The lease is up this month on the house we are currently in, so we've just started to move into another one. It's going to be a long month! But on the plus side, we had a great weekend. After a few weeks of thinking we lived in the hail capital of the world (seriously, it has hailed here like every day for the last 2 weeks. I've seen more hail in the last month than all the rest of my years combined!)So, I was happy to see something good like this rainbow as I looked out my office window. Was good weather (aka Spring) finally here?
Yes! A lovely bank holiday weekend with 3 days off. Friday night found us driving down to Portsmouth (along with half of London I think on the M3) to see two of my favorite comics - French & Saunders. A really good show. Of course the running gag was who was the bigger UK comedy queen - Jennifer Saunders with Absolutely Fabulous? or Dawn French with The Vicar of Dibley? I don't know. A toss-up on that one. :)
In between moving things, we ended up stopping at a Scarecrow festival we kept passing on the way to the new house. Scarecrows? In May? What is this all about?
Well, this is one of the really fun things I am enjoying about England. This sort of community creativity. I would see sparks around Houston here and there. But these small villages continue to surprise me with their ideas. Case in point - Scarecrow Festival.
In order to help raise money for their local store, one village had its residents make up scarecrows. The theme was 'Song Titles'. A clue sheet was sold to everyone and you walked around looking at the various scarecrows (they were all numbered) and had to figure out not only which one was which, but the song title each represented. What a neat idea! Almost all the songs were things even most kids know, so a good family event. Temps in the low 70s F and no rain, so even Penny dachshund came out with us for a walk around and enjoyed herself. I just think this was the neatest idea. Hardly anything fun happens in April and May.
Mr. TeamKing was also happy to see that a cricket game was going on at the same time in the village.
