14 - 20 May 2012

Justine is having a blooming nightmare. Responsible, by default, for the church flowers and bearing in mind that the Easter flowers cost about €500, she decided to go cheap and cheerful for Pentecost. She had already filled the trolley with bright bargain bucket blooms when a helpful friend warned that some sensitive souls could be affronted when flowers more commonly seen on a grave appeared in the church. That leaves Justine with few options since each individual grave is a microcosmic Chelsea Flower Show, with not a petal out of place. When a petal is out of place the flowers are banished to the bin - whence they find their way to the Peberdy balcony, and they would win a gold medal, in spite of and because of their beautiful flaws.