To love a good old fashioned village fête?

[ButteredRadishes]

I don't want your professional fair ground side shows and rides where it's. £5 to win some generic cuddly toy.

I love a hook a duck in a paddling pool that Alice loaned them, where you win a little lolly.

a whack a rat made from some drain pipe 30 years ago and a sorry looking rat.

I love a tombola, don't care if or what I win.

Coconut shy? Take my money! Lucky dip? Even better!

I'll happily buy a cake and a jar of jam from the stalls.

. there's just something pleasant about spending a 50p on the possibility of winning a random bar if chocolate, or a can of soup on the tombola because you ngor a 0 or a 5 🤣

Oh yes.
love me a plant stall as well.

Me too! And I absolutely love a good bottle tombola...I'm not interested in winning booze...just a bottle of squash and some supermarket shower gel will do me!

The bric a brac stall. Yes please!

And a brass band! Got to have a brass band at a village fete!

Definitely! Can we have a produce show as well please?

Love a second hand book stall...I have a slight obsession with vintage cook books and you can usually find them in such places.

Used to love these as a kid. I’m old enough to remember village fetes with Punch and Judy, morris dancers and 20p horse rides! And my dad won us goldfish throwing darts at large playing cards.

And a BBQ where you can buy a sausage in a bun for a quid.

Oh and a exhibition square where the little kids bands play, or the gymnastics or dance club do a display.... A little dog show where kids bring their dogs and win a rosette!

Guess the weight of the vicar. A chaotic dog show. Beat the Goalie with an over l-competitive dad. All total classics.

Don't forget the Morris dancers on at 2 pm followed by tug-o-war

Oh yes, love the tug of war, for winning nothing more than bragging rights

Ohhhh and scooping marbles into an upside down flower pot as fast as you can in the hopes of winning a bar of Galaxy or similar.

Guess the sweets in the jar (I actually won this once when I was 10... heaven!)

Yes I'll have slice of flapjack, and a chocolate crispy cake, and a slice of lemon drizzle all for £1.75

Bran tub lucky dip. One for boys one for girls

Me too! I love a good village fête 😍
Especially the book stalls, craft stalls and bric a brac.

I love all of this, and many happy childhood memories. Unfortunately they seem to be dying out as it's always tough to find volunteers to help. I encourage you to volunteer for your local one!

Yes yes yes and a hundred times yes @ButteredRadishes

Ours is tomorrow. Ancient wooden stalls that have been in the scout hut since c 1982, lots of tat (some cheap plastic, some wholesome), tea tent, beer tent, plant stall, second hand book stall that will be groaning with the weight of unwanted books and will probably make £3.25 in four hours. Church stalls, scouts/guides/cubs/brownie stalls, local businesses setting up a table advertising their stuff but offering treats to the littlies as well. Lovely community spirit and everyone just coming together and having a fab day out.

Love it love it love it. Think I'm looking forward to it more than some of the kids are

Love finding the home made chutney and jam stall. Always a sucker for a nice jar of tomato chutney or hand made lemon curd.

I do!

Same!

There's a lady nearby who does chilli jam 😄😄😄

I’m lucky enough to live somewhere with zillions of fetes, so this time of year we can go to one at least twice a month. DD loves them too. We go to as many as we can and I rate them out of 10.

My favourite one was last weekend, absolutely spot on as usual with morris dancers and a proper maypole. Perfection.

YES! All of the above!

For a few weird school summer holidays as a geeky teenager, me and my best friend and our younger sisters used to tour all our local villages to visit them all.

Candy floss, mini bouncy balls, tombolas, guess the name of the teddy, bric a brac stalls and and those blow up balloon/balls attached to elastic that you bounced backwards and forwards were my favourites.

My village is having it's first one since pre covid this year. I don't think they're what they were in thee 90s/00s but I'm looking forward to the stalls.

Jealous

I can't resist a second hand book stall! There's something about second hand books that appeals to me that I just don't get with brand new books.

I like the weird produce contests like ‘Biggest Marrow’.