I [...] bet that other village fete had a bouncy c.
Spot on.
It lacked a copper-roofed cruciform church, a school, and a clergyman standing on a eurobin or something, waving his hat in a large arc; and it was on a large irregular park, instead of on a small rectangular playing field. But it did have a bouncy castle.
I like Wensleydale's explanation.
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