2012 will be the year of the cow so keep an eye on guernseycowparade.com and our new Cow Parade Facebook page.

The calendars have arrived and they look great! They are currently available from Quayside, the College of FE, and the Princess Royal Centre. More places will have them next week and we will let you know where you can buy them. They will be available at Beau Sejour on Sunday at the Christmas Fayre.

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You may have seen in the media that the Donkey Parade received the Fund Raising Team award at the recent Guernsey Community Foundation Awards.

Janet and I were delighted to be presented with the award but it was a massive team effort.

So, a big thank you to everyone involved in the Parade. It was a lot of hard work but it was also great fun and really caught the imagination of the public as well as raising a magnificent £60,000 for GALP.

We are now looking forward to next year’s cows!!

More details to follow soon.

Thanks again

Trevor

There are plans to produce a commemorative calendar for the Donkey Parade. However, this does rely upon having a decent selection of photographs to choose from, which is why there has been a cry for help and a request for anyone wishing to have their photos considered to kindly submit them, ASAP, to Trevor Wakefield at trevorw@gcfe.net

Having just come back from Guernsey where I saw a few of the 42 donkeys featured in the colourful Donkey Parade, I feel tempted to share with you the story of our donkey, to be seen in the Biberach Market Square.

This donkey was created by Peter Lenk, a sculptor from Bodman, Lake Constance. The story behind it was written by Christoph Martin Wieland, who spent his childhood in Biberach and also worked here before he became the first classical author in Weimar, Thuringia. He wrote a satirical novel in the 1770s about the citizens of Abderra in Northern Greece (or Biberach, or …?) with episodes that might have some equivalents today. The Story about the Donkey and his Shadow is part of it and runs as follows:

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I have been asked to publish the bid prices for the various donkeys. So -

A huge, huge thank you to everyone who turned up at the auction today.

The donkeys sold for over £58,000!!!

Special thanks to Gary Burgess, our tireless auctioneer and Norman Wilkinson for all his professional help and guidance.

We are all in a state of shock!!!!

Thank you

The donkeys are in place and have been allocated lot numbers:

Lot      Name                          Artist                          Sponsor

1          Doc                             Lucy Gosselin             Catherine Best

2          L’ane                           Tom Deane                 Condor Ferries

3          Nussie                         Peter le Vasseur         The Farmhouse

4          Colin                            Mark Cook                  Collins Stewart

5          Douglas                       Specsavers                 Specsavers

6          Oriana                         Anita Davies                Alliance

7          Petroc                         Hannah Wakefield      Beach House Cafe

8          Patch                           Amanda Cook             Creaseys

9          Puzzle                         Nik & Sally Herring     Garenne Group

10        Wordsworth             Betley Whitehorne      Betley Whitehorne

11        Dougie                         Sarnia Arts & Crafts    Blue Islands

12        Eeyore-dit                 Kate Kellaway             KPMG

13        Juliet                            Charlotte Barnes         Cooper Brouard

14        Art                               Liesja Grut                   LRandD

15        Dominick                     GCFE art students      Source

16        Sparky                          Beechwood School     Marks & Spencer

17        Oaty                              GCFE art students      Oatlands

18        Mr Moo                       MooArc                       MooArc

19        Dave                              Mark Cook                  Deutsche Bank

20        Napoleon                   St Sampsons Infants  Island Coachways

21        Fleur                            Melissa Ay                  Fleur du Jardin Hotel

22        John Lennane           Liz Adams                   Queux Patio Plants

23        Annie                           GCFE art students      A O Hall

24        Norman                       States Prison               Norman Piette

25        Travis                          Torteval Methodist Church     Cooperative Society

26        Wonky                         Lisa and Jo                  Sure

27        Dick                              Potting Shed               Cenkos

28        Connie                         9th St Peter’s Beavers      Condor Logistics

29        Malcolm                      LRandD                       Aurigny

30        Seayore                        Notre Dame School    Investec

31        Percy                            GCFE Access students            Mourant Ozannes

32        Monty                          GCFE art students      Montagu Evans

33        Mo                                 Maryjane, Christine and Suzette  Mourant Ozannes                                       

34        Ezel                               Andrea le Poidevin      ABN AMRO

35        Ebenezer                     Gemma Domaille       Collas Crill

36        Smiler                          Guernsey children      GBG Magazine

37        Esme                             Louisa Dunn                Maggie Talbot-Cull

38        Don Quixote               Kate Roberts               Ray and Scott

39        Dotty                             Katie Cummins           La Grand Mare Hotel

40        Aesop                           Avenue Flowers          Argent Funeral Services

41        Erudite                         Frances Lemmon       Dowding Signs           

All the donkeys are now collected and ready for Sunday.

The auction is starting at 2.00pm on Sunday but the donkeys will be on show as from 9.30 – the last chance to see them all!

If you can’t get to the auction, we are able to bid on your behalf. Norman Wilkinson from CI Auctions has kindly offered to help us out and he will place your bids for you. Let us know what reserve you wish to place on which donkey and Norman will represent you at the auction.

To let us know the reserve price you can email trevorw@gcfe.net or call me on 07781102568.

We can also accept ‘phone bids on the day – call me on 07781102568 to discuss this option.

I am hoping to create the running order for the auction tomorrow – watch this space!

Some bad news:  Erudite, the donkey on the green outside St Peter’s Church was damaged earlier in the week.  Someone snapped him off the plinth and smashed a hole in his face.  We are trying to get him repaired in time for Sunday.  If anyone has any information about the damage, please let me know so I can pass it on to the police.