Burrs 2009

This is the first Post from Burrs 2009. its Friday night and 3/4 of the folk have arrived at the venue, we have Ivo and Enrico from Italy, Carlos and Graff from Portugal. a whole bunch from the wilds of Wales (in Kev Bailey)... a sprinkling of southern softies... One Yorkshire man... Fiona.. who has just landed... and lots arriving tomorrow... this is Burrs 2009... watch this space.

Tony

Tony,

may the Force be with you.. -dorothy

Tony: Have a great weekend. Like your trees and especially your self effacing humor(sort of Austin Powers). This post by Dorothy very funny-look closely your head is to the right-maybe doing a "Walk like an Egyptian",back and forth. Dustin

Tony is more master yoda than obiwan!
Lets hope the jedi dont cross wires

I must be too young with this 'force' thing. Self-effacing people are secretly confident and the cause of many food fights.

Ciao......Leonardo

Carlos supplied Beaver bonsai tools for the extensive carving workshops. Bob did all of the carving.

Some more pics from the event:

The Stone Monkey gets tip top advice from Terry Foster.



and judging by the look on Andy's face, a fiendish plot was hatched:

Tony conducts an ad hoc lesson on a rather splendid soon to be bloomin' fantabulously stunning Hawthorn raft. Dunno whose it could have been!

John Pitt giving Chris Thomas his first virtual piano lesson:




Actually, they were deep in discussion about John's excellent tree:

Ivo gets wired into the demo tree:







Unfortunately my pics of the finished item (or at least finished for the duration) seems to have someone's stray butt cheek invading them. It'd be good if anyone else could supply a pic sans derriere.

If Carlsberg did Bonsai weekend it would definatly be a Burrs Bonsai Weekend. Excellent time, excellent friends and excellent Bonsai. Thanks Tony and all who helped organise this great weekend. Even had a great trip home was in by 8pm the M6 was kind to the Monkeys.

A big thankyou to Enrico, Ivo, Terry & Tony for your expertise and guidance and a bigger thankyou to Caroline and "Mum" for the fab food and catering, not forgetting Steve, Matt & Bob for "behind the scenes" hard work

All the best and see you all at Noelanders

Kind regards

Andy