On a glorious hot and sunny day today, we went to the Staple Fitzpaine church fete. This village is approx. 3 miles from us and we often pass through it on the way to Taunton. The village fete was being held in the manor house,
a lovely old house with a beautiful lake in the back garden.
There were lots of stalls, the cake stall, the bottle tombola (Neil and I both won something), the coconut shy (Neil got a coconut first try), the book stall, skittles, bric a brac and ladies hats to name but a few, as well as the prerequisite burger stand and ice cream seller.
The Wellington Silver Band were seated in the shade of a large tree and were playing when we went in. It was lovely to hear them and we stopped a while in the shade.
Later in the afternoon Punch and Judy were appearing and a dog show was taking place in the field, with afternoon tea being served in the walled garden. How nice it would be to own a pile like that, and a wonderful setting for the Summer Church fete which is only held every 3 years.
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