With the May Day bank holiday tantalisingly close, (and the weather so characteristically cold, as usual when we all have time off!), and so much on offer, it's time for us to make plans. There's a water festival coming up in Priory Park on the Monday, a well-dressing competition for the 40-odd wells, spouts and troughs in the Malvern area, and the traditional donkey ride up from the Abbey Hotel to St. Anne's Well on Sunday morning at 11.00am, ridden by the May Queen.
All in all, there is a lot to see and do. And yet, just as my article last week mourned the loss of Olivers in Belle Vue, so this year at the May bank holiday could see the last of the donkey procession up to St. Anne's Well, (this is due to the organiser of this wonderful event retiring).
We at Malvern Decorators, thankfully sheltering indoors this week with an interior painting job that's kept us mercifully out of this northern wind, have been in talking in deep and dark conspiratorial tones about our plans for this weekend. I will probably venture up to get breakfast in Great Malvern, perhaps splash out at the sublime Mac & Jack's (I've eaten there before but never breakfast, and word is it's lovely). Afterwards, I hope to toast the donkey as it trots past.
Another of our team is off to the Elan Valley if the weather is suitable, to bike around the dams and take in the Welsh air. Whilst another is simply going to . . . sleep (modern youth!)
The Malvern Gazette has helpfully provided a good article about what's on, so I would like to do my civic duty and point my one reader to it so they can make sure they don't miss out on local fun!
Click here for the Malvern Gazette May Bank Holiday article.