The 19th Nailsworth Festival started today, Saturday with a packed timetable of events taking place in the Mortimer garden and the bus station. A small hitch with the PA system left a group of singers without amplification, but a quick fiddle with a jack plug returned the sound system to it's former glory. Some lively story telling was taking place in the bus station, slightly drowned out by the old musical organ that makes it's way to all the events around here. Renishaw revealed a new secret weapon to combat street crime. I think. Looking rather like an overgrown dalek from the Dr Who series it was making it's way around the bus station attached to a human by a thick cable who was holding some sort of control device. A entertainer was at work in the mortimer garden doing his best to un-nerve people by asking for volunteers from the audience. Once you had been picked as a 'volunteer' there was no turning back. I have a photo here of him walking around with a bottle of water on his head. The volunteer is lying on the floor under him. I'd seen enough when he got the chainsaw out. As the news heading stated, the festival got off to a bang quite literally, as a car ploughed into a house at the bottom of springhill creating a rather loud crash. The festival runs until the 28th of April. For more information see the 'Notice Board' section.

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