Got called fete lady today (humorous ish)

[sunnydalegottobedone]

Argh I've turned into crazy fete lady. In the last couple of days on numerous occasions - I've been entered into conversations as "you are the fete lady", "you are the fete lady". Would I be unreasonable to start donning a twin set and pearls?

So as not to drip feed, I do run the village fete, I think I am starting to become a fete bore, obsessed with it - can't get me to talk about anything else. To the extent I'm now starting a AIBU post about the flaming fete - HELP.

[Highalert]

Will there be a Tombola stall. I do like a nice Tombola.

[Pestilentialone]

Have you managed to get enough raffle prizes yet?

[redrobinblue]

I'll happily assist in judging the Best Cake award.

[Bubblysqueak]

Are you sure you've got enough bunting?

[choochooo]

God I love a fete! How do you become the fete lady?

[sunnydalegottobedone]

The bloody tombola...... And yes there is I could write a book on the Tombola saga got to go find some more booze for it. Is it too late to do a Calais run?

[sunnydalegottobedone]

Half my garage is full of boxes of bunting - ever tried unraveling it after a few years of good use! Tippex works wonders on mould spots

[JustHavinABreak]

How naice. Do you have a committee?

[Highalert]

Is there a tea and cake tent? I love a fete too.

[Pestilentialone]

choochoo pop down to your local fete and ask to help. Give it a couple of years and you will be begging for help in charge looking for the next fete lady

[cuckooplusone]

Do you get to do the PA announcements, I organised the school fete last year and I did enjoy hearing my strident tones marr a lovely sunny afternoon ("in a minute the recorders are performing and then we will announce the raffle")

[sunnydalegottobedone]

Cake judges are carefully selected, head of the local WI is the chief judge - all others follow.

How do you become fete lady - I have no idea, started running fetes years ago and still doing it. Tbh it's a bloody good laugh, lots of wine and OMG moments - last month is wobble, lots of FFFfffffffs and then I rock in the corner when it's all over

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

I'm "the one on all the committees", I feel your pain

I love fetes though, so thank you for organising it!

[Allthebestnamesareused]

I do hope you don't live in Midsummer Somewhere!

We all know what happens at the fete!

[sunnydalegottobedone]

We do have a committee, quite a large one tbh, who are all awesome & do loads. But for some reason I'm the one that becomes fete lady. Maybe i am projecting a twin set and pearls

Yes I do some of the announcements / not all. I like that bit, especially when my panic of fuck is anyone going to turn up is everything going to be ok - turns into this is a good turnout fuck have I got enough food

[mogloveseggs]

Don't forget the cream teas and the catch the rat game!

[NormHonal]

Best to buy some more bunting though, just in case?

Wet weather risk assessment done?

[Justmadeperfectflapjacks]

Shake it up with an Anne Summers stall. .

[sunnydalegottobedone]

allthebestnames the most that happens at ours is some grumpy shit will moan that it is not all folk music, all that youngun music rubbish when a 90s cover band comes on

[sunnydalegottobedone]

norm full risk assessment rag done. Plenty of undercover areas - tick, alternative wet weather / the show goes on - check

[RustyPaperclip]

I love a good fete, there is a distinct lack of them in London. Do you fancy branching out? I will volunteer to run the coconut shy

[TheSecondOfHerName]

Will there be a welly wang? There's nothing like a good wang.

[sunnydalegottobedone]

rusty you need to move to the country. We do rocking fetes out in the sticks. Cricket, pimms, tug of war, cream teas, piss up real ale, and the quasi country music. If I say much more I will put myself - as we have a lot entertainment. That does not include me rocking in the corner nursing a 4 hour old pimms after it is all over!!

[sunnydalegottobedone]

second duh of course there is a Wellie wang - goes without saying.

[Andylion]

I love the word "tombola". It sounds like an Italian cheese or the name of the heroine in a romance novel set in some exotic locale, "Tombola de la Vega", Duchess of Something or Other".

I know it's not cheese, but, what, exactly, is it? It's not just a raffle, is it?

(I'm not in, or from, the UK, Fete Lady, can you help me out?)