Saturday 20th September

As with last year, the Scarecrow Festival has been timed to fit with the village show that is held each year at the Methodist Church. So, if you grow flowers or vegetables; bake cakes or make jams and chutneys; knit, crochet or embroider; then collect the schedule from Taylor’s Florist or the Community Library and enter! I’d be delighted if someone could knock me off my perch as second prize winner for my jam! In the past there has even been a class for baking disasters. I’ve been too embarrassed to enter that one, but I could tell the story of the cake that was so underdone it fell though the cooling rack…

Coinciding with the show will be this year’s Scarecrow Festival.

This year it’s not restricted to clubs, so village residents are welcome to make a scarecrow.

We’re inviting scarecrows on a World War II theme, to commemorate the anniversary of VE day but, in case this doesn’t take your fancy, also Classic Scarecrows. You know the sort - the ones that scare the crows!

Scarecrows with a 1940s feel can include evacuees, models of Spitfires, a family in an Anderson shelter - whilst I admit families with primary age children will have an advantage on this, the only limits are the limits of your imagination.

You have plenty of time to think about this and to design your scarecrow. There will be a leaflet to buy that will tell you where all the scarecrows can be viewed and allow you the chance to win a prize by designing and creating the People’s Choice - a chance for people buying the leaflet to choose and vote for their favourite scarecrow and the resident who gets the most votes will receive a small prize and bragging rights for a year. Details will be on the leaflet. Any selfies you take with scarecrows in can be posted on the Events Instagram page: @busca_le12.

If you decide to do a scarecrow you need to email me at info@busca.org.uk by 1st September, (to give my slow typing a chance to type up the leaf et), telling me your address and giving me permission to include you on my list of supporters  and agreeing to me putting your address on the leaf et as a place to view a scarecrow.

Watch out for posters, get your thinking caps on and I can’t wait to see your Scarecrows on 20th September.

Helen Sadler