Fête accompli

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…

…and 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…

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

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

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

Thanks to the Village Fête Committee ” another triumph!