House at Pooh Corner

The little play house was built over 20 years ago for our daughter Suzie. Now it has had a Winnie the Pooh makeover so that children who visit the garden on our Open Days can enjoy playing in it. Maybe they will bring their own favourite teddy and have a teddy bears picnic; complete with honey sandwiches.

Phil Remblance and his son Carl from Kempston have masterminded the transformation. You should see inside. Balloons are painted on the ceiling, floating amongst the clouds and bees. Its such fun! Poppy was our first little visitor.

A moveable House for Eeyore

I want to encourage children and mums and dads and grandparents, so that they can all have fun on an outing together in the garden. Simon and I are big fans of all Winnie the Pooh stories, so we thought we would make a Winnie the Pooh trail. We kept a lots of cuttings from the willows and cornus in late winter, ready to make Eeyore's new house.

Yesterday, Simon masterminded seven fence old posts to make the A frame and then I had the easy task of tacking on green and yellow stems. It doesnot look that dense a covering in the photos but then I didnot want it to be dark inside, just enough of a structure to make children want to explore.

Winnie came to see Eeyore in the evening and I think they were both very happy. They hatched a plan to invite all the 'other friends' to visit on Sunday and have a lovely picnic and games together.