Highgate Village Fair

[fuchsoid]

I missed last year’s Highgate Village fete, since I’d just come out of hospital, and anyway it rained heavily, but this year the weather was lovely, and I was fully mobile, so I spent a very pleasant Saturday there. Highgate jealously maintains its air of being an affluent little village that has somehow become engulfed by greater London, and the

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[snowballjane]

Ooh, lovely!

I really need to find that herb stall soon - there are a couple of things I'm still lacking in the garden.

[fuchsoid]

They always have a stall at the Thames Festival in September, but I'm sure they will turn up somewhere else before then. According to their website, they also do mail-order, but I've not tried them yet.

[pondhopper]

It looks lovely! So the traveling bell tower thing is to try and ring bells? I can't work out from the photo just what it's all about. For some reason your link to St. Michale's Highgate doesn't work.

I hope you feel better soon.

[fuchsoid]

They were trying to recruit more people to take up bell-ringing; the tower was a sort of miniature, with miniature bells and a similar setup to a full-sized bell tower. It sounded lovely, like a tinkly version of the main peal.