General Chat

Just got back from my local church fete - I love them!
As it was local, I spent more money and bought more junk than I should have - but got some lovely plant bargains.
I have also (finally) found a really naff display thing for my collection of naff religious icons :o)

Maggie, I love that kind of thing. I wish someone around here would hold a plant/seed swop fete, type of thingy, for instance. But , it doesn't matter whether it is a weekend, or a Bank Holiday, unless you want to get pie eyed, go on a bouncy castle, or buy a three piece suite before the sale must end on Sunday, there is never anything going on around here.
We do manage to get a few Steam and or Vintage rallies, an odd carnival, or an Agricultural/Horticultural Show, which I enjoy immensely. But, unless you want to travel to the south of the county, or up to Chatsworth, anywhere in between is sadley lacking. As for the naff type of thingy, I have to contend with the charity shops, which I enjoy, and a trip to a nearby town is pending.for quite soon.
Enjoy,enjoy
Julia in Derbyshire

PS. I also like cake stalls and food fairs, but these too are few and far between

That's a shame, Julia - how do they raise funds where you are?
My friend is taking me to the Roydon Woodfair in the New Forest tomorrow.
There wasn't much there last year - it was only the second year, but it was worth it for the venison I managed to buy - and the walk afterwards.

Maggie I just saw your heading and was transported back to a child.

I loved village fetes, but I used to love the church bring and buys / jumble sales (2 very different things).

My great aunts and my gran used to cook (jams etc) bake cakes and stitch all known sorts of things from oddments. I as a child in their care each Thursday and friday used to attend these things.....boy did I love it and I sure missed it after my great aunts died.

if I remember rightly we collected for the church roof, a new hall.

Now villages or towns don't have the same sense of .......... onemanship/belonging I can't think of the word.

but villages are different now ..Nina (Annina) can tell you about Ridgeway, a sleepy little village when I grew up there, Now there is a craft centre and money making.
No doubt Beighton is the same the money needed is no longer from the locals, so they don't worry abot them, or is it that the locals are no longer and expect the money to come from else where.

Travel is fantastic but it did sort of destroy village fairs !!

It beats me Maggie, how they raise funds.
My sister lives in a small Lincolnshire town, and the activities ther and the surrounds are endless. She recently did a cake stall, making a beetroot and chocolate cake, and last week it was a plant and seed swop.
Tomorrow, weather permitting there are three gardens open for charity, within about 8 miles, so may give them a whirl, as they always have the unusual plant for sale, which is right up my street.
We usually go to Chatsworth at the back end of the year, and they gave a farm shop amongst many other money spinners, and get stocked up on Venison and other meats.
Off now, after yet another heavy working day in the garden, for a well earned, and equally well chilled glass of Sparkiling Elderflower.
Take care now
Julia in Derbyshire