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Thank you,DG. I am really very grateful to you for putting yourself through all this unremitting seasonal jollity. Now I can decline the offer of a visit to one of these- "no thanks,I have done the virtual tour" 😅 Now to return to making some 'alternative' decorations. Bah humbug!
Jo W | 03.12.17 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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Does the Yorkshire Pudding wrap consist of things inside a Yorkshire Pudding, or a Yorkshire Pudding inside a wrap?
martin | 03.12.17 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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It's all a bit generic - how long before we get an Easterville?, perhaps you can be tied to a cross and have creme eggs thrown at you.
Still Anon | 03.12.17 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Sausages are usually €3 in Germany (and they probably taste better too, even if the stallholders just buy them from Lidl) so that tells me everything I need to know about the London offerings. I wonder if they're cheaper in the Manchester or Birmingham ones.
John | 03.12.17 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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But you didn't specify whether and at what cost humbugs could be acquired...after all, this is the season for them.
b | 03.12.17 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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£7.50 for a sausage in a roll???
Bernie | 03.12.17 - 10:02 a.m. | #
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Thank you for your bravery. It is very much beyond the call of duty. I am proud to live in a country where there are people like you: Willing to endure such hardship so that others may not suffer.
Jon Jones | 03.12.17 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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Looks like John gives DG a post for later this month, trips to Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester etc. to compare other city fairs. Perhaps crowdfunding for trips to the continent.
Roger Stocker | 03.12.17 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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Fools and their money are easily parted.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 03.12.17 - 10:37 a.m. | #
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You realise you’re going to have to do Crystal Palace Winterfest next weekend in the interests of completeness:
https://crystalpalacewinterfest.co.uk/
Rupert | 03.12.17 - 12:18 p.m. | #
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IMHO sausages are unacceptably expensive for HKD7.50, not to mention €3 and even £7.50. Good thing thst they don't force others to buy!
Patrickov | 03.12.17 - 12:54 p.m. | #
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Winterville is an ok title, for it is certainly nothing to do with Christmas, or even Advent which starts today. Christmas does not start for another 3 weeks, and then lasts for 12 days. It's not about German markets but the birth of Christ which does not seem to feature in any of these wooden shed villages you have visited.
I think I shall stay away.
Geoff Lumley | 03.12.17 - 1:25 p.m. | #
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@Geoff Lumley
Christ hasn’t been part of Christmas for a long time...
Jon Jones | 03.12.17 - 3:02 p.m. | #
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I commend you visiting these places in temperatures just above freezing, thanks it saves me going.
It used to be roasted chestnuts that were sold on the streets of London at this time of year, seems that tradition has gone.
John | 03.12.17 - 3:04 p.m. | #
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It is a traditional part of Christmas for some people to say that such and such is not what Christmas should be about.
Although I too have no wish to take part myself in any shed village, I also have no wish to prevent other people enjoying themselves and enjoying the festival in any (reasonably harmless) way which suits them.
Malcolm | 03.12.17 - 3:05 p.m. | #
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it was only on for one day, but forty five minutes out of Kings Cross would have got you to the Mill Road winter fair in Cambridge where mulled wine and mulled cider was £3-£3.50 a go.
Al__S | 03.12.17 - 3:26 p.m. | #
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There's some sort of market at Greenwich too, it costs £15 to get in though.
@John: yes, where have all the roasted chestnuts gone?!
RH | 03.12.17 - 4:42 p.m. | #
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Where's this year's rip-off Winter Wonderland in a muddy wood charging 50 quid for a family ticket to see a couple of goats wearing antlers, a long queue for someone who even the most trusting of 4-year-olds doesn't believe is Father Christmas and some bored elves skulking out the back of Santa's grotto for a fag, until it goes bust after sobbing children are featured in the Sun and the operator says he was let down by his suppliers? It's become a tradition, surely?
Andrew S | 03.12.17 - 7:34 p.m. | #
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Winchester market is not only free but also sells roasted chestnuts (& caramel nuts) but also only charges £4 for mulled wine (£7 if you want a shot with it) & a fiver for a Brautwerst. Well worth visiting - even had free park & ride yesterday
Paul | 04.12.17 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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Went to Christmas by the River just after 8 the other night and it was all closed up for the night
Nick | 08.12.17 - 10:00 p.m. | #
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Not sure if it has all the necessary factors, but the Crystal Palace Winterfest is now closed after less than a week.
Andrew | 13.12.17 - 11:06 p.m. | #
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