Gainsboro Market

Market - flower stall where I found wreath

Every Tuesday the town of Gainsboro has a market. A bus stops at all the villages near Haxey using back roads and then heads to the market for three hours.  It’s the typical English double decker which is nice because it gives you a great view into all of the gardens as we pass.
 

Bus to Gainsboro

It’s amazing how sea sick you can feel on the top of the bus as it weaves down narrow bumpy roads.  I took the bus last Tuesday to shop at the market for a Christmas wreath.  The town and the big shopping area, , had all of their Christmas decorations up.  It was a nice trip and I joined several neighbors, who had also taken the bus, for lunch.

Christmas tree in Marshall's yard

Deer in Marshall's Yard shopping center.  It lights up at night.

 

Santa Arriving and Tree Lighting

Our village of Haxey doesn’t do any special ceremony at Christmas, but the neighboring village of Westwoodside, about ¼ of a mile away, does.  The village has a duck pond with a willow tree on an island. 

Local band on right, school choir on left in a portable stage that is an open semi-truck trailer.

 

The villagers gather to a band and grade school choir playing and singing carols, and tents selling minced pies, mulled wine, hot chocolate.

Santa arriving in his sleigh

Santa arrives, the tree is lighted, and Santa gives out chocolate lollies to the kids.