Thursday, 1 July 2010

Riccall Carnival 2010

What a fab weekend we had.  It was Riccall Carnival, lots of things to do and see.  As parking is pretty limited up at the community centre, the organisers put on a double decker bus to pick up the villagers and take them to the fair - what a brilliant idea.

Henrietta wanted her face painting, by the very talented Dawn Smith


Who turned my daughter into a beautiful .......................


.................................. butterfly

Also at the carnival were some gorgeous vintage cars, Charlie liked the little red bubble car - and who could blame him



The weather was just perfect, which meant lots of villagers


My friend Helen had a stall selling her wonderful Phoenix Trading cards.  These are just the most beautiful cards you can buy.  Visit her here to see more: www.phoenix-trading.eu/web/helendrye 


Charlie won what I thought was an owl on the raffle - he quickly informed me it was a baby penguin, still not convinced.


On Sunday, we packed up a picnic and headed for the village green, where there was a live singer, rides for the kids, drum playing - dont ask, you can just see my two in the bottom left of the photograph - Charlie has an orange top on and Henrietta has a black vest top on



 The kids really enjoyed themselves, it was such a wonderful weekend.  Its great when the village comes together like this - I really cant imagine living anywhere else.

I will leave you with a photograph of our very pretty village church - St Mary's

6 comments:

  1. You look as though you all had a brilliant time and how great that our British Summer is playing it's part at the moment. So many things are spoiled if the weathers bad.

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  2. Glad the visit by our Bubblecars brought a few smiles!
    Jim

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  3. Sounds like you had a wonderful day and what gorgeous children you have!!!From the great pictures you have taken I can see you live a lovely place......Karenxxxx

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  4. Oh looks like you guys had fun then!!! So are so lucky to live in a wee village and not a pretty anonymous town... Hopefully get to see you in a few weeks!!! Can't wait...x

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  5. Looks like it was a really good day and you had the weather for it too :)

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