merry xmas 2012

 

 Sorry I have been tardy in the update for November/December but Gail and I have been going through a re-balance of where we are, how we got here and what are we going to do next.  So the last two months have been a bit fraught with possible plans, worrysome work changes and many things more important than writing up blog pages.  But we did go out to some pub lunches.  This was a nice one where there was a piano player, sorry, forget where it was but not far from home.

I also had a rather busy time with the Wetherby Lions , these photos are of the Ladies night.  I chair the committee and we hosted a posh frock night so the Lion wives and partners get a bit of thanks from the guys for supporting us through the year.  Held in the Wetherby Golf Club banquet room it was a Great night, good drinks and food, fantastic music from Mark and Natalie of Rhythm Division and Gail and i had a little dance

 Then another Lions event, the Dickensian Xmas market day
We get dressed up in old clothes and raise money for the
Seniors and pensioners of Wetherby who don't
get a xmas and we give them a party
 Here I am selling chances to guess the reindeer's name.  We had real reindeer too. And of course Santa was there granting wishes for kids

 The Kids all sang xmas songs for their supper, sort of cute, we also had the local silver band playing xmas tunes and the choral society doing xmas songs and a pipe organ machine doing xmas songs.... enough of the xmas songs already.

This is how we drag Santa around Wetherby.  Every night for a couple of weeks we hook this sleigh up and tug Santa through the residential streets of wetherby giving kids chocolates and collecting donations for the seniors party.  Santa is a big earner as it turns out.

 

  Anyway towards the end of the day we chose the name for the toy reindeer and in front of a huge crowd, which was there, nearly a hundred folk, but not in frame.  We called out the name of the winner who as usual was not in the crowd.  But we had a number so called up and the little girl came back in to town and collected her prize.  Most happy, most lovely.  We also sold a huge hamper, abou 18 kilos of bacon in our bacon butties, a fortune in sweet crepes, sold lots of winning tickets for cuddly plush stuffed lion toys and controlled the crowds wanting to sit on santas knee, generally an excellent market day in silly clothes.

Lots more pics on http://s1342.beta.photobucket.com/user/ward0007/library/Dickensian%20Christmas/#/user/ward0007/library/Dickensian%20Christmas?&_suid=13556510961570521976040590842 

 

 

ANYWAY, FOR NOW. HAVE A VERY HAPPY TIME .  SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR