Thriplow Daffodil Weekend expects 12,000 visitors to see flowers
Volunteers are preparing to welcome more than 12,000 visitors to a small village where half-a-million flowers will be in bloom.Thriplow Daffodil Weekend in Cambridgeshire, which started as a way of raising money for a church roof in 1966, is everything you would expect from "Britain at its best," said one organiser.Tom Harvey, better known in the village as "daffodil Tom", planted more than 41,000 bulbs around the village last autumn with the help of his wife and children.He turned his back on city life to move to the area about three years ago and said the charity work, events and community of Thriplow gave him a "boost".
The two-day event "is everything you would expect from a village fête, but supersized", said event committee chairman Paul Earnshaw.There will be children's events, farm animals, dray and tractor rides, Morris dancing, blacksmiths at work, classic cars, engines and tractors as well as the flower festival, bell ringing and history talks.Mr Earnshaw recently completed a 1,300-mile (2,092km) trip to deliver aid to Ukraine in a truck donated by the daffodil weekend committee. Some planning for this year's event even had to take place during that four-day journey across Europe. "It's a huge amount of work. Daffodils grow very well round here...so we just have more daffodils than we know what to do with," he added. "There's half a million daffodil in flower at the moment and over 150 types including the Thriplow gold which you can only see in this village."
Villager Kerstin Rivett said the event brought the whole community together to raise money for charity. She admitted that when she lived in London, she never particularly liked daffodils but said the impact of seeing so many in Thriplow was "just glorious".
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