Odds and Ends

During the week there are sports and discos for the kids, a concert, and sports for the adults, so the saying from the old Beltane Festival song is right to say "Peebles to the play" There is a lot of playing goes on during Beltane week, not all of it organised but a good deal of it taking place in the pubs around the town. I am sure there are more than a few sore heads on Thursday morning.
Here are just a few pictures from the Beltane so far!




Shops decorate their windows in red and white items from their stock - this shop is particularly clever with its window displays at the best of times, so this paper outfit is typical of the work the owners put in - and though I haven't any pictures of them many Peebleans also decorate their houses with bunting - especially if the Beltane Queen or the Cornet live along their street. If you are a main participant in the week's proceedings you may also have crepe paper flowers, and ribbons and anything else the imagination can come up with, and believe me there are some amazing displays. To add to the incentive to decorate your shop or house, competitions are held - the best dressed shop window and the best decorated house. Considering it is only a participant of the festival who goes the whole hog on their house, it is therefore one of them who wins!