Aldbrough Feast - General
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Children's Activities
 | Tuesday is the day for specifically children's activities at the Feast. It starts in the afternoon with a children's party where there is a fancy dress competition and entertainment. This year Professor Nincompoop entertained them but as I'm too old (by just a few months) for the children's party, I missed it. However, I'm told he did lots of magic tricks, told lots of really good jokes that made all the children laugh, had everybody singing and was dressed in a real clown coustume.
The fancy dress was won by Katy Darkings dressed as a bunch of grapes and a little boy dressed as a Roman centurion (we still need to find his name)
After the party it was down to the village green for the sports. Most of the old favourites of village sports - flat races, sack races, wheelbarrow races etc - are there with divisions by age groups and Nigel Hall gets the whole thing organised with great efficiency on his computer.
Here is a small selection of pictures from the sports . |
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Hobby horse
 | | It can sometimes be a bit difficult getting the horses lined up ready for the off. |
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But
 | | once they're off .... |
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The Sack Race
 | Lots of kids want to take part in the sack race but it just depends how many sacks there are.
They're certainly going at it with enthusiasm. |
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More Sack Race
 Come the 2012 Olympics Aldbrough has a definite possibility of having a champion in the sack race. |
Wheel barrow Races
 | | Nigel Hall spends some time getting everyone lined up in an orderly fashion and explaining just what they have to do. |
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However,
 | | this reinvention of the wheel soon proves to be not a great improvement. |
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Parent & Child Wheelbarrow
 | | So the parents are brought in to run wheelbarrow races in an orderly fashion |
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Orderly Fashion?
 | | And they prove to be even more competitive and chaotic than just the kids! |
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3 Legged race
 | | This starts with children's heats and a collection of ties that can be dated almost to the month that they were fashionable, is brought into use. |
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3 legs again
 | | Once they got going some of this year's pairs proved to be quite good. |
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More legs
 | | Even the older kids were game to have a go at the 3 legged race. |
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The Parents Again
 | | We had to let the parents have another go so there's a parent and child 3 legged race. Here they are starting to line uo. I think some of the ties were either their old school ties or ones they really thought would wow the girls back in 1975. |
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..and once again
 .. the honour is not in the taking part. It's only the winning that counts. |
Mum's Run
| There's a nice gentle little run for the mums - but once they've been persuaded to take part... |  |
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Welly Throwing
 | | There were three separate welly throwing contests going on simultaneously for different age groups. We only managed to get into a position safe enough to photograph the tinies. |
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Jumbo Sack Race
 | | This year one team actually managed to work out a form of locomotion that was effective without flagrant cheating. |
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Jumbo Sack Race still
 | This team look as if they are still trying to get going long after everyone else has gone home. it wasn't quite that bad. However, the parents seem to have exhausted themselves on piggy back and 3 legged races as they could not be persuaded to drive the jumbo sacks.
All the Children's Sports results are published in THE PARISH, October edition. Copies are available in Aldbrough Post Office or the church. |
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Dog Race
 | The Children's Sports are followed by the Dog Race - and the dogs are even harder to control than the parents.
It's run several times just to prove that it all really is totally fair, unbiased and there's no cheating.
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Gone to the Dogs
 | | And the competitors are in there somewhere |
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Fun of the Fair
 | | While the Sports are on Low Green, up on High Green the fairground is getting ready to open. All the village children get something so they go and spend it at the fair. This is a favourite with the young children. |
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The Fun of the Fair
 The young daredevils enjoy this slide |
Dodgems
 | While the teenagers test their driving skills on the dodgems.
And when we get up next morning most of the fair has been packed away and moved on to Eppleby.
And on Wednesday evening there is the quoits match which unfortunately we didn't manage to photograph. |
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