What a jam packed weekend we’ve just had!
The Landlord’s Lunch and AGM on Saturday was well attended
with over 50 shareholders who were treated to a humorous report of the past 12
months by the chairman of the board, Chris Eldon Lee. One of the founding board members, John
Hughes spoke about the visit from HRH The Duke of Gloucester and Charlotte gave
both hers and Ben’s reports as Ben was too poorly to come to the meeting (he is
feeling much better now!).
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| Chairman of the Board, Chris Eldon Lee |
In the afternoon, we were treated to a performance by Sally
Tonge and Chris Eldon Lee called “Sheep Tales”. This was an extract of a stories
and songs created from a selection of oral histories taken from shepherds and
sheep farmers from all over the country.
In the evening, we held our annual Barn Dance. We had just
under 100 people dancing along to local band The Shropshire Heroes and enjoying
a Hog Roast and some local ale too.
On Sunday, it was our Spring Celebration. By 7.30am stall holders were arriving to set
up their pitch, volunteers were scurrying around the place getting everything
ready for the day ahead and…the sun was shining!
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| Splat the Rat |
We created a “village green” set up where the local
producers stalls surrounded a central play area, where children tunnelled through
haybales, had a go at Splat the Rat, threw quoits and hunted for Easter
eggs.
The lambs were in the marquee, giving children the chance to
get up close to them and there were newly hatched chicks dozing under a heat
lamp too.
Faces were painted, wellies were wanged and cannons were
fired.
It was all go and full of happy squeals of laughter…right up
until the tiny downpour we had right at the end, which was accompanied by thunder
and lightning…
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| Baking pizzas in our Clay Oven |
Despite the thunderstorm, people stayed on to finish up
their clay animals or to have one last pizza from the clay oven, but come 4 o’clock
the day was over.
Everyone trundled home with a smile on their face – perhaps a
bit soggier than when they first came out, but smiling none the less.
