We spent several happy hours this weekend in Chelmsford High Street, and nearby parks for the annual streetdiversions festival. It’s interactive street theatre, and the humour connects with adults and children. I’ve just uploaded fifty of my photos to Flickr. The shots should also appear automatically in the slide show in the blog side bar, but you’ll see them better on Flickr.
We couldn’t see every act, but you can see shots of the famous coneheads, the ‘Military Intelligence’ band on stilts by Poles Apart (they played the Jacksons’ ‘Blame it on the boogie’), the Bedlam Oz Familie, the ‘ristocrats’ of Utopium Theatre’s ‘Haute Pointure’, Mister Culbuto (man as weeble), Les Cupidons and Les Horsemen by Les Goulus, and the Drumming Ants of Neighbourhood Watch Stilts International. Fuller information on the acts is here.
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Big Circumstance 
Hi Dave,
Sounds like a great day. I spent a year living in Essex (Saffron Walden) back in 1977. What a beautiful place to live. We visited Chelmsford a couple of times while we were there. I remember it being equally as charming.
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