What a day we had. The mural painted by our resident artist Bridget greeted our guests. We had many VIP guests, including the Mayor, who came along with photos and shared their memories of the momentous day 80 years ago when they celebrated the end of the war in Europe.
Several artists brought VE Day inspired paintings, and we had a display of newspapers and books from that period, with an example of just how little you were allowed on rations for the week. Also, there was a cake made with only ration supplies. Tea and cake on the patio.
We had a doodlebug drawing, cut out Nazi bombers and red, white and blue bunting. The fairy cakes and fruit cakes were delicious, as was our popular Red pitcher — consisting of white rum, lemonade and blood orange squash and a Blue drink, non-alcoholic Blueberry blue grape & lemonade.
Noddy was our poet for the afternoon and read some moving poetry about the war and some of his wonderful poems. We had 1940s music playing in the background as people talked, and in the evening we had a knees-up party with DJ Rich, who played requests. A good time had by all.
