Our first party here was in July of 2008.  We were almost done fixing up the house and Rock The Park was on, just across the River.
Steve Winwood was playing that night. About 150 people drifted through the house and floated out into the (then) over-grown garden,
laughing and dancing under the summer stars. 
We didn’t plan for that party to become an annual event but Andrew just loved it, and I can’t resist that dimple so an annual it became. 
I think that’s how it started; this just saying yes to everything people ask to do here. Peony Pop Ups with the incomparable
Tania Floral Design, watercolour workshops with artist Aggie Armstrong, Misha Bower’s Trying to Have it All album release,
music videos, dinner parties and Weddings!  As Covid wrought havoc with larger wedding plans young couples began to approach us
to ask if, perhaps, they could be married in an intimate setting among the peonies…and we said yes…
Yes is a beautiful word