15/07/2026
We tried something new this year, and though we say it ourselves, we think it went Priddy Well….
Working with Giant finders extraordinary, Ruth and Amy, and joining forces with the children of Priddy School, we managed to get the guardian of the Fair Lady Well, the Faere Ladye herself to become manifest in the form of a ragged but multicoloured and flower bedecked GIANT!
Coaxing her from her hiding place with bells, whistles, violins and the occasional megaphone she deigned to visit our Festival and walk again around the Village Green to which she had brought pure water many, many years ago… So loud was the noise that the Mother Earth giant of Street, Gaia, popped up too!
To be joined by the people of Priddy and Festival visitors, waving flags and talismans made by local children, to the beat of sticks and sound of violins and jangle of bells and swish of hankies from drawn in musicians and Morris Sides. All to circumnavigate the Green in a watery swirl - despite the beating sun - and to sing together the Faere Ladye song that tells her history and points to a brighter future….
And hopefully good fun was had by all!
There are so many people to thank for making this magic happen, from the School of Saint Laurence at Priddy and Weston, to the Lost Giants themselves, the Gardening Club of Priddy to the musicians of Pill, the Champion Town crier of Chard to the story teller of Glastonbury, not to mention the Kittiwake and Pigsty Morris sides hailing from Bristol and the bearer of the Gert Wurm of Somerset having a break from all that dancing with Beltane!
The Faere Ladye has been taken away now, to a dark and distant cave (courtesy of a Pick Up truck) but who knows, if we all wish hard enough, she may appear again next year on a day that should forever be called Fair Lady day!
The Lost Giants
Stuart Cu***ng
Kittiwake Border Morris
Sarah Mooney
