St Bride Virtual Wayzgoose - TODAY!

Last month, on 17th May it would have been the 6th annual St Bride Foundation WAYZGOOSE organised by Mick and Gill Clayton. For obvious reasons with the Covid lockdown, it was cancelled. A Wayzgoose is a term (unfamiliar to most people) that used to refer to an annual holiday in a print-works and was often an away-day to the coast or some other sort of day out, more often than not, paid for by the firm. In this instance the St Bride Wayzgoose is a kind of letterpress 'bring and buy' sale.

It was very sad that it was cancelled as every year, it is a chance for quite a large number of people to get together, as you can see from a picture below from a previous year...

Thanks to Becky Chilcott, a stalwart volunteer at St Brides, there is a 'virtual wayzgoose'  - TODAY.  It is made up of many people who would normally attend the Wayzgoose, who have all made 2 minute videos, including yours truly...

All videos will be available to watch on their Vimeo account from 8am today and will be sharing them throughout the day every half an hour on Twitter (with regular cake breaks!) until 8pm.
The video channel is: https://vimeo.com/stbridehttps://

...and the wayzgoose always requires Cake!

Every year I run the Fenner Paper stall, where we sell offcuts and leftovers with the money raised donated to the St Bride Foundation. Last year we raised a record breaking £357! For interest, this is the way my 'non-virtual' stall usually looks...

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https://vimeo.com/stbride/
https://www.sbf.org.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 06.06.2020