VE Day 75th Anniversary

We had been planning to attend a street party in the town, Paul had been helping a local eatery to plan it and apply for the road closures. But it wasn't to be and VE day looked like going past with out the celebrations that would have been, till I saw a post of facebook for a stay at home street party, social distancing of course! And it seems like lots of others dilecided it was a good opportunity to celebrate at home as well. I had seen the poster and thought I would print it out and see if others from my street would like to do it as well, however the morning after I printed the posters and invites...one came through my door from another neighbour 😃 it seems I was not the only one with that thought....then a what's app group was set up by a neighbour, who also had a sound system and another had done a quiz. Once I realised it wasn't just going to be us, we decided to really decorate the house, red, white and blue!

We had lots of bunting already and balloons,so I looked at Amazon to see what we could get delivered in time...not much really as everything was either sold out or would be delivered a week to late! But we ordered a plastic union jack table cloth and some banners, which when they came were very flimsy so we covered them with sticky back plastic,to tie to the railings on our front wall. 

So we improvised with things we had in the craft shed and made, crepe paper flower's, like I remember from when I was a kid and we used them to decorate the gala floats. We didn't  have enough to do exactly as I imagined but we again improvised and made a big VE 75 sign for the front of our house. 

I went a bit overboard on the outdoor picnic, which we had on the grass verge outside our house, same as the other neighbours did. I made pulled pork, cooked party sausages, sausage rolls, meats, cheeses, crisps, a traditional trifle, macaroons and buns which Molly decorated with icing flags and 75 logos, she really is a star as she worked so hard helping me and working with me the day before to get everything ready, she deserves so much credit❤ because the day before reminded me so much of Gala days, well they days before the gala,everything going on and all hands on deck to get everything ready..but we did it!

The day arrived... we put out our decorations, set up our picnic and spent a glorious sunny afternoon listening to 40's  music, having a quiz and waving at cars who helped us all as they went by! Every house on our block came out and it really was an amazing day. Much like a gala in reverse, instead of us on floats, we sat while cars when passed and beeped and we all waved.

It was such a fantastic day!