I live in an area which has been recently dubbed the most miserable place to live, by Rightmove. However, 2015 is the 50th anniversary of becoming a London borough and to celebrate they have held a huge range of activities for the entire community.
It's a fantastic idea, with events taking place throughout the summer holidays for children and at the weekends for everybody.
Today we went to the cider and steam fair, which seemed to have a quintessentially British aura about it.
All in all it was a really lovely event and one which gave me the opportunity to meet and chat with one of our local councillors. That said, we did find it slightly bizarre that, at a cider fair, there was only one bar. Of course one bar meant a queue which took about 25 minutes to get from back to front, on one of the hottest days of the year! We were all asked not to bring our own drink onto the site, but of course many people did. Who can blame them, when there were no bag checks as you went into the park.
Perhaps I overstepped the mark but, in my head, I had envisaged a bar at which we would be able to try lots of different types of cider, perhaps sampling some new and different ones? In contrast, the one bar provided the highly rare Bulmers original and Bulmers berry as well as that classic cider, Fosters. Not quite what people would typically anticipate from an event that marketed itself as a steam and cider fair.
There were plenty of steam engines, however, with a few classic British engines, police cars, and even a display American style 'fire engine'. The latter was really interesting as it was billed as being able to do 'wheelies' and it certainly delivered. Very clever stuff!
Have any of you been to summer fairs this year?
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