Sunday 21st June 2009, 00:44

Fete accompli

Found a fete at the bottom of my garden today. It's the nice thing about the first year in a new house - you don't know what it's like in all the seasons until they happen. There I was working on my neverending tax return this morning (only 3 weeks late for my accountant at the mo - an improvement on last year by 3 months. If I were to hand it in tomorrow. Which I won't.), and heard some marching band music from the garden shed. Either the woodlice have put on a miniature carnival in there, or it's from beyond there, and sure enough, I peered over the fence to find hordes or proud parents watching their little sprogs dancing. Bless 'em.

So we popped round, and 50p's entrance fee later found the All Saints Church Summer Fete. Woo! Tombola, raffle, cake stall, book stall, bouncy castle (for the kids - darnit), hook-a-duck, squirt-a-can... all sorts of family fun set against the backdrop of our garden fence. I say 'family fun' cos that's what it was - for families. We don't have kids, so didn't quite feel at home (even though it was our home), and probably were just as much there to check no one threw Coke cans over into our garden as much as anything. But I bought a book for 50p and I'm sure I'll be back next year, with a matter of years before I'm hosting a Bric-a-Brac stall or something.

For now though, it proves a very nice afternoon - back in the house as I write this, the jazz band have started up and our garden is serenaded with The Girl From Ipanema. I may even turn off my Roxette CD in a minute and listen to it.

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