An Afternoon at the Fair

Today was the annual Wimbledon Village Fair, held the Saturday before the start of the tennis championships. Despite the threat of rain (that’s what you get for organising something close to the start of Wimbledon), we popped up the hill to see what was going on.

As well as a huge funfair there was a showjumping course and a considerable amount of stalls selling home made food, drink (including delicious Devon cider), plants and other bric-a-brac. There was a bandstand, punch and judy and, much to my delight, a large number of tombolas. Erika and I profited well from these winning a huge bear, a picnic set, a kids art set and a mini bottle of champagne. All for 4 quid. Luckily we recently threw out a lot of stuff we’d never use so there are plenty of places to store my art set.

Afterwards we went to the new Le Pain Quotidien and despite the staff being rushed off their feet, had a cappuccino in a bowl the size of a swimming pool and one of their mixed berry tarts. The tart was gorgeous with strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries, none of which were overwhelmed with sugar which makes a nice change from past experiences in patisseries. An alternative to Costa/Nero/Starbucks in the village is welcome so I’m sure we’ll be going back in the future.

It’s now the start of two weeks of chaos whilst the tennis is on - got a few afternoons off work over the next couple of weeks so hopefully the weather will improve and we can spend some time at the AELTC. There has to be some advantage to living here!