Non Jubilee Bunting

It's Whipman Week starting this weekend in West Linton, so the village is decorated in Whipman bunting. I really should have taken this shot a few days ago when the background could have been bright blue.

Whipman is one of the older Border Festivals, having originated from the annual agricultural holiday and fayre in 1803, when "the men of Linton for the bettering of themselves and their children, formed a Benevolent Society, they being known as 'The Whipmen of Linton.' "

Commencing in the first week in June, it is today a nine day festival which begins by celebrating a local couple in the form of the Whipman (meaning carter) and his Lass.