Saturday was Seed Swap Day at Well House Manor. From around lunchtime, organisers arrived and sorted their seeds into a series of boxes all along the tables in the Wilts (that's our larger training room).
Boxes of root vegatables .. boxes of marrows .. boxes of fruit .. boxes of onions .. and a small box containing a single packet of seeds for Bonsai trees.
Our team at Well House Manor had been busy baking, and tea, freshbrewed coffee, and homemade cakes were on offer and went down very well - just look at the picture and you'll see how tempting they are
<advert>We're open every afternoon for teas, coffees, cakes!</advert> - we bake regularly and I can assure you of a good selection. Exactly what, I don't know - we have two big groups this week and there will be fresh baking to be done.
This final picture shows the seed swap happening. And plans are already afoot for it to happen again next year. Of course, that's a long way off ... we're currently looking forward to Easter (plent of accommodation every night except Saturday), to more people through the museum that weekend, and to the arrival of the first English strawberries - probably in May - when we can restart cream teas.
But - please don't wait for cream teas; we've plenty of good caked and plenty to see all year!
(written 2013-03-10, updated 2013-03-30)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
Z403 - Organisations [58] Call Centres, selling, and a pause for thought - (2004-09-22)
[307] Farming yesterday - (2005-05-10)
[472] Are you free on 29th October - Charity ball - (2005-10-21)
[981] Finalist reception - Wiltshire Business of the Year - (2006-12-13)
[1258] A day looking ahead for Well House Consultants - (2007-07-05)
[1278] West Wilts Show - (2007-07-26)
[1280] West Wilts - no longer Wet Wilts - show - (2007-07-28)
[2012] The Wiltshire Police - (2009-01-29)
[2015] Service Excellence Awards - (2009-01-30)
[2026] Melksham Climate Friendly Group - (2009-02-05)
[2128] Wiltshire - where everybody matters - (2009-04-13)
[2236] Alumni - revisiting and supporting the old University - (2009-06-13)
[2271] Dogs Trust, Dog Show, Newbury - (2009-07-06)
[2574] Summary of Wiltshire Core Strategy responses - (2010-01-13)
[2585] Consultation in Melksham, on Melkshams future - (2010-01-17)
[2807] Canal through Melksham - the options and issues - (2010-06-13)
[2869] Contact Information for Melksham Oak Community School - (2010-07-13)
[2902] Community consultation - a true open input - (2010-08-04)
[3317] Self Portrait (in words) - (2011-06-04)
[3484] A Melksham Timeline - Domesday to present day - (2011-10-17)
[3511] Melksham has a heart - have your picture taken and support the defibrillator appeal - (2011-11-06)
[3604] Melksham Campus - a blog you can read, and a place you can comment - (2012-02-08)
[3677] Some advise for guest speakers at meetings - (2012-03-31)
[3704] The Bowerhill Villager - a newsletter for Bowerhill, Melksham - (2012-04-22)
[3712] Some unpublished and historic pictures - Museum of Melksham - (2012-04-28)
[3774] Melksham - a new dawn - (2012-06-23)
[4020] Melksham Community - Annual Report / MCAP - (2013-02-26)
[4548] Melksham - two small townships, or one big one? - (2015-10-22)
Some other Articles
Bus stop audit - what is missing?Bright Spring MorningReport on the last year - Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Melksham Without Parish CouncilReport on the last year - Melksham Railway Developement Group for Melksham Without Parish CouncilSeed Swap at Well House ManorUsing Pygments to colour our training examplesCascading Style Sheets and formatting your web pageHTML tags uses in these blog articlesSpecial characters in HTMLThe VERY basics of a web page ... and web site