LATEST EVENTS - The Spring Fairy Fair - Narborough
Hall, Norfolk, May 2006
If you missed Fairy Houses, then you really missed something quite amazing. Children made an astonishing array of homes in miniature, using natural materials from in and around the beech, box and yew wood along the ramparts of the Iron Age Henge at Narborough Hall. Quiet and dappled under the yews, the resulting 'Fairy village' was probably the most magical thing we've yet seen at any Fair. It was hard to photograph but we've posted a few below which will give you an idea. (If you've got any good ones you'd like to share, then email us at sarah@fairylandtrust.org.)
Around 7,000 people attended the Fair - despite the 'variable' weather - and enjoyed all the old trails, entertainments and workshops plus some news ones such as Fairy Jewellery and Flower Fairies. Cooking for Trolls was a culinary experience that few who saw it will forget - the Trolls are still getting the sawdust out of their teeth - and only now getting over an encounter with the giant frog in the River Nar!
Many thanks to Jo Merrison and Robert Sandelson who very generously donated their house and grounds for the second year running - it took three weeks from start to finish to set up and take down the Fair, which is one reason why we could do so much more at a permanent site. (You can help make this happen by becoming a Fairyland Founder - see how to help).
Special thanks also to the 190 crew - volunteers and temporary staff who all worked far more than they were paid for - without whom we wouldn't have had walkabouts such as Pan, the storytellers under the tree, the pirate panto', dragon-making, the Fairy Queens or many other events including of course the workshops.
We provided 1200 workshop bookable places each day, which is simply as many as we can do with the staff and resources available. Two workshops ran all day each day on a drop-in basis. We're sorry if some people had to queue or couldn't do all the workshops they would have liked but we tried to spread it around by limiting each child to two per day. Even then the demand was a bit too great - another reason why we need a permanent Fairyland where we can put on many more events.
Thank you for your support if you came - see you another time if you couldn't make it.
PS thanks to the donkey who had to be moved from his field when the reserve car park overflowed on Sunday morning...
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| Cooking for Trolls |
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Dragon making |
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Dragon walking |
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| Fairy house construction |
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Fairy house
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Spectators at fairy float race |
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| Master chefs Lloyd Grosstroll and Gorgon Ramsay |
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Cordon Bleuch!
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Catering service available |
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| Fairy house |
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Fairy house
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Fairy house |
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| Float race safetyboat |
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Unsafetyboat
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..and they're off! |
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| Fairy queen in her tent |
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Flower fairy workshop
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Jewellery workshop |
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