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Adderley shines again and we’ve met people, adults and children, hunting for stones and finding eggs. Excited or what! We’re started to get pictures and we really like that. Special thanks to Ken Greetham for a stunning spring image of daffodils in the spring sunshine at St Peter’s Church round the sun dial.

Now, have you spotted Peter Rabbit’s friends jumping into their holes? Look carefully, there are three of them near the village green. Many thanks to Val Nash and Corrine for the pictures and an extra special thanks to Chris Shaw for providing the disappearing bunnies.

 

We’ve heard the people are taking pictures of themselves with Peter Rabbit. It would be lovely if you could share them with us and we will add them to the gallery.

Just send them to: niceplacetobe@adderleyparish.co.uk .

All the painted stones are in their hiding places waiting to be discovered. We hope that you have fun doing the hunt and if you do discover a bonus chocolate egg on the trail thank Peter Rabbit.

Don’t forget to download the What3words app onto your phone to answer the clues If you want to know more about it click here:

There are copies of the map and clues in the Book Shelter at the end of Rectory Lane and you return your completed clue sheet to the post box at the shelter.

If you would prefer to download a copy please click below:

A reminder to leave the stones as you find them please do not spoil the hunt for those that follow you.

The hunt is live from Friday 2nd April until Friday 9th April.

Happy Hunting!

Very excited, after we spoke to Peter this morning down at the Book Shelter, he got back in touch to say he loved the idea of the Painted Stone Hunt and that he’d spoken to his cousin the Easter Bunny and wanted to ask us a favour,  so of course we said yes!   

Apparently the Easter Bunny thinks he is going to have a few small eggs left over from the Easter Egg Hunts around the world and has asked Peter and friends if they would be willing to accept them.  Peter’s had a chat with his mates and they’ve said they will do the Painted Stone Trail and drop the odd egg off if they find the hiding place of a stone.  We were bit worried about covid rules but he assures us that they all have rabbit sized disposable gloves and will wear these when they put the eggs out and they all regularly sanitize their paws too.  How good is that? 

So we don’t know when the eggs will be out but if you are one of the lucky people who finds a stone just after a rabbit has been by – you can add it to your Easter Egg collection!    Peter says not all the rabbits will hunt at the same time, they are very busy doing other things like digging burrows, but they will definitely be out at different times over the Easter weekend so lots of chances to pick up an extra egg if you do the hunt.    He’s shown us a photo of the eggs they will be leaving and assures me that they are very tasty (he had a lot of chocolate around his mouth so I believe he has been taste testing!)

We posted an incorrect link yesterday that left one or two people a little confused. We’re sorry we linked to the wrong page so we’re putting that right.

If you would like to see all of the painted stones that have been put into the Adderley Stone Hunt please click the link Adderley Galleries below and scroll down to the Adderley Stone Hunt.

Adderley Stone Hunt 2021

 

Image: Painted Stones By Maggie Roche

We’re counting down to Friday 2nd April when you can start to find those hidden stones. We will be publishing details over the next 8 days about how it will work so watch the news feed and the Adderley Village FB page.

We have had a wonderful collection of painted stones from young and old members of the village as well as guest stones from grandchildren. While you’re here take a minute to scroll down the page and look at the galleries of stones.