything up - it's very annoying]