Dancing nuns and lost children

It’s the Coldharbour village fete tomorrow. I was appointed fete chairman many years ago (basically because I didn’t attend the fete planning meeting).
The stars at “my fete” were a troupe of dancing nuns. They brought their own music - and a tape-recorder with flat batteries. The batteries slowly gave up the ghost and the nuns danced slower and slower. Eventually the nuns gave up too. They bowed out gracefully and left centre stage to tumultuous applause. The previous year I took my son and daughter to the Coldharbour fete and they had a great afternoon. The PA system featured in my life that day as well. “Would the parents of Matthew and Harriet please…”.
Statistically, 90% of parents have had a similar experience. It was a very familiar experience to me; it was the third week in a row that I had heard this message (Dorking fete, Abinger fete, Coldharbour fete). I will never forget the look on the face of the chap running the PA system at Coldharbour. Running the PA at fetes must have been his hobby; I had met him twice before! Don’t bother reporting me to social services - as I suspect he wanted to! Matt (now 23) survived his gap year working in New Zealand and Harriet (now 21) came back from South East Asia in one piece. Of course, I worried about them when they were both so far away – but I would have worried about them far more if I had wrapped them in cotton wool from “birth to A levels”.
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