☼ Village Green ☼

This sunny Saturday we went to Village Green ~ a local arts and music event in Chalkwell Park.

It was fabulous to see friends ~ past and present in the park where I spent most of my childhood.

Some parts of it have changed and so have I.

It seemed so much bigger when I was 6 years old, sitting on the bench wrapped around the old tree with my Pa.

I sat on that bench again and listened to the sounds of reggae beats, distant acoustic guitars and the chatter of hundreds of voices.

The Park was filled with smiling faces and tents and stalls of handcrafted wares.

The air perfumed with the scent of the sea mixed with exotic foods.

(Alan never did get his curried goat)

It's avenue cheered with brightly coloured bunting made my local people in the 'longest bunting world record attempt'

One huge Circus Tent housed the Co-Exist Gallery exhibition ~ Sideshow.

Lucky me ~ my photos were included ☺

Amy & Emma curated a splendid show of oddities.
like this little picture embellished with sequins and stationery stickers
and this trapeze piece made of sewn and formed plastic
so I put my token in the bubblegum machine and got these perfect porcelain keyrings of love/loss

The day was rounded off at dusk with a screening of Yellow Submarine on a huge inflatable screen.

We sat in rows of blue & white striped deckchairs and sang "we all live in a ...." at the tops of our talked-out voices.

All you need is Love.