Village Life

I've landed just in time for Village Fete season !
My Aunt's next door neighbour has organized a local village fair to raise money for the local library, so we decided to go.
It was a fun morning with games and draws for prizes, along with bake sales and a band.
The local 12th century church was also giving tours of the tower belfry so my cousin and I decided to give it a climb.  The stairway lead up to the bellringing platorm which is used to ring the 10 bells that live at the top of the tower.   The climb up to the belfy is a steel vertical ladder that leads to a platform where there is access to the church's tower clock and a secondary vertical ladder that goes directly into the belfy amongst the bells themselves.  Not much room up there so we had to go one at a time.
In the afternoon, we went to another village fair that had some more activities going on.  There was a 'welly wanging' area (you'll have to look it up), sheep sheering demos, arts and crafts, games for the kids and adults and a full hour of dedicated to the Morris dancers (also need to google that !).
It was a sunny, fun day !