The Village Feast
As the North Wind began to blow some thought the weather might have been better - especially those under the trees. But the early week forecasts had predicted much worse and on balance we were very lucky with the weather. We were even luckier with the great crowd.
A visiting American was bemused by the whole event and thought we were all barmy. He came in and saw people with their heads in buckets of water, so he wandered into the street where people were throwing eggs at each other. Fortunately the man in a bath of cold baked beans had just left the scene and was being washed down by two men at the back of the car park. Ugh! An horrible sight.
Dominic Bowers and Paul Latchford continue to be the egg throwing champions, the Bowers family again dominated the wheelbarrow race, Andy Greenhill took the adults bowls prize, with Hannah Willmott being the champion junior.
Everyone was very generous with their cakes, bottles, books, collectables and time and the profit was £977 which goes towards the village hall maintenance costs.
I said to Mum "Let's not be late,
The village feast is always great".
There was a cake stall and a bouncy castle
And getting there was no hassle.
There was cakes and ice-creams galore
They left us all wanting more.
Mr. Doe in a bath of beans,
Take the camera it had to be seen.
The second-hand book stall was very busy
I chose lots, it made Mum dizzy!
Raising money for the village hall,
Thanks to the organisers we enjoyed it all.