Griffin Association in Blackburn Lancashire along with Griffin youth club have received funding to deliver a music event in the local park,the aim of the event is to bring live music to the community and to promote bands, instruments to all.

You have met some of us before at an event in Blackburn on a car park with young people DJIN

It's a bit late in the year for it, but have you taken in a rock festival? Rather than the big corporate events, lots of towns and villages hold smaller scale festivals, featuring local bands and centering on pubs and parks etc. The rituals and characters you find at these places can be fascinating; local old missed-the-boat musos, local radio DJs, the almost famous, appreciative crowds of family members....
Alternatively, "battle of the bands" talent spotting events are a very similar institution and are probably most popular around autumn time...

The National Forest Wood Fair is held on August Bank Holiday Monday. In a magnificent setting below the craggy summit of Beacon Hill Country Park in Leicestershire, see quintesential English crafts such as willow weaving, pole lathe turning, coracle making or ancient dug out boats, watch a wheelwright at work and tradtional horse logging.

Thousands of people flock to this annual event and enjoy having a go at many of the activities, and sampling the tempting choice of locally-sorced food and drink. New this year is the grand auction at the end of the day. The gavel will come down on a handmade coracle, the chain saw sculpture made during the day, and a Gordon Monk child's chair, plus a selection of other top quality items.

The Wild Man of the Woods sings his songs and spins his yarns throughout the day, you can learn survival skills and all about country potions.

The photogrpahic possibilities are endless and it would be great to include this in the We English project. What could be more English than an oak tree?

National Forest Wood Fair Monday 25 August, 10 am -5 pm see www.nationalforest.org

On 11-13 September, the Temple is hosting an RHS flower show within its huge garden. It’s a little known fact that the Temple is actually the original home of the Chelsea Flower Show, and hosted the RHS’s annual spring show there from 1888 to 1911, before this got transferred to its current Chelsea location. This year will be the first time in nearly a century that the show will return to its original home and many of the exhibits are marking the occasion with ornate historical displays.

Just for info, the Temple is a 20-acre piece of land that lies between the Embankment and the Strand, and is home to two medieval Inns of Court, an 800-year old round church (made famous in the Da Vinci Code), the Elizabethan Middle Temple Hall and the enormous Inner Temple garden (3 acres!). Any chance the floral show, garden or round church might make a good photostory?