A few weeks ago we decided that it would be great to enter our village scarecrow contest. The neighbourhood we live in has a very strong sense of community that is totally contagious, so we just couldn’t resist. My lovely wife put her creative skills together and with the aid of cushions, straw, scrap wood and a few bit of chef wear, we came up with the following:

I came up with the blackbirds from old sock, yellow golf tees, straw and garden wire. At 10 o’clock on the Sunday  morning, the assembled scarecrow was installed on the end of our drive. Hundreds of on-lookers came past and took photo’s of “Marco” and we did pretty much the same by playing village tourists for the day.

Sometime later in the day, we got a text message from some friends to congratulate us on our winning entry. The judges had stealthed in, put a 1st Place rosette on Marco for first place in Traditional Scarecrow, Business category.

Thank you, a great day and it certainly put a smile on our faces to get a prize.