Tuesday 23 October 2012

Charity fund raising!

We at the Walled garden have started an annual tradition of having a 'Charity Fun Day' every year in October to raise awareness and money for the disease MS - Multiple Sclerosis
"Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological condition which affects around 100,000 people in the UK. Most people are diagnosed between the ages of 20-40, but it can affect younger and older people too. Almost twice as many women have MS as men. "
Last year (2011) Was our first fundraising day and all our days have themes. Last year was a pirate theme! We had pirate hats, skull and cross flags, treasure hunts, pirate duck races and a range of other things including face painting and BBQ style burger stalls.


Our treasure hunt was a wild success with all the children, they had to follow clues through out the garden from the different animals and garden gnomes to find Jolly Jack and his pirate boat! Once they found him they had to go back to the stall and collect their prizes and gold coins! There was also a costume competition for the best pirate outfit! 
We had all the normal things you get at fundraisers like riff raff stall, food stalls, raffles and they were all greatly successful for out first fund raiser! 

Our volunteers from WWOOF helped us out organising and carrying out the day. We couldn't have done it with out them! We raised round about £350! Which is a great donation for the charity!

Long time no post...

In November of 2010 (It's been a little while since our last update, we've just been so busy!) one of Jenny and Derek's daughters accidentally bought the Walled Garden two pot belly pigs. They were grumpy, smelly, fat and quite frightening but also ended up being lovable pets. They were given the names of Rose-Mary and Thyme and they were the biggest pain in the necks. To get them home we had to drive 20 miles to borrow a trailer (because we hadn't expected to be buying anything at the sale.) and it took a full hour to get them in to it! They were loud and angry but once we tempted them with food they were our biggest admirers. Sadly after the winter in the summer of 2011 we lost the friendliest pig, Rose-Mary. It was a big loss because we all loved her and used to hand feed her but she was old and lame and one day she just gave up. Thyme was very distraught but she was going blind and she too was getting old, she kept getting ill as well. She lasted the next winter but in the spring of this year, Thyme had to be put down by the vet, it was the most humane thing to do for her.
We never got new pigs, I don't think we'd find pigs as good as those two again to be honest.