We're back down the van, messing about by the river…
Floral Flotilla
Labelled as part of the Chelsea Fringe, an alternative garden festival, held at the same time of the year as the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Henley's Floral Flotilla mustered at Mill Meadows on a lovely sunny Saturday morning in May.
Powered and un-powered craft of various sizes, dressed and decorated in horticultural harmony, filled with participants as colourful as their vessels, paraded up and down the Thames, waving and singing their merry way.
A catamaran with a circular table and chairs, all very civilised with glasses of Pimms and a mad-hatter. Boats with wicker arbours covered in lilac, lupins and dangling wisteria. Pink wigs - at least it looked like false hair? A home-made coracle that rather waddled along from side to side, moving slower than the ducks and a boat that was actually a car that was a boat. Not really James Bond 007, more Mr Toad & Wind in the Willows.
Brilliantly eccentric and loads of fun.
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| Pimms anyone ? |
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| Is it a boat ? Is it a car ? |
