Out and About: Fun and Fresh Air is What We Need This Springtime
After the last few years, it seems everyone is craving a bit of fun, and what better way to celebrate the start of Spring than with Thriplow’s Daffodil Weekend & Country Fair, 19th & 20th March. 
In 2020, after six months of planning, the volunteer committee had to make the disappointing decision to cancel just three weeks before the event. Whilst it did prove to be the right decision (lockdown was brought in shortly after), the event has been greatly missed. There’s nothing quite like a group of 350 kind-hearted unpaid volunteers coming together to raise funds for local charities. Their good humour is infectious, even when the ‘Beast from the East’ brought sub-zero temperatures on Daffodil Weekend’s 50th year the teams managed to keep the event going for the intrepid visitors who braved all sorts to come. Only covid and foot and mouth have managed to prevent the weekend from taking place since it started in 1969.
In September last year, the committee were determined that 2022 was going to be the year to put the Daffodil Weekend back in the calendar with a few adjustments to allow for ‘the new normal’.
And there’s so much to look forward to at this outdoor event: the daffodils will be in full glory and with over 500,000 bulbs planted around the village, there’s always a breathtaking show; the ever-popular dray rides will be back, as will the flamboyant Devils Dyke Morris dancers; we’ll have a selection of vintage cars, tractors and mini steam engines on display; the Thriplow Society have invited the blacksmiths to work up a sweat in The Smithy; plus there’s a great lineup of live music and entertainment. There’s plenty to see and do on your day out.
Fun for all ages
Family Thriplow, now positioned in the school field, will include traditional games, entertainers and a bouncy castle. It’s a great way to get the kids off their tech and into the outdoors.
There will be over 100 stalls selling tempting garden, craft, gift, and artisan items from small independent businesses, so bring your wallet and a shopping basket.
If you get hungry and thirsty, all kinds of refreshments will be on offer from homemade cakes in the tearooms to street food in the Taste of Thriplow, and while you’re there, don’t forget to grab a pint in ‘The Mean Gran’ beer tent. 
We’re a dog-friendly event (well-behaved and on leads please) and we’ll be welcoming your pooches at the Fun Dog Show and on the Dog Agility course in Country Thriplow – you might just win that rosette this year…
The Anglia Militia, a living history group, will be camped out in the heart of the village showcasing their ancient instruments of restraint and generally keeping all the visitors in order!
All profits to local charities.
Daffodil Weekend, which is run entirely by volunteers from Thriplow and the surrounding villages, has raised more than £500,000 for local charities. As the last DW of 2020 was cancelled due to Covid three weeks before the event, we will be picking up where we left off with our very worthwhile nominated charities of 2020: Royal Papworth Charity and East Anglian Air Ambulance.
To find out more please visit: www.thriplowdaffodils.org.uk
Thriplow Daffodil Weekend, 19th & 20th March
