Geddington School’s Summer Fair

Summer Fair
All the fun of a village fair took place in the School Playground on a muggy, warm, but sunny July Saturday. The playground was filled with stalls, games, competitions and lots of food and drinks.
- The school
- and the playground
There were competitions galore. Among them were, for the price of £1, the chance of a bottle of wine, or would it be a bottle of water – would you be lucky? Or you could make a scarecrow with Lynette’s help, and after this Fair, it could be entered into the Gardening Club’s Annual Show in August. Or you could donate it to the Geddington’s Community Brickyard Garden in Wood Street. Either way there was plenty of material to hand to make a scary scarecrow.
- Nicki & Alexis have bags galore, but will it be wine or water?
- Lynette giving a helping hand
- Victoria and ‘scary’ friend
Looking after the barbecue were Nigel, Mark and Neil and alongside them, with plenty of drinks, were Vanessa and Becky. If you preferred the summer variety, Jocelyn, Dana and Marylee had summer punch and strawberries and cream. A favourite of many is the cake stall and I bought a very tasty Victoria Sponge cake from Josie and Wendy.
- Hot dogs or beef burgers? Your choice
- And a drink to wash them down
- Strawberries! Yummy!
- Cakes galore at such good prices, bound to be a sell-out!
A Village Fair wouldn’t be complete without a skill contest and archery fitted the bill. Here Owen is getting instruction, and then, if not getting the bull’s eye, it was pretty close.
- A lesson to start with
- Pretty good shot!
And in keeping with a village tradition going back centuries, there was a pair of stocks, but this time with willing ‘rogues’ Ian and the headmaster, Martin Adamson, bravely offering to be bombarded with wet sponges.
- Direct hit
- Here’s another one!
- Lucky it was a warm day, the water, and there was lots of it, was very cooling
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