Petworth Festival

It's this time of year again. Wonderful artists from all over the world come to our little town to give concerts in St Mary's Church or Bignor Park. This year one of the events will be in Petworth House. In fact I'm going to see it this evening.
I somehow managed to get 'highly commended' in the window competition with the theme of world music. I got one of my kimono dressing gowns to play a chinese flute and made fans and bright pink flowers out of tissue paper. You can see me being presented with a bottle of Nyetimber champagne here - page 2, ninth picture along. The eighth picture is of Niki and Jackie outside Tiffins Tea Room. They won the competition with a very clever Teddy and the Tempests spoof about a group of teddies on a world tour (The Tempest is one of the Festival treats this year). The seventh photo is of John Bird outside his antique shop. He came second with his vuvuzela playing statue in a musical bikini!
The Festival opened with a free open air concert at the end of the annual Fete in the Park. As usual it was heralded around the by our town crier Mike Hubbard.