Click photo to enlarge Out to Sea from Salt Water Pool by Janet de Wagt.

Once again Macandrew Bay Primary School will be hosting the Peninsula Art and Craft Auction, a biennial event that celebrates the talents of local artists and crafts people and also supports and funds art-education programmes at Macandrew Bay school.

This is the fourth art auction that the school has organised. The auction will once again be held at Glenfalloch Chalet in its beautiful garden setting and will offer a variety of works for sale to the public by talented peninsula artists.

Click photo to enlarge A perfect dy to paint in the garden

Dunedin artist Bernadette Robertson paints the scenery at Glenfalloch yesterday during the Art in the Garden event, part of the Rhododendron Festival. Hundreds of people enjoyed the blooms, sunshine, garden art and environmental installations on display at various sites around the garden on Otago Peninsula. Ms Robertson was one of 19 artists working or exhibiting their works yesterday. In addition to the garden art, works from artists and school pupils were exhibited in the Glenfalloch homestead and other buildings.

Click photo to enlarge Woodland fairies . . . Looking for gnomes at the Cadbury Chocolate Festival ‘‘gnaughty gnomes and fabulous fairies’’

There were fairies at the bottom of the garden yesterday, and pixies in the pond, at the inaugural ‘‘gnaughty gnomes and fabulous fairies party’’, at Glenfalloch Woodland Garden.

Fairies in disguise shrieked with delight as they scrambled through the woodland on their gnome treasure hunt, part of the Cadbury Chocolate Festival.

They paused only for a spot of gumboot throwing, chocolate fishing and playing quoits with gnomes.

Sophie Broadley, of Dunedin, said she always dressed up as a fairy and had seen several real ones in the trees.