This in 2 parts due to the character count... This is essentially not about Glastonbury. On Saturday we went to a locally advertised Beer Festival,. The ad stated that there would be beer, cider and wine, also kids things, pony rides face painting, circus Skills etc. Hurray, a pleasant way to spend some time as a family, we love community based stuff. Three quid each to get in and the Bounce (7 year old) got in free excellent. Once in , you are then asked if you would like to buy beer tokens, each token costing £1.25, and 2 tokens equalling a pint. We bought a few tokens to be going on with, and i asked the woman, if we didn’t use them all could we redeem the cash, she gave a somewhat emphatic no! Now me and Pixie, we are not lovers of real ale but we do like a Cider, but the only cider available on the day was Heck’s. I am aware that Heck’s produce cider of the highest multi award winning produce, but me, I am not keen. And they had run out of wine, so we were a little stumped. Nevertheless we reckoned that from the range of barrelled ales, with tantalising names, such as “badgers wink” and nuns gusset (I’m making these up) there must be something we would like, Sadly not, again I appreciate that there are huge numbers of people who enjoy this stuff, but I don’t get it, i cannot begin to describe what I taste, except it is incredibly dull. So, off to the children’s entertainment. Bad move, the promised pony rides, which a an excited seven year old was looking forward to, suddenly became a tearful tantrum, when she found out that one of the ponies was off sick and the other had been out in the morning and was simply to tired to attend. The bouncy castle had suddenly become a ground floor apartment due to the original bouncy castle letting the event down at the last moment. The one saving grace was the people doing the face painting they were marvellous with the kids and did an excellent job.