What did the Victorians do for us?

Well there was bottle stalls, cakes and candies,bric a brac, bedding plants, jewellery, "hippy" shirts and breeks, teas, birds of prey, the obligatory pipers, minature traction engines, face painting, oh, and a coconut shy. That's what the Victorians did for us, if the Victorian day in Strath was anything to go by. Saturday was actually the climax of Victorian week, with all sorts of long skirted and tweedy breeched shenanigans going on. They take their Victoriana very seriously in the Strath!
The coconut shy was a particular favorite. Not a hint of a nailed down nut in sight. Coconuts that actually looked as if they may have been lying on a tropical beach not so long ago were tumbling fast.Those who had got their eye in at the shy could graduate to lobbing wet sponges at characters in the stocks. Curiously all the targets in said stocks were kids. Still this was about Victoriana wasn't it, there are probably still a couple of tykes stuck up chimneys around the village even now.
The spa waters were tasted.Sulphurous just isn't a nasty enough word to describe the assualt on the taste buds. An immediate rush to the Strath hotel bar was called for. Good marketing plan that. A few drinks in the sunshine, then retreat up the brae before the pipers start in earnest. Missed out on that other great Victorian invention, the kareoke in the bar. I'm sure I heard "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" being sung about closing time though.