Wednesday 23 October 2013

A Living Time Capsule

Today in the Garden we were surprised and delighted to receive a lovely guest...Mr White.
 
A spritely 86 years of age, Mr White had heard about this amazing school garden where there once was a pool, and came down to meet us and see what all the fuss was about!

 As it turns out Mr White is a rather keen gardener himself who has won a LOT of ribbons at the A & P show over the years for his fruit and vegetables. We were all VERY impressed to see that red 1st place ribbons out numbered any other colour 3 to 1!

 One of the reasons Mr White was so keen to meet us all was because over 40 years ago he was one of the first care takers at our school. It was one of his jobs to paint the school pool...before we turned it into a garden!

Like any visitor to our garden we couldn't let Mr White go without offering him some of our produce...
 ...soon he had too much to carry so we tried putting it in his hat...
 ...but the garden offerings and carefully selected gifts just kept coming, so we found a bag...
...but it wasn't long before the bag too, was over flowing with garden goodness and colourful flowers!

Thank you so much Mr White for taking the time to discover our Garden with us, and share your A & P show ribbons and stories. What a very special and unexpected day it turned out to be!

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  1. Elizabeth23 October 2013 at 12:34

    What a great day, I wonder who enjoyed it more, the kids or Mr White ;-)

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  2. Westport North School Garden23 October 2013 at 15:20

    Mr White was an absolute delight to host, looks like we could do more in this area and invite the "Wheel Chair Bus" to visit us once a month on their weekly outings, also we should look at hosting more garden open days later this term, we also have the "New Coasters" Group down for a garden visit with us too...

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