At the weekend it was the annual village fair at which my friend (and former housemate) used to run a skittle alley. I say 'used to' as the skittle alley got crushed by a falling barn since last year. Here is last year's post. It threatened to rain the whole time but we were lucky. I had lunch of a piece of fruit cake, these country ladies make the BEST cakes :)
Some of the activities on offer were:
- egg throwing (two people throwing an egg back and forth at increasingly large distances until it breaks)
- ferret roulette (they put a ferret in a box and you have to guess which hole it will come out of)
- yard of ale competition (who can drink a yard of ale the quickest)
- Punch and Judy show
- pony rides
- raffle
- watching the blacksmith making horse shoes
- tea and cake tent
- local Old Father Thames ale and Pimm's
- dog show
- archery
- pet the goats
and many more.
Being in prime retired-rock-star territory, as most of Oxfordshire and Berkshire seems to be, there were raffle donations from Simply Red and Pink Floyd. However the actual pop stars that I saw in residence were these chickens which had apparently been in a Kasabian video the week before.
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i love these photos alice!!! the colors and everything is perfect, what camera did you use? btw i really like fairs with animals and all kinds of vendors and fair like activities like pet the goats, shooting tents etc. : ) thanks for sharing
Gorgeous photos! I just looked through several posts and I think I’m in love with your photography. Your pictures perfectly capture that happiness-spilling-over feeling you get on a perfectly sunny day. Thanks for sharing, I’m definitely adding this to my google reader.
Thank you both! I really appreciate your nice comments :) I used my regular Canon 450D, I think I am getting a bit better with the manual controls on it but still have much to learn.
This looks like the best show ever and those chickens definitely rock!!