Sneak Preview of shiney's Open Day

Just popping on briefly. Thanks for your good wishes . It was fairly chilly and windy today but pretty busy.

I've just done a quick tot up of the money and we have just equalled last year's takings for the whole weekend :yess: so tomorrow is all extra

 

Kristen, it was good meeting you and the others.

It kept just as busy right up to closing time (one of the neighbours said the parked cars covered almost half a mile of road ) and Mrs shiney was very pleased with the amount of plants that were sold. Whilst a group of helpers got everything tidy and ready for tomorrow (today now) Mrs shiney spent an hour reorganising the plant sale area and bringing out new plants from around the place. With the amount of foot traffic around the plant sales area the lawn will take months to recover!

I haven't checked how many of the plants that you, John and GCQ brought have been sold but I know that most of the veggie plants are gone. Mrs shiney thanks you for the two big tom plants which are certainly well advanced with all those trusses on them . I'll get them settled in properly on Monday.

I've just checked the weather forecast for today (it's only dropped to 12C at the moment) and it's forecast to be a bit warmer with little chance of rain, but windier.

i'll have a bit of a rest before getting ready for the fray. :D

 

Many thanks to you and your lovely wife shiney, for making me and Mrs JWK so welcome and providing us with the excellent lunch. We enjoyed the tour and meeting Kristen and GCQ as well.

Your garden is a credit to the two of you, what a great deal of hard work over the years to build it into such a lovely place. I can't imagine how long it takes you to plan and organise the open day, the charity will do well again I'm sure.

Thanks for the plants too, I've got Mrs shiney's alpine display in pride of place on our patio now

Kristen, thanks for the canna seeds! I wonder if I should try sowing some of them now, is it too late?

Finally it was humbling to meet my match in the cake eating dept with GCQ's partner

 

Thanks again everyone

John, it was great meeting all of you. The cakes were very popular and lasted to closing time on Sunday even though some people tried to eat all of them .

Mrs shiney thanks all of you again for the plants that you brought. The plant sales went very well and I reckon that we took about £1,500 for them.

The total that the charity will get is somewhere around £3,600 . Fortunately someone has access to a money counting machine as I reckon we have about £1,000 in small change . We should have the exact figure in a week's time but I don't think I'm far out in my calculations.

Sunday was a lot warmer than Saturday so people tended to sit around longer (had to scrape up more chairs) and the atmosphere was very good. Some people got chatting to others sitting around them and stayed for a few hours - spending more money on tea and cakes

It just remains for us to get the raffle drawn and then I have to contact all the winners (about 40 prizes) for them to come and get them.

Oscar enjoyed CAT-aloguing the books

 

Thanks Melinda ,

How did your day go? Would you do it again?

 

Wow Congratulations Mr & Mrs shiney..!!!:yess: I am sorry not to have been able to come, but no car this weekend so kind of put an end to going anywhere at all..!! :DOH:So glad that some GCers made it though. It was certainly worth all your hard work, I reckon your locals have it in their diaries for a good day out too..!!! ell done Mr & Mrs shiney..!!