Purbeck Valley Folk Festival near Corfe Castle


     Purbeck Folk Festival again.  We weren't going to come again but the bug got us and we booked the Early Bird tickets.  It's never great to take photos at music festivals as you can't get close enough to the action or you're enjoying yourself that you forget to take any.
     Well, here's a few photos of what was happening away from the stages.

I'm starting my 'beard' for this years Beard Off

We had a go at clay modelling, Mike's fish on top of oyster shell.

My 'who grows grass' piece



Carol starting her beard

Multi-coloured swap shop springs to mind
I dyed in preparation for the festival

The Fire Stage

All the Beard-off competitors lining up

The real beard winner with his bee-ard!


Me and Carol with her 'Boadicea's hairy nipples

'Claire from Stonehenge'


The winners are these 3 ladies

















     One of the entertainers (I wish I could remember his name)  started a bubble show using lots of different 'tools', he got all the kids to stay behind a line until he told them that they could run forward to burst the bubbles.  There was a lot of pent- up energy being held back there.