Why not try your hand at Juggling whilst the children are being entertained by the Marionettes?

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Celebrate the music and fun of the 1920's and 1930's! A popular addition to the Garden Show - playing you music from New Orleans, the Charleston Age and The Jungle Book, whilst dressed in style with striped jackets and white flannels or white tie and tails or dress suits.

Also on the South Lawn is Fete Fun (Sat & Sun only) run by the volunteers fund raising  for the CancerWise.

Family Entertainment with Mr G's Bouncy Bouncy and Crazee Hazzee balloon modelling.

'The Tree of Life' A Daily Tombola with fabulous prizes kindly donated by many, including many prizes from the exhibitors at the show, on the South Lawn in Aid of Cancer Wise.

12 pm daily: Create your Bug House Tidy.

A walk with artists Jules and Tim Simmons to collect material to sculpt your own bug habitat….a fun activity for all the family.
 (All the wire used will be sourced for the workshop from safe debris that would normally not be recycled.)

This year Tim and Jules will be creating Bug House Tidies : a nature friendly solution to provide wildlife with somewhere to live in the tidy garden.

The idea of this family activity is to create a safe space for garden wildlife that also tidies the garden up. The tube of wire provides a frame for you to collect and weave sticks, twigs and leaves into. It stays warm and damp in winter and moist in dry summers, giving the frogs, toads, newts, lizards and slow worms somewhere to hide undisturbed, as well as lots of insects too. The insects you won't want to house like slugs and snails are food for the amphibians. The great thing about the bug house is that as it rots down it also feeds the worms in the soil improving the garden's soil. All you do is keep topping it up with untidy debris such as twigs, sticks and leaves that fall from trees and shrubs. This keeps your beds and lawn looking good, while still providing an untidy house for nature. ……… the perfect solution for the tidy garden and the untidy wildlife to live side by side!

For the past few years Jules and Tim have led a series of recycling workshops on current ecological issues, challenging the many participants to look more closely at what is affecting their environment, highlighting the 3 Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle. They have made recycled drums to explore the plight of children whose role it is to sort rubbish (as seen in the film Slumdog Millionaire); made seagull sculptures out of plastic bags and kitchen equipment to raise awareness about the way these items litter our shores and harm wildlife; made beach combing installations to illustrate the impact of plastic on the turtles and dolphins who are unable to identify the danger in eating man-made objects, made clocks out of boat portholes…and much more besides…….

Harbour Pipes and Drums will be playing between South Lawn and The Chapel at 2pm and 3.30pm on Sunday ONLY.

Harbour Pipes and Drums is a Marching Pipe Band based near Emsworth, and are dedicated to the promotion of Scottish Highland Bagpipe music. The Band play at events throughout the Hampshire and West Sussex   region including Portsmouth , Southampton, Chichester, Reading and the New Forest . The emphasis of the Band is to bring on the younger players and teach them the Bagpipes and Drums. They practice in Forrestside, near Emsworth every Friday night. The Band is available to hire for parades, carnivals, fetes and special occasions. You can also hire an individual piper or drummer for a wedding, funeral, Burn's supper, birthday party, etc. for more information visit www.harbourpipesanddrums.co.uk
or email: secretary@harbourpipesanddrums.co.uk

They will be collecting for Help for Heroes…. come along and listen

2 pm daily: Enhance your Environment; inside or out

Vaughan Capstick will be giving practical demonstrations on how to transform different areas of your house and garden.

Vaughan started his working life as a carpenter and general builder. He then trained in restoration and decoration at Portsmouth University and went on to work on conservation/restoration projects that included Uppark House, Cardiff Castle , and Osborne House. In the early 90s he travelled extensively in the US and Europe working as a set designer and scenic artist in New York and London . He currently undertakes commissions as a decorative artist and freelance decorator, working closely with his clients to help realise their vision and create design that has empathy with the environment he is working in.

There is 'life' everywhere and in all things. Creativity gives us the ability to reveal that which lies deep inside our minds in such a way as to believe that it must have always been there. It merely needed to be uncovered. This is the work of an 'artist'.
Vaughan

Vaughan will also be at his stand throughout the Show to give invaluable advice and tips about innovative decoration.

www.vaughansworld.co.uk

E: vaughancapstick@hotmail.com | T: 07855179733

Don't forget to visit the ancient Chapel brimming with the fabulous flower arrangements created by the Emsworth Afternoon Flower Club in aid of Help for Heroes (www.helpforheroes.org.uk). Also - please find the Emsworth Afternoon Club under the trees in Chapel Grove (OT11) selling beautiful baskets of cut flowers. The Flower Club will be auctioning the arrangements from the Chapel on Sunday afternoon at 4.00pm at the Chapel and / or on their pitch under the trees.

Go on - have a go! :-)

The Taste Experience

Try out delicious foods, wines, beer & cider .. enough to tempt the taste buds with plenty of Country Food Exhibitors to choose from.

See also ... Free Talks