Fayre, fairs and ferias

REPOSTED FROM 2015 WITH UPDATES – ACTUALLY IT BECAME UNPUBLISHED FOR SOME REASON PROBABLY DUE TO MY IMCOMPETENCE!  GOOD EXCUSE TO UPDATE SOME THINGS AND THE GALLERY ON MY OTHER WEBSITE – LINK AT THE END

I have been a bit absent recently namely because I returned to wet wet wet Blighty for a long family Christmas.  The house was a holly mess Batman, and I have been rushing around for weeks dusting and scrubbing and so forth – all with leg weights attached to counter the Christmas fayre.  Oh, and a tummy belt that sends electrical impulses to my muscles too.  It’s not just the Christmas over-indulgence, it’s all that pan con tomate that I have become addicted to in Spain as well.

Talking of fayre, I have been meaning to post some fair (feria) photos for some time, but due to the lovely old-fashioned quality of them, I decided they should mostly be in black and white.

Wow! What a trial this has been in between hurtling up and down the stairs with tons of cleaning implements.

So here are some of them up to now – far too many so you can look at more by clicking below on my photo galleries! As usual, if you want one, just get in touch with me because they are free – as long as you subscribe to my blog – also free.

Some years ago  I greeted the New Year with a letter to my mother and a series of nature photos and what the plants were called in Latin – I will have to dig FOR that too because now she is 97 and not composed mentos, so lost entirely to any other than 60 seconds. This year it’s fairs and a celebration of traditions not lost.  Though some are clearly being hijacked by commercial traders with cheap clothing and the like, at each one there remains a nucleus of local artists, local produce and fun!  For the time being.

Simple, lively, and thoroughly enjoyable. There are food fairs, art fairs, lots of horse fairs, fair fairs, antique tool fairs. Farm animal fairs.   Fairs that I know nothing about, but I love the ones I have been to so will probably love the ones I haven’t been to yet.  Especially when there is free drink and sometimes even food. It makes everything flow all the merrier.  I intend to do a lot more, to make it another project.  In the meantime, I wish everyone a positive and prosperous New Year 2025 and may this for once be a lucky number and magic away the dratted wars, power hungry dictators, inflation and recessions. And save our climate and nature!!!

P.S. I am very late with this because I am absorbed in reading all the horror of Trump and Israel and the rest. It doesn’t look like 2025 will be better, but we can only hope. My son Harvey who works for the carpenter union in San Francisco calls frequently, not wanting to talk about what is going on as it makes him anxious. And guess what we talk about?  Why is this world going backwards? – and someone post a comment of encouragement please!  Is it just as my father used to say?  Every generation thinks their epoch is the worst time since the world began. Well I span across at least two as time seems to be speeding up as well. That is exactly what I think unfortunately.

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