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Sw rke Wide
High flying at Lydiard
Park: 10/11 May
Wednesday to Sunday and daily during
White Horse Kite Flyers will be
school holidays 10.30am - 5pm
putting up some amazing displays
* Meet and feed the animals during the Swindon Kite Festival at
* Tractor and trailer rides & electric tractors Lydiard Park on 10 and 11 May,
10am to 5pm.
* Animal racing at weekends
* Huge big bale straw stack & bouncy castle
* Adventure play area and giant sandpit
* Willow maze! * Crafty half hour
Sevenhampton
* Indoor heated toddlers soft play & sandpit
Nr Highworth, Swindon * Toddler story time during term time
Tel:01793 763939 * Granary tea rooms
Map: www.rovesfarm.co.uk Barn dances & wedding receptions Kites in all shapes and sizes will
be on display, kites big enough to lift
Signed off the A36I Swindon to Highworth Road Children's birthday parties a man, Indian fighting kites, sport
kites, traction kites and team flying
demonstrations. There will be achil-
dren's kite workshop and teddy bear
parachuting where children can
bring their teddies and have them
float to earth from a kite.
Entry is free.
High flying at Lydiard
Park: 24 - 26 May
Spectacular examples of hot air
balloons will bean show attheSwin-
don round of the UK Ballooning
Grand Prix.
World Champion balloonist David
Bare ford prepares to launch at
Lydiard on 16 April to promote the
event
Flying will take place in the early
morning and in the evening to select
a team to represent Great Britain in
the European and World Champi-
onships in Australia in 2004. During
the competition heats. balloonists
will be set a range of tasks, includ-
ing trying to fly to specific points to
drop off a marker before flying to a
second point.
During the day there will be a
large fun fair in the events field and
a fantastic selection of giant special
shaped balloons. On Sunday night
25 May. a balloon night glow to
music takes place.
Entry to the event supported by
The Link is free.
