Free ! – Spitfire display – a very parochial notice….

…for those Forumites in the mid-Herts area of the U.K.

This is my annual reminder for Burnham Green Village Day on Bank Holiday Monday (25th. August). What marks this out from most village fetes is a Spitfire display provided courtesy of John Romain, main man at ARC over at Duxford. John was brought up in the village and provides a suitable aircraft for a display slot at some point during the afternoon. He usually manages to alarm the uninitated by swoopimg down into a shallow valley behind the houses, a la Biggin Hill. If you stay outside the fete ground you can watch the display for free – if you go inside the fairground it’ll cost you a quid or so, but you’ll be able to access the portaloos and the Tombola stalls (wow indeed). Also be informed that the local hostelry – the White Horse, just behind the village green – is holding a beer festival that very day. Burnham Green can be found in the wild hinterland between Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage.
And if you see a lonely soul sitting, quietly sobbing, beneath the shade of a nearby tree – it’ll be me, lamenting the fact that I didn’t get tickets for Little Gransden the day before.