EXCITING DAY - THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN TOWN.
Had a hasty brekky, so much to see! The TOWN CRIER kept yelling at us to get out and join in with the fun. We could hear him followed by the SAMBA BAND as we ate our scrambled eggs and stuff.
Stepped out of our garden to find we had become the FESTIVAL BUS STOP! We clambered over the knackered man who was sitting in our little gateway and attempting to catch his breath.
It was in full swing when we got there, people, music, sunshine, shopping, MARVELOUS!
The MARKET was bustling with home spun goods and folks.
We didn't see any ducks in the stream, but plenty of kids doing what ever it is kids do in water.
RUTH LIENGAARD and ACCOMPLICE accompanying her FRANTIX brother.
and all the children he had in his grip.
I loved the SAMBA BAND.
I loved their sense of RHYTHM
and DRESS (is this a shot of Sam? If it is, then the wig's well in character)
We wandered up to St Georges Park. Over the last few days some men had been practising their erection - LOL. We thought there might be a stealth Nailstock happening.
NO SUCH LUCK
People are so CHICKEN
All we found was a few locals sitting in puddles of shade, well away from the Hurley burly in the town centre.
LUNCH BECKONED.
Home we sauntered, retracing our steps, bumping into old and new friends on the way.
As we sat down to eat, we could hear the NAILSWORTH SILVER BAND serenading us, followed by The Strollers singing sweetly to us as we ate our lunch. Now that's got to be better than the Town Crier yelling at us, hasn't it?
Boy was it HOT out there.
Yes, it's pushing 90F! (It's a max min thermometer, which makes the temperature look even higher than it was, look for the 'kink' in the mercury and take reading there).
EVENING
It's cooler. What's on?
CULTURE - POETRY SLAM, VERSES BANDS??
Bands, OBVIOUSLY.
This must have been the most discrete event of the day. Here is a picture of some of the BUNTING at NYCE (The Boys Club) celebrating and PROMOTING a day of activities which were culminating in 3 great bands.
It was a puzzle to this monkey how anyone found out about any of it!
The folks at the Official Festival Office, were very testy about it, when we asked them why we couldn't find it in the Festival Brochure. They said, and I quote,
It was a puzzle to this monkey how anyone found out about any of it!
The folks at the Official Festival Office, were very testy about it, when we asked them why we couldn't find it in the Festival Brochure. They said, and I quote,
Nothing to do with us. Not an official event.
END OF CONVERSATION.
We only found out about it because we'd called into the BOYS CLUB to check out an art exhibition and fell into general conversation with an organiser. There were a few small (A5 sized), monochrome flyers around the town, which I had noticed and genuinely took to be pushing a festival food venue: CHICKEN STOCK. Why bother to read on, We're both VEGGIES!
WHO WAS AT THE INAUGURAL CHICKEN STOCK?
NO ONE ...... ALMOST.
The bands were great, the hula hooping dancer and her crazy, but stunningly brilliant (gotta be seen to be believed, sooooooooo fab) man and woman dancing combo and Anna the violinist bopping about, added a spinkling of fairy dust to the empty hall. I didn't take the camera, but once again,
THANK YOU CRAZY DANCERS; THE BANDS WERE GREAT, BUT YOU WERE GREATER
Somehow the pub felt like coming home after a long day
EVERYONE'S A JOKER!!!
Gone midnight before we rolled home. Lovely day and not a moment spent working on the house:
We were greeted by this May Bug on our Amaryllis.
We were greeted by this May Bug on our Amaryllis.
PERFECT
Not as good as the flying club do!!!
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