Sandringham and Westonbirt this year

[arbwork]

Went along and had a look in at both of this years carving events, Sandringham good but with not enough cash audience to make the auction at the end a good result for all the final pieces, some good works of art struggling to get starting bids of 100 /200 ! shame , 1 or 2 sold well. Westonbirt hopefully will be a cracking day today ( Monday) some fantastic works having finishing details put to them and with the auction at the end of the day. and of course the arboretum, not enough hours in one day to see it all.

Ps good presentation by Arbs at the show in the arena, not easy to be good at this type of work and be able to stand in front of a crown and give an interesting and understandable presentation of how, why, and the machinery used in the trade, interesting to see that ‘ friends of westornbirt’ have funded quite a few items of machinery used on site.

[janey]

Can you post some piccies of Westonbirt when you get back? I wanted to go, but being a poor, impoverished Benefits scrounger at the moment, I couldn't afford it

 

So piccies of all the beee-u-tiful carvings are the next best thing.