It’s great to be back! There are few events to come out and shout about in January and February (and to be honest off season break is welcome, but on a sunny spring morning like yesterday’s it was great to be one more in my livery, crying in the streets to raise awareness of the…
This years Reindeer Parade in Windsor seemed bigger than ever.
I was honoured to be asked to start the Santa Dash in Windsor today. A crowd of a couple of hundred wonderful people gave up their Sunday to run 5km in aid of the Alexander Devine Childrens Hospice Appeal. Not only that, they did it dressed as Santa Claus! It was a fantastic site from…
I was asked by Cllr Kellaway the Mayor to help out with a visit by a cub pack to the Town Hall in Maidenhead. When I arrived this evening it turned out it was the same cub pack from Windsor I had visited a few weeks ago. As i walked into the Town Hall I…
Being town crier means being open to new ideas and joining in for the benefit of the community. Sometimes this leads me in strange new directions. None more so than last weekend when I was asked to deliver a proclamation for the start of the Maidenhead Zombie Walk. This is the second year of the…
I was asked to visit the 6th Windsor cub pack this week and received a very warm and very loud welcome. The boys and girls listened attentively to my potted history of town crying and then joined in enthusiastically as we ran a competition to see if any of them would make a good town…
At Hastings National Town Crier Championships there are two trophies presented each year. Twelve months ago I was thrilled to win the Champion trophy, and this year I returned it, only to win the other one. On 18th October I was delighted to win the silver bowl for being the ‘best dressed’ crier. Of course…
We are heading toward a big anniversary next year. it will be 800 years since King John was forced to put his seal on Magna Carta at Runnymede. As part of the build up I was asked to help at Windsor’s Guildhall on Saturday, telling people about the history of the document and its continuing…
I usually shout at earache inducing volumes but that wouldn’t have been appropriate at the weekend when I visited the residents of a care home near Marlow. I had been asked to come and give a talk on being the town crier and was slightly apprehensive because this would be my first time delivering a…
This morning I spent a couple of hours in the town centre with the large crowds of visitors. The queue for the castle was as long as ever so I gave an impromptu history talk to the back of the queue to take their minds off the wait. Then we let some kids ring the…