Hello everyone,
Greetings from Paisley once again!
Since I last blogged I have been a busy bumble bee organising a special drop-in event in Paisley Museum. I was asked to set up an event to promote Glennifer Braes Country Park in Paisley. This park is beautiful and is packed full of natural wonders. There’s a big waterfall called Craigielinn and Highland Cows a plenty. Paisley Museum are currently holding an exhibition about a particular walkway that runs through the park named after Robert Tannahill who was a poet and songwriter who was inspired by the park. The exhibition takes you through an imaginary journey along the walkway.
My event was to coincide with the exhibition and was a brilliant opportunity to grab as many local organisations that love and help protect our natural environment and cram them all into one room. The great things about this was just the organisations themselves meeting each other and see what natural delights they are going crazy about. The main idea of the event was to get these organisations and the public to celebrate our natural world and how everyone can get involved.
Once everyone had got over my fellow Natural Community trainee, Alex Hogg’s Mahoosive hazel butterfly, we all calmed down and everyone got their stalls ready for the rush of Paisleites! I was really lucky to get a lot of great organisations come along on the day, ranging from Clyde Bat Group and Paisley Biological records all the way to local volunteers setting up community gardens. Not to mention my beautiful BTCV crowd. (Cheers my lovelies).
Once the doors had opened the crowds didn’t exactly swarm in but a relaxing steady flow came through the door. This was great and meant the public had enough space and time to talk to each organisation. The kids however were spoilt for choice of things to do. You could see their brains working trying to decide which stall to go to first. They could make loo roll octopuses or embellish paper bats or look at real life creepy crawlies.
I must say the highlight of the day was the attendance of Bachy the pedigree Highland cow and her fluffy calf also named Bachy! These gorgeous, HUGE animals stood grazing outside the museum attracting every member of the public that happened to walk by. It was a great success having those beasts. I even got to walk down the high street with them – Hurrah!
A great day, great support and I’ve never seen so many people smiling in Paisley before, the sun was shining so that helped!
Thanks to all once again for all your marvellous help. STARS!
Tarra then chaps – Moo to you all!