title	The GSB at a Twinning Anniversary, Hartismere, Eye, Suffolk - 24th October 2019
intro	It's the thirtieth anniversary of the town-twinning between Pouzauges, in the Vendée department of Pays de la Loire in France, and Eye, the Suffolk market town. The Gislingham Silver Band is playing, so Nosher and Fred pitch up to help out on cornet and flute duties, respectively. The band doesn't actually get to play that much, as there's a lot of speechifying going on - more so as everything has to be done in both English and French - but there are a few nice canapés floating around afterwards to make up for it. The signing continues the twinning partnership for another year, whilst this time there are also additional guests from the German town of Meitingen. The highlight was probably when all the French half of the audience stood up as we started playing a tune called Bouquet de Paris - its opening refrain is loosely based on the French national anthem, the Marseillaise.
imgp6929	A stack of pointless bike reservation tickets
imgp6947	Adrian is installed in his new-ish stool
imgp6950	It's a small turnout as it's a working-day gig
imgp6951	Gov's dad and Merlin discuss the running order
imgp6955	The signing table
imgp6956	Merlin checks more paperwork
imgp6957	Merlin - a former mayor of Eye - does a speech
imgp6959	The Mayor of Eye gets her speech translated
imgp6962	Fred in the Hartismere car park
imgp6965	The Hart of Hartismere outside the school
imgp6966	The band descends on the few remaining canapés
imgp6967	There's a post-signing schmooze in the library
imgp6968	The canapes have all been scoffed
imgp6969	Mingling guests with some sort of fizz-in-a-glass
imgp6971	A bottle is waved around
imgp6974	The library is fairly full
imgp6976	Meanwhile, Fred roams around
imgp6977	We head off looking for the bogs
imgp6978	Fred points at a bunch of lockers
imgp6979	Autumn leaves outside the Lines Hall at Hartismere