Alrewas Show - What A Day...

Now I know that the first thing that comes to your mind when I say the 132nd Annual Agricultural and Horticultural Village Show is sad and boring, but I want to give you a brief resume on how it actually is, the Alrewas Way.

Now you must firstly understand how the populous of the village is made up. There is a core group of "oldies" who regularly frequent the George And Dragon and queue up outside the co-op at 7am to but their paper. These are mostly people who have lived in the village all of their life and are really important people in the history of the village. So much have changed and developed and grown in such a relatively short time in history for these people to be able to tell the tales of.

There is another band of people in the village who are the true heart of the things that go on in the village. These people often have differing views. Some are from the previously mentioned group of folk, and others are new-comers to the village and some the second, third and more generations of village families and names. The sort of names that crop up regularly throughout the churchyard.

These are the people who organise so much stuff in the village. We are in a very privileged position to have so many people in this group of people who do stuff for the community. There is the Arts Festival Committee, the Alrewas Show Committee, the Civic Society, The Village Hall, The Scouts, The Arts Council and many other people who do stuff for all of these different groups and are little off-shoots of these groups. With so many events on the annual calendar including the Village Show, Bonfire Night, The Arts Fest, The Canal And Music Fest, there is so much going on that allows people to really enjoy village life to it's full.

And that was at it's most obvious yesterday at the Alrewas Show. Not only did the committee do an absolutely amazing job under the new chairmanship but the community participation and collaborations  with Arts Fest providing the bar, scouts doing BBQs and the whole village really pulling together to make a day very special in the village calendar.

I was dutifully at work at 6.30 this morning, after a really enjoyable evening at the show after party, and all I heard was how amazing this day had been. That, with the combination of last year's Arts Fest and the coming Canal Festival, the events put on by village folk are really coming on leaps and bounds in variety, fun, interest and success. 

The village however, have really captured the essence of all of this fundrasing in the most effective formula, simply: Cheap Beer. Good Music. Good Night. 

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