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Morville Hall

April 17, 2011 by acornpig

Morville Hall, Sunday 17th April

First things first  – a ‘plug’ for the good people of Morville and their annual festival, being held over the three days of May bank holiday (30th April – 2nd May). Have a look at the  Morville Festival 2011 website where you will find details of the flower festival, garden fete and open gardens. I can highly recommend a visit – the cake alone is worth the journey!

Morville Hall

Now to news of our workday. As I was driving over to Morville today, with sun shining and blue skies, it struck me that I can’t remember having a day of bad weather at Morville. Morville Hall is a very impressive sight in any weather, and particularly fine in the sunshine.

We were warmly welcomed by our good friends, Chris and Sarah Douglas, who had prepared a list of gardening tasks for the group including planting lavender in the new formal garden, dry stone walling, erecting fence posts, hedge trimming and general garden tidying. After tea and biscuits we headed out into the garden to start work.

Planting in the new formal garden

Workday leader, Mags, kept us motivated with homemade maple syrup fudge and we were soon racing through the list of tasks.

Here’s me (below), doing some work for a change instead of taking photographs! Repairing the wall was a bit like a jigsaw puzzle – we were sure that all of the stones that had fallen from the wall were in the pile, we just had to work out what went where.

At the end of the day, we were served tea with a delicious spread of cakes (thanks Sarah!).

Wall repairs (me doing some work!)

Cake Oclock

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