True, there is only a tenuous link to writing here- but it'll be cute. Anyone who's ever seen the Cow Parade in London or other places will be entranced.

'The Sussex Downland villages of Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common are holding their first ever arts festival starting on Friday September 16th and running until October 2nd. Highlights include Three Sopranos - a performance by Deborah Roberts, Janet Coxwell and Victoria Bawtry, a country house recital by the Cirrus Ensemble, poetry, film and drama and the first ever rural Cowparade - with a trail around the village and local countryside of painted life-size cows.'

For more details check: http://www.hurstfestival.org/