Nauntonbury

As I mentioned earlier, village fetes are a big thing in the Cotswolds. Usually our village hasn't had one, since it's pretty small. But this year a family in the village decided to host one in their horse field to raise money for the village hall and a local hospice. Glastonbury (the music festival) wasn't held this year to let the fields re-field themselves, so they dubbed our village fete Nauntonbury and had music along with food and games. It seemed like a big success, as hundreds of people came. 

I manned the face painting booth, and painted the faces of quite a few of the village kids (and maybe a dozen or so adults, too!) I forgot to take pictures until the very end of my face painting stint, so I only got a few from my seat. It was another beautiful day and it lasted well into the night. I only face painted for the first few hours, and then we all went home. (Oh, we also made a few trays of apple cider donuts for the bake table--bringing a little New England to England :))

The kids enjoyed it, but they had more fun the night before when Eric went to help set up the food tables, and the kids and I hung signs and they "tested" the bouncy house and bungee run with their village friend (whose field it was in). They had a blast playing with them all to themselves on the night before, so when they had to share with a bunch of other kids on the day of the fete it was less fun. But they still got their faces painted and hit up the bake table! All in all, a fun day.