Yesterday they held the annual Party in the Park at the cricket and bowling club up the road from our house. Party in the Park is a kind of music festival, organised I think by the Wake Up Delph Committee, with a bunch of tribute bands. This year they had a Dolly Parton, among other acts. Gates opened at 3.00pm but already at 9.00am there was music playing loudly as they erected stands and got themselves sorted. I have no idea where the Party Goers parked; there were parking restrictions in force already first thing in the morning.
In the afternoon, as I pruned rose bushes, cut back ferns and pulled up pampas grass (I think that’s what it is) that has been spreading like wildfire in our front garden, wits and wags on their way to the Party, laden with folding chairs, made jokes about offering to help! Offers that were never fulfilled!
When we went out for a walk round the village later, the music was going strong. An almost friend (one of those people you stop and talk to casually on a regular basis while out and about but never find out what their names are) was out tending her flower beds. She told us she had been about to give up and go indoors but she was enjoying the music and so invented further gardening excuses to remain outdoors.
Fortunately for the Party People the rain held off until late into the evening! I’m not sure whether they managed the closing fireworks before or after the rain arrived but the rain certainly arrived with a vengeance.
On the subject of music, I hear that Labi Siffre has issued a cease and desist order on Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) for using his anti-apartheid song (Something inside) So Strong at the recent “unite the kingdom” rally in central London. “Anybody who knows me and knows my work since 1970 will know the joke of them using the work of a positive atheist, homosexual black artist as apparently representative of their movement,” 80 year old Labi Siffre said in an interview with the Guardian.
Robinson is not the first to misuse songs at political event. Trump has tried to make use of Bruce Springsteen and Theresa May is still remembered for ‘dancing’ onto the stage at her party conference to Abba’s Dancing Queen!
And apparently the Daily Mail has been saying the Fleetwood Mac plan to reunite to play at J K Rowling’s sixtieth birthday party. That would be rather difficult, not to say impossible.
Yesterday a flier was pushed through our letter box, inviting us to take our gold and silver to a local community centre and possibly sell it. Strange!
I am also intrigued by advertisements on the television for Vinted, I think it is, an organisation to which you can send your various valuable knickknacks, in return for which they will send you money. In one of these advertisements a smiling woman sits in a room cluttered with expensive-looking ornaments and suchlike stuff.
Who are these people who have been hoarding gold and silver and watches and ornaments of value?
We have clearly missed that boat! Our clutter is not of great value!
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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