Barleycorn

The current state of this place. I made the effort to stroll down and have a look and it would appear that I caught it just before it’s totally gone.  This evening we went to see Billy Bragg headlining the opening night of this year’s Southwell Folk Festival and he even treated us to a verse of ‘John Barleycorn’ in honour of the surroundings. Things were just kicking off really but we did our best to get in the festival spirit by buying a gourmet pie from a tin caravan and copious amounts of sweet, spiced chai from a well-pierced gentleman in a multi-coloured joust-tent…