Bubbles and blue skies

This photo was a lucky fluke.

If ever a day needed to be sunny, but not too sunny, warm, but not too warm and have a bit of a breeze, but not be blowing a gale………it was today. For today was the day that the teddy bears had their picnic………in Moonee Ponds.

The Moonee Valley City Council, for whom I work, held their first Teddy Bear’s Picnic in Clarinda Park today and I was privileged to be asked to be their storyteller. The sun was shining, the grass was green, the playground was waiting and so too was an enthusiastic crew from the council’s sport and recreation team. They had craft, they had face painting, they had balloons and balloon sculpting, they had free coffee for an hour and they had ME!!!!

They also had a fantastic response from the community of Moonee Valley. There were a few hundred people, kids, families, family day-care workers, grandparents, dads, aunties, friends…….you name them, they were there. Picnic blankets quickly began to carpet the park as picnics were magically produced from bags and under prams.

Kids ran around together with beautifully painted faces, grown-ups lined up for their free caffeine hit, the craft marquee did a roaring trade and I got to tell stories and re-enact “We’re going on a bear hunt”. …….Twice.

So please accept my apologies if today’s blog is perhaps not as eloquent as some of my others, but my eyes are hanging out of my head. I have had a BIG day and have just culled and edited 101 photos from today. I nearly turned off the computer after editing the last photo. I almost forgot that I still had a blog to write.  Almost.