Easter Egg Hunt 2016

EASTER EGG HUNT 2016

It was a glorious Spring day for the Easter Egg hunt at the allotments on 20th March 2016 . The children were out in full force in anticipation of finding lots of eggs. Magda had all the kids working together on the straw lady preparing her painted nails and all for the annual burning ceremony to say good bye to the Winter and hello to Spring. Afterwards some of the gardeners stayed around for a barbecue.

Painting the straw lady 

The girls working hard beautifying the straw lady

Bright red nails!!!!

Nice face

She's all ready

Cutie

Ian making sure every thing is painted brown including himself.

Happy Days lots of eggs

The kids were very civilised and shared the eggs equally

Arthurs collection.

Mini eggs for a mini man.

Louise and Elizabeth hard at work on the herb garden.

Lou spring cleaning the LOO!!! 

There she goes

Kids shouting "die" straw lady. 

All the fun over for another year.

Spring has Sprung

The first event of 2016 got off to a great start with sunshine after 4 months of rain! While the sun shone, the lads shovelled compost and filled in the old sand pit, mulched around trees and replenished some raised beds. The ladies tidied up the fruit trees, fruit bushes and hedges with a light prune and some weeding. 

Fruit trees pruned to perfection

Some TLC for the raspberries, the hedge and Daisy

A well deserved lunch

Some nutritious mulch for the apples.

Everyone had a great morning and worked up a good appetite. Work all complete in time for lunch and afternoon naps.

Here's to a great year and a bumper crop of fruit.

Lorna and Fidelma