A Duck's Diary from the Jinney Ring Craft Centre

Just some of the stuff that I see here!



Friday 14 August 2015

Catch up with the summer

Well , so much for my good intentions of writing every week - it has been so busy we have not had time to put webbed foot to keyboard!

If you would like a bit of a catch up as to what we have been seeing here in the gardens here it is....

The 7th BLUES FESTIVAL took place on the last weekend in May - this was a bit earlier this year so should have given us a clue just how busy the summer is going to be.  The weather was reasonably kind to humans and ducks alike and the music was great.  We didn't try the beer but it sold out so must have been good!

We loved Dave Migden and Twisted Roots - what a treat!

Steve Ajao and the Giants - they were big lads -- and they could quack a tune!

 Trev Bambridge - he agreed to compare as well as play on Friday night and Sunday - our own very special star!
At the end of June it was time for the second ever folk festival - this time it was bigger and used the same stage as the Blues - the Music was very different though including some artists on there way to or from Glastonbury (same weekend) we often heard the term 'Glast-Hanbury' used!
The Leylines were fab!

We love Becky and Bababjack - at last we managed to get together and have them play here!

Foreign affair - a breath of fresh air!
What a couple of great festivals - if you would like to see the reviews have a look at
http://www.slapmag.co.uk/Slap-Issues/Issue-49-July-2015.pdf  Blues - Page 47

http://www.slapmag.co.uk/Slap-Issues/Issue-50-August-2015.pdf Folk - Page 27

The photos above have all mainly been taken by Graham Munn - many thanks

Over the course of the two festivals we saw so many people, so many pets, so much cider and beer and of course the Jinney Ring staff did not stop moving, especially the Chefs!  Happily we also had plenty of corn thrown our way - come back next year....

There was also a bit of bird news around the festivals - one of my girl friends decided to make the most of the hay bales that were kept in the bar tent between festivals and build a superb soft nest underneath the beer stillages.
Beautiful nest
She then laid 6 eggs and started to sit on them - it was a few days later when the JR team were getting ready for the Folk festival that she was discovered.  Unfortunately the nest could not stay in place as she would have been soaked with beer (and frightened by all the people), so her eggs were taken to the incubator and about 3 weeks later 5 out of the 6 eggs hatched into gorgeous yellow ducklings (one of them is a magpie duck).  A happy result for the  'beer tent duck'.  The ducklings are now out and about in the gardens all fit and well.