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International Peening Day 2024
Sun 7 April 2024 (First Sunday in April)
International Peening Day is an ‘everywhere-event’ – it’s aims are to remind people to prepare their scythes in advance of the mowing season and provide support by encouraging them to get together to peen together. You can share experiences online via the SABI Facebook or email groups.
International Peening Day on the Plock (Kyle of Lochalsh)
Sun 7 April 2024 11.00 am -1.00 pm
Scythe blade feeling rusty? Not sure your peening skills make the cut? Need to whet your scything appetite? Join us for a Team Peen on the Plock.
If it’s your skills that are feeling a bit dulled, don’t worry – help is on hand to get your skills and blade up to scratch ready for the season to come.
All free, teaching sessions have a small price. Peening benches and equipment for sale. For more information go to http://www.lochalsh.uk/news/scything-training/
Green Scythe Fair ‘GSF24’
Sun 9 June 2024 (Second Sunday in June) 11.00 am – 11.00 pm
Incorporating the 18th West Country Scythe Festival
Thorney Lakes, Somerset TA10 0DW
The premier scything event in the UK. Scythe championship, scythe and haymaking events, crafts, stalls, music, speakers, kids area, local food and drink.
For more information go to http://www.greenfair.org.uk
The ‘Real’ Hay Festival
Sat 22 June 2024 2:00 pm – 9:00pm
Newchapel, Llanidloes
Celebrate the Summer Solstice with a range of outdoor activities: scything, working horse demos, crafts, bar and food. This is a free event. Location is What3words: escalates.roofs.grass
For more information contact: hand.powered@yahoo.com
Cambridge Scythe Festival
Sun 21 July 2024
Incorporating the East of England Scything Competition
Wandlebury Country Park
Wandlebury Country Park is on the Gog Magog Hills, just south of Cambridge. The East of England Scything Competition is back after a few years absence.
By kind permission of Cambridge Past Present and Future.
For more information contact Jim McVittie (jim@mcvittie.me.uk)