Ah, Well its British weather for you

Every year a group of parents get together to put an open air concert at the local school. Great fund raiser and gives the performers a feel of real value. A paying audience (£5.00 per person) can bring chairs, table, hamper, booze, candelabras, flags, rugs brollies etc, Parking very close to the site so nothing to much trouble. Some seasoned campaigners even bring their own Gazebos.

Its a great night were parents and friends enjoy an evening of light music played to a very high standard. The night's finally is a firework show. The door open at 5:30 to about 300 souls and the concert starts at 7:30 finishing at 10:30.

Unfortunately this year disaster hit, Four of us put the two Gazebos up on Friday night, as usual and by Saturday (5:30) when we next had access to the school we found the mangled wreckage on the school roof. Photo shows part of the recovered wreckage.

But in true British spirit the concert went on inside with some of the audience in the corridors and as usual it was a Grrreeaaatttt Night.

We have lost a friend over the week end’

Well if the truth was told, we decided what we think was a WWII water butt ought to be retried. A 15 ft. round 3ft high galvanised steel collapsible portable pool had served as a swimming puddle for 25+ years and before us, other families. Year after year the kids and friends had great fun in it; a place to chill after a game of tennis or badminton on a hot summer’s day.I ought to point out that the pool is shown above in the process of being dismantled. I was quite presentable a few minutes before the photo.

These water butts were placed on street corners during the blitz and were easy access to water for fire crews. Never quite sure how the first family got their hands on it, but needless to say many generations of different families enjoyed it. It was sometimes hard to get to the water for the amount of toys such as these on it.

THe Motorbike Rider and the Kid Surfer were always amongst the favorite