A Saturday off work so I decided to visit to The Chestnut Centre a small wildlife park that specialises in Otters and Owls but also takes in injured and abandoned wildlife.
The round trip would be about 70 miles but I was soon distracted just a few miles from home.
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| Painting the phone box. |
As I drove through the local villages of Plumley and Lower Peover (pronounced "peever")
I enjoyed one of those wonderful serendipity moments.....
.....a Scarecrow Festival.
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There is a Best Kept Village competition and this was the theme taken up by Lower Peovers residents.
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| The grass was getting vacuumed..... |
.....and the trees were being dusted.....
.....the village sign gets a polish.....
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| .....and even William and Kate made a visit |
The people of Lower Peover had also opened up their gardens to the public.
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| These were a bit scary...the one in front was swinging to and fro..... ..... took me a moment to realise she was on a swing. |
As I left the I was delighted to see a scarecrow in a field delivering an Ice Cream to a mechanic.
It was all a bit surreal but wonderful to see.
A great community effort... well done Lower Peover.
The post about the Otters will have to wait until tomorrow.
11 comments:
this was fun and funny! my favorite is the maid with the vacuum (and the attitude!) :)
Those scarecrows are BRILIANT..... Ace pics, top banana!
You and I will wait before the Otters, meanwhile, I fell out off my old chair chuckling at the best show that I've ever seen.
HI Andrew..somebody pick me up of the floor where I have been laughing like a fool....
This is the funniest and creative!!
I love the vacuum lady, and the lady on the ladder...but all just so funny !!
I can't imagine how much work went into this though ..very cool!!
Grace
That was pretty neat. I too would have got distracted.
I would be tickled pink to come across such a display. How very creative and clever and I will echo your sentiments, well done the people of Lower Peover and thank you Andrew for sharing such delightful photographs.
That is brilliant........makes a well dressing look a bit tame.
What a hoot. Love the scarecrow dusting the leaves.
What a terrific find!!What interesting residents, both real and imaginary! The people behind the creation of the scarecrows have my total attention and delighted applause. Great community spirit shown! The otters can wait. Thanks to you for sharing this unique community project. Ann
Hi Andrew, thanks for the visit to Perth. I'm a huge fan of birds too, I have so many wild birds that I feed every morning, ranging from Corellas, Galahs, Lorrikeets,Doves and many more in between! Looking forward to seeing more of your pictures too. Btw love the scarecrows,bet they had more than one person doing a double take haha!
English eccentricity at its best Andrew.
A fantastic post.
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