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Fête accompli
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By Ruth D'Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener

The Wildlife Gardener likes to get out sometimes. And what she likes most is something that's a bit original. Not for her generic shopping malls with identikit chain stores, theme parks with vomit-inducing plastic rides or restaurants that serve curly lettuce and red onion garnishes.

One date is set in stone on la famille Wildlife Gardener's calendar (and they even missed a wedding in Italy for it): the second week in July, the local village fête.

How can a village fête be original? Surely it's all shell animals...

Shell animals

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...and coffee and walnut cake?

Coffee and walnut cake

Well yes, but where else could you play ferret bingo, where you put the ferret in the bin, then choose a number. The ferret then emerges from out of one of the numbered drainpipes. If it emerges from your number you win...

Ferret Bingo

...or join in a tug of war against a 13-ton tractor (and almost win)?

Tractor tug-o-war

Where could your kids beat up other people’s kids without intervention by Health & Safety?

Pole fight

And ride off into the sunset in the back of a pickup truck?

In the pick-up

Thanks to the Village Fête Committee – another triumph!

4 comments so far, see them and add yours here!

Posted on 16th July 2008 at 11 10 pm
by The Wildlife Gardener
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Categories: Health and Safety, Notes from a Wildlife Garden
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Comments:

Comment from: ghostmoth Email
Sign me up for ferret bingo! You could go one further and have a ferret lucky dip...!
PermalinkPermalink 18/07/08 @ 17:24

 

Comment from: The Virtual Ranger [Admin] Email · http://naturenet.net
Ow! I reckon it should have been called Ferret Rou1ette.
PermalinkPermalink 18/07/08 @ 19:43

 

Comment from: Yaffle Email · http://www.grovesdyke.co.uk
Whatever happened to Splat the Rat..?
PermalinkPermalink 23/07/08 @ 00:52

 

Comment from: The Wildlife Gardener [Admin] Email
Ghostmoth - perhaps it could be called the Richard Whitely Memorial Ferret Lucky Dip. Or unlucky dip maybe.
PermalinkPermalink 24/07/08 @ 21:04

 

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