The first revival of the medieval revel "Church House Ale" took place on Monday May 29th. This should have been the following weekend at Whitsun, but another major event had already been planned for the area on that date. Everyone was holding their breath because, for the couple of weeks leading up to the day, had been continual rain. In a way, we were lucky in that the rain stopped on the day before but, in another way, we were unfortunate as the day was cold and windy whilst Whitsun was warm and sunny. However, there was good support from the locals and a fair sprinkling of visitors as well. Apart from the weather, everyone had a good time in the afternoon, the evening simple meal with lots of talking, music and dancing was really what a community occasion wants to be and, as a bonus, the whole event was financially profitable.

There is a meeting planned for the 13th June to discuss what went wrong, what went right and how we can make next year even better. There may possibly be a more formal report on the event after this. To save space, I have tried to put description and comment on the following photos on the 'alt tag'. If you want to know who is dancing, speaking etc. hover your cursor over the picture. I apologise for the technical quality of some photos as I was shooting video at the same time and missed some events so I had to 'capture' the lower quality still shot from the video. I hope the happy faces are worth a bit of blur.