Fun at the festival
For the next few days, Vee and I are hosting a visit by a couple of her relatives from the Czech Republic (Vee is half Czech on her father’s side). The problem is that these relatives don’t speak any English and the little Czech we know we learned 20 years ago when the country was still Czechoslovakia and Communist.
So we needed some visual entertainment and we found it in buckets down at the Thames Festival. There was an incredible variety of ethnic food outlets, craft stalls and street entertainers. And, for once, the weather was fine.
We bought three lovely pieces of ceramics from a company called Pama Forza which is Palestinian-owned and based in Jerusalem.
Our son Richard and his wife Emily live close to London’s South Bank, so we though we’d call them on the mobile and see if they were around. We stopped to make the call, looked up, and there they were – how cool is that?