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Category Archives: scythe festivals & events
Northern Open Scythe Competition
Nevermind the Olympics, the results you’ve all been waiting for are the winners of the 1st Northern Open Scythe Competition held as part of the Hay Time Scythe Event this week. Christiane and I went over to the North Pennines … Continue reading
Posted in scythe courses, scythe festivals & events, Scytherspace
Tagged competition, hay time, learn scything, learn to mow, learn to scythe, nw, scythe, UK
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Somerset Scythe Festival 2012 video
Many thanks to Richard Brown of Emorsgate Seeds and SABI chairman for this wonderful video from the Green Scythe Fair in Somerset. We’ve been looking without success for a traditional scythe song that we can sing while mowing in a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, scythe festival, somerset, song
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Somerset Scythe Festival 2012
It’s over a week ago now since the Somerset Green Scythe Fair but I’ve only just got chance to sit down and go through all my photos having spent most of last week in Edinburgh for the Royal Highland Show. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, competition, festival, scythe, somerset
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Hay Time Scything Event in the North Pennines 2012
I have been invited by the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Beauty (or ‘AONB’) Partnership to run a two day Learn to Mow course as part of a Hay Time Scything Event on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th July taking … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, competition, course, festival, hay time, learn to mow, learn to scythe, Pennines, scythe, UK
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Somerset Scythe Festival 2012 programme
Whatever the weather outside your window, summer is officially here as Simon Fairlie has just sent me the programme for this year’s Somerset Green Scythe Fair. This is the UK gathering for mowers and scythe enthusiasts. Nowhere else will hear the … Continue reading
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Tagged competition, festival, green scythe fair, scythe, scythe association, sharpometer, somerset, UK
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Transylvanian Haymaking on tv
I just found this tv programme from last year’s Haymaking Festival in Transylvania. This year’s event is on 19-26 August 2012 in Gyimes, Transylvania. Follow the link to read about last year’s festival. To book a place, contact Barbara Knowles a british biologist and science … Continue reading
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Tagged festival, hay, haymaking, mowing, prince charles, romania, scythe, transylvania
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International Peening Day 2012
It’s not a joke; this year I am planning International Peening Day to take place on Sunday 1st April – clear your diary. After 6 months languishing forgotten and unloved in the shed does your scythe need some loving care … Continue reading
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Tagged anvil, jig, peen, peening, scythe
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Transylvania Haymaking Festival dates & Scythe royalty
I’ve just been sent the dates for this year’s International Haymaking Festival in Transylvania. The fourth festival will take place on 19-26 August 2012 in Gyimes, Transylvania. Last year’s festival was a wonderful week and the event grows and improves year. … Continue reading
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Tagged festival, hay, haymaking, mowing, prince charles, romania, scythe, transylvania
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Koseni 2011 Czech Republic – pictures
The pictures from this years mowing fortnight in the Czech Republic are now online here. Great memories for me of the week that Christiane and I spent there, mowing and making hay with the other volunteers in a special conservation … Continue reading
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Tagged Christiane Lechner, czech republic, hay making, koseni, kosenka, mowing
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Transylvania Mowing Competition 2011
While the rest of the sports media was focussed on the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea I was making my own debut representing my country on the international sports stage. This was the first Scythe Mowing Competition in … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, Christiane Lechner, competition, festival, haymaking, romania, scythe, transylvania
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