The best bits!
On Saturday there was a celebratory opening of the garden with food and drinks and circus entertainment all laid on by the commissioner.
To end this section of the blog I am going to do a big brother type 'here's your best bits'.
1) The sheme was finished off with a community planting session.
2) There are plans to begin a garden club.
3) A residents association forming was talked about.
4) The kids on the estate have guarded the garden from outsiders spoiling it.
5) I have seen groups of neighbours talking over garden fences and on the street.
6)The commissioner told me (Southern Housing Association) that the 'Them and us' attitude which had prevailed, had relaxed and tennants thought the housing association was now listening to them and reacting to requirements and generally more approchable.
7) Children run up and hug me in the street, they want their photo taken with me and they chase my car waving goodby. I felt like a celeb for the whole day.
8) The commissioner said it had exceeded expectations.
So well done The Anne Peaker Centre, Karin and then Liz Knowles who made it happen.
Three cheers for:
Andy Evans, Siobhaun Timothey, Kate Richardson, Martin Brockman and part time volunteer Dan who were my collegues in Nam. All of them artists from various disciplines with either shamanistic powers or the wisdom of medicine men.
