Mission Accomplished

Today was the 1st day ever that we have saddled up our 5 horses and ponies and taken  them for a ride, thought I was being a bit ambitious and wonder if there would be any disasters along the way but no it all worked well, so will tackle it again sometime soon.

Season opening of the Le Bons Bay Library Shop

yummy dainty afternoon tea!

Jade and Willow serving a customer

Carol the hot drinks Lady (Thanks Carol for the fine job)

The men doing what men do best!

The extended family from the Hall

a sample of work by Fran and Allie

beautiful silk and merino felted scarves

still empty seats!

what a cute little building,how lucky we are to have the use of it

Cuties

OMG a rare photo with me in it

Lemon syrup, lime syrup, mint sauce,dried herbs,walnuts free range eggs

Carols very cool sock man Raoul

Allies Bags. Brees bracelets 

a delightful shelf of handmade goodies

We were meant to do this last year when we first opened but didn't get around to it....one thing and another I guess, but we said it was a must do this year so Mum and I have been busy the last few days getting the shop all set up and after a bit of a bad weather start to the day the clouds cleared and we had a great time. We served a posh afternoon tea to all those who came through the door,nice china cups and lovely sweeties inside. It was so well received and people seem to love what we were doing,lots of nice comments and quite a few purchases were made, in fact well worth it for a first day open...Roll on the summer hope we can keep the shop stocked up enough....check out the pictures I took today they show what a great time everyone was having...the kids were behind the counter most of the day and did a fab job...great job team!

Say it with photos..........

Le Bons Bay School was lucky enough to have a french documentary maker to come to the school and we took her down to the beach to the penguin caves as she was doing her documentary on the white flippered penguin...Lucy for us and her we found a couple of penguins on there nests to show her. Zoe got to do an interview with her and the camera man, so will be cool to see how things end up when the filming is completed

Some of the penguin  followers, Miss Hately there in the shot

What a tight spot to nest in1

John Stuart doing his bit by explaining the trapping programme

Our lovely little Dog susu, who this week ran away and didn't come home for nearly three days...and when she did she had a massive cut on her little leg, that had to be stitched, it was rather nasty and got infected and needed another trip to the vet, but we would do anything for this little girl as we all missed her when she wasn't there

Pony Club 

Thats a bit of a sad face there Zoe or are you concentrating hard?

Shiraz

Frilly

Lass

Miss Shiraz again

Mr Memphis

Johns horse

Razzie man

Stoneleigh Rose at Ellesmere Show

!st prize! went on to win champion

Korimako (Mickie)

Too cute

haven't had much time for blogging lately so will update with photos................