We have already begun to make plans for next May as we hope this will be the biggest and best in living memory If we are to make a success of the celebrations we will need even more help than usual for the day. Our provisional plans for the Fair include events representing Fairs of different ages throughout the village during the week-end and extending the festivities into the evening of Fair Day itself.

Those of us who normally organise the Fair are asking everyone in the village for your ideas for events and attractions for the next Fair and for your help with this special Fair. Our next meeting (assuming you have missed the AGM on 21^st July) will be on Wednesday 15^th September at 8pm in the Village Hall and everyone is welcome to come along and join our discussions.

If you want to be part of a major historical event (and have some fun into the bargain) then help us to make next year’s Reach Fair the best in it’s 800 year history. We have a great deal to live up to and the eyes of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia and possibly even the whole country will be watching. If Ian includes this on the Reach Web site ( www.reach.drakken.com ) then this could be a global event and YOU could be part of it.

To paraphrase two well known world leaders :

Your village needs YOU.

Ask not what Reach can do for you, but what you can do for REACH.

The hypnotist Romark announced in 1977 that he was going to give a public display of his psychic powers “I am going to drive a car, blindfold, through Ilford” he said.

On 12th October he duly placed two coins, a slice of dough and a thick band across his eyes. Shortly afterwards he climbed into a yellow Renault and set off down Cranbrook Road.