A Summer Party, and the GSB at Walsham le Willows, Suffolk - 26th August 2024

The Gislingham Silver Band is playing one of its regular gigs at the Open Gardens weekend in Walsham le Willows, and the weather plays its part too by not raining and being warm. Before that, it's time for our Summer party, with the new patio roof cover being finished just in time. It's just as well as the weather's not brilliant, with heavy rain earlier in the day. Luckily that stops, but it remains fairly cold all night. There is however the entertainment provided by Fred's rite of passage in finding an abandoned road cone and sticking it on his head, whilst drinking home-made cider.

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Andrew, Clive and Paul in front of the new roof

Andrew, Clive and Paul in front of the new roof

Andrew waves a pork pie around

Chatting in the dining room

Food's out on the table

Doug plays a bit of bass guitar

Marc, Phil and Paul

Fred's got a road cone on his head

Marc and Wavy chat by the fire pit

Fred wanders around with the cone hat

The road to Hunston in Walsham le Willows

There's an amazing crochet flower wall

Hundreds of crochet flowers on the church wall

The band sets up

Mark and Adrian chat

A view from the back

Adrian gets us ready to go

Nosher, Fred and Kerry

The band kicks off

Former GSB player Ron, with Sheila

The GSB in action

Mark and Terry - the rhythm section

We have a break for cakes and tea

Terry and his missus

Various stalls near the village hall

People consider next year's flower bulbs

It's crowded in the village hall

Nice new thatching on a house on the High Street

Graham fires up the bagpipes during our interval

Alan is the last man standing, or at least sitting

The increasingly-derelict Six Bells

A lovely old Jaguar trundles up the street

There's some sort of Ed Sheeran eagle-owl in Eye