Outing to Shrewsbury Flower Show 

    After a week of unsettled weather (to say the least!) we left Marple in the sunshine for our day in Shrewsbury. 

    Our driver made good time and we arrived at 11am – still in the sunshine!  After a quick coffee we walked

    round  the perimeter of the show – first with the show jumping and then on to the stalls.  We managed to make

    a few purchases on the way to the bandstand for our picnic and to listen to the Royal Artillery band’s full 

    programme. The marquis’s were the next on the list but, once inside, the heat was overpowering although we 

    did manage to see some beautiful floral arrangements as well as the cookery demonstration by Rosemary 

    Shrages. Next it was back to the arena to catch the end of the Bold-dog motor cyclists, the Mersey male voice 

    choir, Fiona Pears (a new Zealand violinist) and part of the performance of Haley Westerner. All too soon it was

    time to leave –  a jolly good day.

    Thank you to the organisers.