Linda behind the stall!

Dear Readers, I have popped home in the middle of the East Finchley Festival for a few hours to report back on how it’s all going. What a great event it is! There are lots of community groups, including our lovely colleagues at Friends of Cherry Tree Wood, Muswell Hill Sustainability Group, Finchley Foodbank and lots and lots of others, there’s music coming from one stage and children dancing on another stage, the smell of doughnuts and sausages in the air, and the sun is (mostly) shining.

We have information boards about Coldfall Wood and their history.

We have photographs of activities in the wood, and a board with the QR codes for our walks – one of them got messed up and so I had to run home and sort it out. We use Ticketsource for our events and it’s generally great, but if you alter one date you end up accidentally altering lots of others, so there’s the occasional glitch.

And then, of course, there are the window boxes…

Everybody who enters the raffle seems to want one, but there are only two. There are lots of books on offer as well though, so hopefully everyone will be happy. I am so impressed with how the windowbox meadows have gone that I think that I might knock up a few for myself.

And it was so lovely to meet people, including a few folk that I know from this blog (Hi Esther and Mary!) and folk from all around East Finchley. This really is a wonderful place to live, I’m so very lucky.

And now I’m off to get a bite to eat before heading back into the fray!