FLOATING TO SUCCESS!
A tremendous effort by staff, residents and volunteers from the Abbeyfield Yarmouth Society was rewarded by success on 15th August when their float, themed on the nursery rhyme “Mary Mary quite contrary” won 1st Prize at the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Carnival.
Seated in front of a huge cockleshell at the head of the float was 96-year-old Abbeyfield Yarmouth resident Anne Speck dressed as Mary from the rhyme. She was surrounded by silver bells and pretty “maids in a row” and even a scarecrow (resident Alan Smith) in her “garden” which was the main body of the float.
Two months hard work went into preparing for the day. House Manager Kim Prior, 47 (one of the “pretty maids”) says “We had carnival workshops each week for two months – lots of paper mache was involved! The shell, which is huge, was a particularly daunting task! But it was great and I would gladly do it all again.”