Scarecrows take over Shropshire village as beloved festival returns

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00:00It's a goal! Well, nearly. Who have we got? Hello madam, what's your name?

00:05Hi, I'm Tina Williams. Tina, we're here at Lillashaw, Scarecrow Fest. It's ace, it's great!

00:11It's amazing! Yeah, and so I mean the weather's not putting a, you know, dampening the spirits,

00:16everyone's still out enjoying it. They are, they're out there, we've done lots of advertising,

00:20and as you say, it's our 50th year this year. Yeah. I've been managing, well I've been managing

00:25for five years, but I've been working in London Pre-School for over 30. Yeah.

00:29But yeah, it's amazing, people have come along from all round local areas, and we've had so many

00:36health pop sponsorship this year, it's been a big year, and raffle prizes, absolutely amazing.

00:41And you've got quite a bit going on at the school here, haven't you? You've got stalls,

00:45bounty castle, a bit of music. We've got bounty castle, we've got some for the children,

00:48gluing, sands, and we've got face painting, biscuits, decorate biscuits. And how many

00:55scarecrows roughly do you think there are in the village? Actually, it's our best year yet,

00:59and we've got over 73. Over 73? Wow. Whether there's any more's gone out this morning,

01:04we don't know, but our last count yesterday was 73 scarecrows. Yeah, that's good going, isn't it?

01:08Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Any particular favourites yourself? Well, obviously my own.

01:12Which one is yours then? Well, I live in Lillashaw, and our postman is Darren,

01:16and he's such a jolly postman, and our house is quite very postman. So we've done Darren's postman.

01:21You've done Darren? Has Darren seen it? Darren's seen it, and he says it looks a bit like him

01:25when he's had a food drink. He's got googly eyes. What a compliment that is to have a

01:28scarecrow made of you. Yeah. Well, please consider making a little chubby, slightly bald in Shropshire

01:34staff photographer scarecrow man next year. Right, thank you. Thanks for all the hard work for

01:40everyone behind the scenes. I say, it's just for the children. All the money raised goes back to the children.

01:45Well done. It's a goal! I'll try again.

01:50Well, so we're here with Mr and Mrs Scarecrow. Yeah!

01:53How are you doing guys? What's your names? Paulette.

01:56Carl. Cool. So, Lillashaw Preschool, 50th anniversary of the Scarecrow Fest.

02:01It is. It is. Cool. And we've brought the sunshine. Well, no, no, I don't know about the sunshine.

02:06We did this morning. Yeah, yeah. But this will go.

02:09But there's still plenty. Everyone's still out. The community's out. People are loving it still, aren't they?

02:13The atmosphere, to be fair, today is amazing. Brilliant. It's absolutely fantastic. It's nice to bring all the

02:16village together and people that don't even live in the village are coming to see us. Coming to see us.

02:19Yeah. So that's what it's all about. And they won't be disappointed. There's some great

02:22scarecrows in the village, isn't there? Amazing. Absolutely fantastic. Cool. So, I mean, you look,

02:27let's just have a look at this frock. Woop woop. That's great.

02:31Where'd you get, where'd you get a scarecrow woman's... I just made it.

02:35She made it. Yeah, did she make it? Yeah, she made it. Oh, even better. Well,

02:39well done, guys. You look fantastic. We'll let you go and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you.

02:42Thank you. Lovely.

02:44Ho, ho, ho.