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All hail the Wassail Queen
We wassailed the fuck out of that orchard. :oD
I did about 3 hours of pruning work, then milled about a bit with the growing crowd. I thought a recognised someone who I thought lives on my road, and then his dog ran up and confirmed it, so I said hello. He handed me a hammer and spade. (I hadn't thought to bring anything with which to make noise.)
5 minutes later I was the Wassail Queen. Fortunately all this seems to entail is taking the first sup from the Wassail Cup, and leading the noise-making, both of which are well within my comfort zone. :oP
The trees were decorated with ribbons:
The instruments ranged from proper folk musicians with instruments to pots and pans and empty cans, and a couple of small choir groups.
One guy had brought a load of fire lanterns - the kind that you light and let fill with hot air then let go and they fly off.
He was mostly letting the kids do it, but I was allowed to light and launch one, too. (Wassail Queen, you know!)
The atmosphere was fantastic. There were probably nearly 100 people there, although it's a little difficult to know how many kids there were - they were all over the place. One kid, probably about 4 years old, very kindly banged my spade for me for a bit as my hands were getting tired. :o)
I didn't think to take my camera (and I couldn't have taken any pics when I was doing my thing with the hammer and spade), which I am gutted about. These were taken on my phone, so sorry about the quality issues.
I did about 3 hours of pruning work, then milled about a bit with the growing crowd. I thought a recognised someone who I thought lives on my road, and then his dog ran up and confirmed it, so I said hello. He handed me a hammer and spade. (I hadn't thought to bring anything with which to make noise.)
5 minutes later I was the Wassail Queen. Fortunately all this seems to entail is taking the first sup from the Wassail Cup, and leading the noise-making, both of which are well within my comfort zone. :oP
The trees were decorated with ribbons:
The instruments ranged from proper folk musicians with instruments to pots and pans and empty cans, and a couple of small choir groups.
One guy had brought a load of fire lanterns - the kind that you light and let fill with hot air then let go and they fly off.
He was mostly letting the kids do it, but I was allowed to light and launch one, too. (Wassail Queen, you know!)
The atmosphere was fantastic. There were probably nearly 100 people there, although it's a little difficult to know how many kids there were - they were all over the place. One kid, probably about 4 years old, very kindly banged my spade for me for a bit as my hands were getting tired. :o)
I didn't think to take my camera (and I couldn't have taken any pics when I was doing my thing with the hammer and spade), which I am gutted about. These were taken on my phone, so sorry about the quality issues.