Fete-full day

Day 23

13th June 2009

It was the Langton fete, today. An all day-event featuring stalls, pillow-fighting, sumo-wrestling, plate smashing, magic show and bouncy castle; and an evening of live music from local talent.

This lady, Colette, is part of the Purbeck Environment Action Team. The Yurt featured information about transition towns, which are a really good idea, and are all about improving the local environment by supporting local trade, rather than the, ahem, larger stores; thinking green, and living more simple lives. That's not to say we should all be spinning our own yarn and living in yurts, but PEAT is about trying to motivate and empower people to live a simpler lifestyle, and about talking to the councils about how they can help their tax-paying public.

One easy example: what sort of carrot would you prefer? One that had a little bit of mud on it, was a bit knobbly and bent, and not only tasted of carrot but tasted lovely, and was grown around the corner by someone who you know, and was cheaper to buy; or a carrot that had been pulled out of the ground too early, left in a cool place for several days/weeks, cleaned and left to bobb about in a large vat of water, stored for a bit longer, flown across the sea, and packaged into plastic, put on the shelves in big supermarkets, tasted like a plastic carrot, and undersold the grower?