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Flower arranging workshops
Location: Buckinghamshire
As part of the LHI workshops a group of women learnt about Edmund Waller and flower arranging at St. Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield on the morning of 31st May 2006. They each designed a posy of their choice and colour.
9 September 2006
Waller Celebrations
Venue: St. Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield
Waller Celebration
Flower Arranging Workshop
May 31st, 2006
As part of the displays to be held at the Waller Celebration in September, a flower-arranging workshop was held in St. Mary’s Church whereby those attending learnt how to arrange a pew seat posy. Angela Shepherd led the workshop.
A total of 8 people attended the workshop at 11.00am and they not only learnt the intricacies of flower arranging, but also about the heritage that makes the life of Edmund Waller important to those who live in the Beaconsfield area. In accordance with the requirements of the Local Heritage Initiative who are funding a large part of the Waller celebration, the community should learn about Waller as well as about flower arranging etc.
Sylvia Jones opened the workshops by giving those attending a brief description of the life of Edmund Waller and how they came to be doing flower posies to celebrate the lives of our loved ones. One lady asked – “But why should we honour him, Edmund Waller?” Indeed, if you read his life story at the time of the civil war you might wonder whether he was traitor or mediator.
Whilst most historical reviews of Waller’s life brand him a traitor, a new book is being written by John Safford which emphasises the sensitive and poetical side of Edmund Waller that accounts for his seemingly cowardly behaviour at the time.
A free booklet will be published at the time of the Waller celebration (8th – 10th September 2006) which will give one the opportunity to decide whether Waller was traitor or mediator.
The ladies at the flower workshop therefore found the historical side very interesting as well as learning a new skill in flower arranging. The flower posies at the time of the Waller Celebration will be to honour a loved one, and there will also be at least three large flower arrangements that will be arranged around the themes of a few of Waller’s poems, ‘Go, Lovely Rose’ being one of them.
Another floral workshop will be held nearer the time in late August or early September, before the 9th September.
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