Hi all 

Pictures for the week 

Including VE day 

and 

Dale Grandchildren doing art

Please keep painting and send more

Barbra and Derek

  Two photos from VE day celebrations plus a map  showing what Barbara and Derek were doing to celebrate the end of the war. B not very happy because she was not allowed to carry the cake 

Barbra

Unexpected visitors

This family of ducks turned up on my daughter’s garden pond last week, much to our family’s delight.  Unfortunately they seem to have decided to move on.

Audrey

Just in case you have forgotten what I look like. This one taken when we were having our VE Day street party yesterday. We all brought our food out to have in the front gardens. Then I had a walk around and spoke to people (at a distance of course) some of whom I'd hadn't spoken to before, so it was all very pleasant. Then we had BINGO, something I wouldn't normally  choose to do but it was quite fun. And the weather was so lovely.

Alan

As you know Danbury is sand and gravel country.  Hoynors - where I live - was a sand and gravel pit before converting itself into a housing area.   As you can guess drainage is not a problem! Rain falls and rapidly drains away - gardening is difficult!  Smallish trees survive but tend to die when they reach a certain size and the only plants that survive are those which really like dry conditions. Being walled with no tree shading means it gets very hot in summer. I have discovered that growing in pots is more successful than soil and this has meant soil areas have disappeared and pots have increased.

Seeing the lovely gardens in of members in summer has left envious.  My garden tends to be spartan (bit like my paintings!) Never the less with all this spare time available  the garden is being set up for the summer - so take a walk around it ( see if you can catch the 3 second dance from Kate).

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Alan

Fruit Bowl

We can still be seen walking the Church graveyard every afternoon, pleasant at the moment but with the change in weather next week it could be a cool and windy experience.

Anyhow I had a break from painting this week, gardening, but managed one masterpiece yesterday.  

Kay

Escaping

Linda 

On the beach

Peter 

Route 66

Lyndal

Cards

It's been time to make cards for Bonnie, Andrew and Stella's birthdays so here they are.

We've had a party in the Close this afternoon and neighbors chatted to Tim through the window.

Hope all's well with you guys.

Maureen

Sardines

Gerry

Still working on Janet's challenge 

Gerry and Maureen

VE Day Lower Anchor Street

Elizabeth our neighbor looking after her mum during lock down 

with a neighbor who is 100 years young

VE Day Theydon Bois

Scarlett

Cloudy Night

Jake

Finn

Oisin

Scartett

Fluid art paint pouring

Kate

Kate Oisin and Finn did an art club over zoom

with some friends and learnt a bit about Andy Worhol 

and then did some pictures inspired by him

Alan

St John's Danbury

Lest we forget !!

Elaine

Gone swimming

Carol

This is a painting of the hotel grounds in Tuscany where I went for a painting holiday last September.