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Don't miss the canal festival!
Tiddenfoot Waterside Park plays host to Leighton-Linslade Town Council's annual canal festival this Saturday.
This free community event, which runs between 11am and 5pm, is in its eighth year and continues to offer oodles of entertainment and fun for visitors of all ages.
As well as conservation and heritage attractions, the festival promotes canal art and crafts and visitors can see for themselves first hand demonstrations of rural crafts such as bee skep making, besom broom making, basket weaving and new to this year's show – love spoon making.
More than 90 exhibitors will be selling a vast range of products from jewellery to hand painted canalware, plants to wooden gifts and handmade cards to teddy bears.
Children's entertainment will include Mr Topples' Punch and Judy Show, Roses Old Time Amusements and face painting. A programme of entertainment takes place in the main arena throughout the day and starts with songs by Andy Collier from his award-winning show 'Once the Cut'.
Cairo Cats will perform a belly dance and The Drum Circle will entertain and provide visitors the opportunity to learn to play a rhythm on a drum.
The festival welcomes local folk group 'Beats Working' who will perform the final spot of the programme with a lively mix of traditional and contemporary folk, roots and acoustic music.
Cyclists will be able to take part in activities organised by BuzzCycling and the Old FARTS (Friends and Relatives Tractor Society) will again provide a display of up to a dozen vintage tractors, all still working and attending the festival under their own steam.
The popular Birds of Bray, sponsored by Ark House Veterinary Surgery can be found in their usual shady spot down in the Poplars.
Pleasure boat trips along the canal run throughout the day and provide visitors the opportunity to enjoy the canal and its local environment.
The large number of working, pleasure and trade narrow boats that attend are always a colourful attraction and visitors can now access the towpath via the permanent footbridge which crosses the canal from the park.
Refreshments will be available all day.
Visitor car parking is available a short walk from the event site with a charge of 2 per car. Limited parking spaces for blue badge holders are available at the entrance to the park.
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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