and queues...
Kingsbury Episcopi's May Festival has once again drawn in huge crowds from the surrounding towns and villages with live music, arts and crafts, local food and the usual lavender bag and pillow case displays in the high street.
Waiting times to get across the wooden bridge to the back field were only 45 minutes this year with a record short-wait of just 30 minutes at the bar at the Wyndham Arms. As the only venue selling alcohol at the event, we sympathize with the Wyndham. It begs the annual question "Why isn't there a bar at the back field near the music stage?"
"Don't be ridiculous" snapped a May Festival organizer, "that would encourage riff-raff."
Just then, the Mayor and Mayoress of Yeovil arrived, drove their people-carrier into a ditch and both fell out of the side window.
Just then, the Mayor and Mayoress of Yeovil arrived, drove their people-carrier into a ditch and both fell out of the side window.
"As we expected" said the Mayor "it's just like last year. Only one over-crowded bar at the pub right up the other end of the village.....so we've brought a case of Stella Artois, 4 gallons of cider for the kids and two dozen burgers."
"Same here" said Huish Episcopi's vicar as she tripped over a haystack and threw her cider into a selection of homemade pin cushions.
The Manager of Langport's St Margaret's Hospice shop, above left at the event this afternoon with her daughter, denied smuggling 8 bottles of Sangria into the event. "It's actually Pimms" she said as they both eyed-up two local thatchers.
