Festival of Blessing

Our Festival of Blessing for the Summer Fete did not go without the odd hiccough. Although I'm pleased to say that the marquee didn't burn down - which is a first for this tea-light-addicted community.
No, instead we had Sam Hain's attempt to bless us all with the water of blessing from above. Full marks to Sam, the way she managed to fit a sprinkler system into the New Moot House, and equip it with a pump to supply it from the Husborne Well, was quite an achievement. And doing it all overnight, without any one else from the Community involved - a credit to her and her suppliers. Although I'm not so happy about the invoices I've received from City Plumbing and MK Piping today. Hnaef will be collecting more "voluntary" tithes tonight, let's put it that way.
But the real problem was when she switched it all on. Sam's idea was that we would be gently blessed by the water of the Holy Well as we cast our benisons on tomorrow's events. Shame about the miscalculation of power. First we were battered to the floor by the sheer force of water. Then as the watery contents of the Well were rapidly used up, the pump started forcing mud out through the sprinklers. Thankfully we were only covered by about 6 inches of silt by the time pump burnt out from the blockages.

Yet another Moot House is now, at least temporarily, unusable. That's one burnt down in the Night of a Thousand Tea Lights, one turned into a swimming pool after unusual amounts of rainfall,and one now filled with mud. At least with this one we may be able to clear it. Please can everyone turn up at 3pm for the clearance party. You will be divided into two groups - one digging the mud out of the Moot House floor, and the "wattle and daub" party to re-apply it to the walls. Meanwhile due to the sudden extraction of all that mud, the Husborne Well is henceforth renamed the Husborne Pond.