Jun 21, 2008

Winter Solstice Festival

FusionMotion It was Val's birthday today - happy birthday Val - and she invited us down to a Winter Solstice festival at Northey Street City Farm.

We went down there about four o'clock or so and followed Eloise around the kiddies' attractions such as face painting and wand-making with some story-telling involved and a bit of lantern painting.

After some soup, sausage sandwiches and - according to Nicole - the best ginger beer ever, we met up with Val and traded caustic comments about the "Creative Dance" that was going on on the "big stage" which was probably intended to symbolise the solstice and fertility and that sort of thing but as far as I could tell was some strange chanting with Eurovision drumming and general writhing around. Still it was, erm, interesting....

Of course there was singing and dancing too, some ethnic, some folky, and it was all very well-meant and jolly in a sort of middle-class-hippy kind of way which I'm sure many of you would approve of, and we had a nice entertaining time.

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