Carnival & Music Festival !!!

Carnival  & Music Festival !!!  Yeah, that’s the polite name for it.  The Carnival is as it says.  A Carnival.  A procession of floats through the town then ending up at the local park for people to have a look round.  They have a few amusements in the park for the kids and some shows, like a dog show and the local Majorettes doing their thing and other kind of shows like that.  This all happens on the Saturday. 

On the Sunday we have the ‘Music Festival’ aka ‘Piss-up in the Park’ because that’s what happens.  We go to the park and get pissed up.  The page on Facebook says  ‘Join us this afternoon for the second half of our Carnival weekend for an afternoon of great music from some fantastic bands.  Dance the afternoon away or sit down and relax while enjoying the sunshine and music.  Fair rides for the kids, plenty of food stalls and not forgetting the beer tent for all you adults.  ** Something different this year..... for those of you that bring your wheel barrow..decorate your barrows and a prize will be given to the best one on the day **’

Pfft.  Who needs a beer tent when we have cooler boxes and beer.  And wine.  And Cider.  And Pernod.  And Vodka.  And ....   basically anything else we might fancy on the day.  We’re not sure which alcoholic beverages we are taking yet.  We did go shopping today and stocked up on beer but it’s not ALL for the ‘piss-up’.  It was just that Sainsburys and Tesco have certain beers on offer so we done the double.  We went to both stores and sorted out the beer choice !

As for the bands -  I’m not sure about the words ‘fantastic bands’.  They do have a variety of bands from mid-day in the local park.  We normally get there at about 2pm but the best bands really start at about 5pm.  It then goes on until 9pm that night.  As for decorating the wheelbarrow – this is for some people that carry their beer to the ‘piss-up’ in a wheelbarrow.  Then they take the beer out and the wheelbarrow doubles as a barbecue.  Never mind that, we just take some rolls and sandwiches.  I’ve found it’s much easier to do this than to piss about trying to get a barbecue going in a wheelbarrow when you’re half pissed.  It’s a yearly thing.  We don’t get out often so we do like to make the most of it.  My mum normally gives us a lift home afterwards.  We all kind of pile round her house waiting for ‘mums taxi’.  It’s normally at this point that she says ‘are you drunk’.  We don’t even go there.  So ...  watch this space.  The ‘Carnival & Music Festival’ is next weekend.  Pictures to follow.  Maybe.  I’m not always good drunk in charge of a camera !