Thank you to everybody who made a scarecrow, manned the school refreshments, helped set up or strike the may day fayre, helped run a stall or the park & ride at the may day fayre…there were over 150 of you that made all that happen….without you there would have been no trail or fayre so thank you very much.

There were more people this year who stepped up to help with the early organising of the event and I’d like to give a particular thank you to the following who spent several hours sorting out their element of the fayre preparation:

• Becky Goddard: programme advertisers
• Jon Richards & Dan Dinsey from Obladee Design.
• Franky Fatica & Chris Liston for organising the BBQ and Beer Tent
• Annabelle Whitford for requesting raffle prizes from companies; Steph & Jace from St. Joseph’s School for sweet bagging, lucky dip wrapping, enveloping up school flyers etc. All part of their Duke of Edinburgh service commitment
• Gillian Fatica and her team from Intel who spent a day in the lower recreation field sorting children’s games and prizes as a community day
• PGL, Poplars and Lotmead for providing a free park & ride facility.
• Ray Hingley, Jo & Paul Whitford, Ian Lawrence, Margaret & Malcolm Buckenham, the Hopkins and Bowley families for all round support and just doing any jobs that needed doing over several months!!

As always, the more people who help, the more we can spread the load; it would be great to have some more volunteers for next year’s event. We’ll start planning in September so please contact me if you’d be willing to be part of the team that make these two great community events happen……as one of the scarecrows said: “many hands make light work”!!

As we go to press, it's too early to know how much we raised from these events; a second year of poor weather on May Day and less than sunny weather during the trail fortnight definitely kept our visitor numbers lower than our bumper years but we should still have made a good profit….more details in the July Lyden.

I thought the scarecrow standard this year surpassed all other years and I really enjoyed people’s adaptations of the theme: Proverbs, Myths & Legends. I hope you all got a chance to go round the trail and see what a creative bunch of people we have living in our community. At the time of writing the draw is yet to be made so more information will follow in the July Lyden. Suffice to say nobody got all 52 answers correct!

The answers to the trail are as follows:

 

No.	Proverb / Myth / Legend
1	See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
2	The pen is mightier than the sword
3	Money is the root of all evil
4	St George & the dragon
5	New brooms sweep clean
6	A rolling stone gathers no moss
7	A stitch in time saves nine
8	A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
9	Robin Hood
10	Many hands make light work
11	The Easter Bunny
12	King Priam of Troy
13	If at first you don’t succeed…
14	Too many cooks spoil the broth
15	Mermaid
16	Dracula
17	Zorro
18	Never judge a book by its cover
19	Daedalus
20	A bad workman always blames his tools
21	The legend of Zelda
22	Medusa
23	Thor
24	The Monkey King (Sun Wukon)
25	Unicorn
26	Jason and the Argonauts
27	Spring Heeled Jack
28	Big Foot
29	Loch Ness Monster
30	A picture’s worth a thousand words
31	Moonrakers
32	The labours of Hercules
33	Fairy
34	Merlin
35	Two heads are better than one
36	The boy who cried wolf
37	The Black Dog Highwayman
38	Trojan Horse
39	King Arthur
40	The early bird catches the worm
41	Don’t look a gifthorse in the mouth
42	Let sleeping dogs lie
43	Beowulf
44	Dimple on the chin, Devil within
45	Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
46	You can’t get blood out of a stone
47	The legend of the spiders and the christmas tree
48	Legend of Finn McCool / salmon of wisdom
49	Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
50	Pandora’s box
51	Leprauchan
52	The grass is always greener on the other side

Thank you to Nationwide Property Lettings, Atwell Martin Estate Agents, Wanborough Herb Nursery, Bevirs Solicitors and The Oaktree Building Company for their support in providing the scarecrow trail prizes this year.

Next year’s scarecrow trail theme is The World of Cartoons & Comics. If you would like to make a scarecrow for the trail please get in touch early as we’ll limit entries to 59. If you made / hosted a scarecrow this year, please return your form in the next few months so we can get organised for 2018. I already have 6 entries for next year, thank you. If you need any information before considering making a scarecrow please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you

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