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A goodly crowd of Majestic die hards turned up under the efficient stewardship of Sue Jones, who had put in countless hours of effort (as she always does) to help make our part in Barnaby Parade, a success.

There was a mixture of costumes pilfered from wardrobe under the watchful eye of Mina, who was, of course, a saintly Fairy Godmother. There were Mermaids (Nessie and Lisa), Widow Twankey (complete with half grown beard) to add to the gender confusion of my goodself. We went into the Crompton Road Chippy afterwards, and the men seemed more interested in the dress and wig than the ladies. I didn't know which toilets to use.

There was a sprinkling of fairies, Copacabana dancers (Pam Clarke and Lynsey Hogan), Grand Vizier (Harry Newton), colourful Ladies with boas, Oklahoma characters - Sheila Gaskell - we all can't wait to see you as Aunt Eller, and Matthew Hulme.

Sue had worked her magic on the poster, as you can see from the pictures - for a slide show click here. Sadly the organisers would not let us hand out our flyers as we marched, which was a disappointment. Still we went round at the fete afterwards, and handed them out then.

Ian & Kath were our very obliging Marshalls in their luminous jackets. We were so well behaved they didn't have a lot to do.

I also took a video, which you can see on our Facebook page.

The parade took us out of Christ Church, around Macclesfield, and back. There was a murmur of some songs as we went along, mind you some singing would have warmed us up a bit, particularly those that weren't wearing very much!

So was it worth it? I would say so. Would we do it again? Definitely. This time some tunes, I think to sing as we went along.

Peter Garsden (the bearded woman with confusion)