The sun is out and the sky is blue in Scarborough for the Morris Minor owners club national rally and Mr Punch is raring to go!
 Heading South this weekend, no rain required the magic flowers have already been watered! I am very excited to announce that Mr Punch and I will be attending this years Stamford Georgian Festival on Saturday and Sunday the 26th and 27th of September  Great to see I am featured with Mr Punch in the new Great Food and Drink film for Nottingham castle. Check it out here.  Traditionally every Organ Grinder had a Monkey who would dance and hold his hand out for coins as the Organ Grinder played his music.
Real Monkeys are now a long and distant memory, however we are able to bring you a 20th Century equivalent. Meet Monty the Monkey, a mechanical coin collecting character known as a Bradford Monkey. Now almost as rare as the real thing, Monty will tip his hat when he is given a coin. Mr Punch caught the eye of Diarist Samuel Pepys in 1662 and now he is to appear at the ancestral home of Literary master Lord Byron.
The Great Food and Drink Festival will be at Newstead Abbey over the August Bank Holiday weekend and Mr Punch will be in attendance with all his usual mayhem plus some Quality sausages on Saturday 29th August 2015. |