VE Day at Red House

All over Britain people are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of the war against Hitlers Germany.
A local museum, The Red House, were holding a VE day special so that's where we headed off to. Red House, so called, because it's made out of red bricks, is on the list of our regular haunts because there is usually some event going off there. The volunteers and staff were dressed in wartime costume and had done the place out in bunting and Union Jacks, and were trying to convey a feeling of street party to the place.
There was singing around the piano. All the old singalong favourites like, "We'll meet again," and "The White cliffs of Dover." was being belted out in gusto, until the heavens opened up. The piano player never missed a note as he was wheeled indoors, whereupon the singing continued. There were kids activities in the "barn." They had to make paper bunting and Union Jack flags. Kept them quiet until the rain stopped.
When we got back outside, we found that the Vicar never got wet from the rain. He stayed in his wartime Ford Prefect. Inside Red House, which is dressed out as 19th century, they had put an exhibition entitled "War on the home front," in a couple of the rooms, including a mock-up of an Anderson shelter, with full sound effects of an air raid. The kids loved this.
In the town hall, adjoining Red House, they had laid on wartime food. Carrot and turnip cake, spam sandwiches and various dishes made from potatoes, washed down with weak tea.

We gave it a miss!