The day before today, one happy-go-lucky couple decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary by asking a funny priestess to perform a groovy hand-fasting ceremony.

Mucky Stuff

While most denizens turned out in their finest dressing-up clothes, Shan, the lady leading the proceedings, had smeared a lot of whirly designs all over herself and looked set to give someone a scary hug.

Going this way and that, and then running round in circles, the laughing congregation huffed and puffed around the grinning couple and their daughter, and didn't stop until they were good and ready.  Next, there was some quick sipping and munching, and Shan managed to get the pasty mess on everyone, who responded by loving it.

If a thought rushed in to suggest that the ceremony was over, though, it

then had to withdraw quietly, as there was still broom-jumping afoot.  As if involved in some crazy game of reverse-limbo, Shan gradually raised the broom and urged Bob and Jackie to run and jump, and run and jump again.  When all the running and jumping was done, all the jolly denizens cheered and many wandered off with the fruity wish to have a go too.

Strider Comes Out

Following on from yesterday's extravagant Harry Potter alert, citizens were again freaked out by fictional characters walking around Canehenge as bold as you please.

Striker, Frodo Baggins and a Fairy Queen were spotted hanging out in the Café, and several young folk busily prepared artists impressions of Gollum, who had yet to put in a precious appearance. 

More breezy denizens picked up some

 

maps and worked out where Frodo had come from.  The cheery folk could not make him go back to the Shire, though.

Strange But True?

Once again, the restless youth hid away to discuss the crazy possibility of horse-drawn carriages containing dolphins, kangaroos on rollerskates and skateboards, and inventing a time machine without needing to know how.

One source stated that it would be unlikely that these freaky ideas could be realised in this dimension, although we've heard that excuse before.

Immediately after the late meeting, chirruping children swarmed into the Café to demand their free cups of hot chocolate.  One energetic youngster commented, "I've eaten all the marshmallows off the top.  I need some more or it just won't be right."

Paramedics rushed to the scene with replacement confectionery.