Sue's Blog - Some assembly required.

Church Festivals....Milwaukee style.

Last weekend was our local church festival.
St. Gregory The Great.
Not your typical church fete (Midsommer Murders type).   Nope.  No ' guess the weight of the cake' or 'bring and buy' or Morris Dancers and not a coconut shy in sight.
I actually miss that sort of stuff.
St. Greg's fest is on for 4 days.  Thursday till Sunday.
There are 3 stages for bands of various types from rock to doo wop.
There are 3 or 4 bars selling beer, wine & spirits and tons of food.  Not my sort of grub, but typical fairground stuff....hotdogs, burgers etc.
It is a short walk from us so I dragged my other half over there Saturday night.
Of course, we haven't had any rain for weeks but as soon as we walked outside the heavens opened.
Not to be deterred, we still went but it was pretty miserable walking about in the rain and all the tents were heaving with people trying to get out of it.
So, we went home and decided to return on Sunday.


 Which we did.
The Doo Wop Daddies were on one of the stages.   They may be old but they are a lot of fun.
There was a rock band we really like on one of the other stages so we made our way there.
Only they weren't.  What was there was a band of the same name but with maybe one of two of the original members left in it.  The lead singer was gone, which was a shame as he was a real showman.  The singer they have now .........was ok.   On to the third stage, where there was a band playing who's blurb announced that they 'played in Las Vegas'.
After listening to them for a bit I decided they probably didn't play for long in Las Vegas.
Disappointed we made our way back to the Doo Wop Daddies and Philip had a couple of beers.

During their break I noticed one of the Doo Wop Daddies at the bar.  His trousers were shorts!!!
Wasn't he bold !


St. Greg's fest is huge.  There is a fairground and lots of places to gamble.   Look, sitting at the table on the left is Father Christmas. He likes a beer.
I expect this is his last chance of relaxation before he has to get those elves motivated for his busy season.

I wonder if he approves of 'this sort of thing'.
When I saw this I really thought that Father Ted and Father Dougal should be there with their signs saying ;
"Down With This Sort of Thing".
St. Greg's is a catholic church, but there's all sorts of gambling going on in the festival.
Not just for cake either.....money changes hands as well as liquor.
How does that work then?

posted by Sue Banks @ 3:45 PM