After my comments yesterday on how few children seemed to be involved in the Whit Walks in our village, I found some old photos of Whit Walks from years ago, with lots of children dressed in traditional white.
There are also a couple of photos showing how traditionally it rained on their parade.
Maybe there are fewer children involved nowadays because we have an aging population in most pf the villages. Also perhaps it’s also because families with young children are priced out of houses around here.
We walked into the village in the afternoon yesterday and saw bands that walked in
played their obligatory piece for judging
and then left the village via the bridge that featured long ago in the film “Brassed Off”.
Out and about collecting small children from school earlier this week, I noticed that it seems to be well-dressing time again, at least in nearby Greenfield. The Delph well-dressers have done nothing so far. In neither case is there any sign of a well, just the dressing.
But in a world that seems to be going crazy, we are keeping up traditions.
After a quite hot and sunny day yesterday, today is rather muggy and very dull. It even tried to rain on me as ai ran round the village. And although we have had bits of sunshine, it did rain quite heavily in the late morning. However, according to this article, despite the rain we have had over the last week or so, Yorkshire has bow joined the Northwest of England as a declared drought area. The reservoirs are lower than they should be for the time of year.
And, according to some reports, it’s not going to get much better. In fact we may be due for a hot summer. We shall see. All the rain has done is encourage the crop of buttercups in our back garden … which now needs cutting once again.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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