I warn you now, this post contains a Christmas Tree overload! I'll be taking you around a church that contains hundreds of them! But first, let me take you around our trip to Melton Mowbray and its Christmas Fayre.
The Victorian period is my favourite, especially at Christmas. Imagining Dickensian Britain and the Scrooge outlook always makes me feel happily fuzzy inside, but to actually live it would have been so incredibly hard. The local Bobby would have been more of a regular sight compared to nowadays.
It wouldn't be a market without the sound of the jingle jangle bells of Morris Dancers and the Molly Dancers.
This group are the Red Leicesters!
Of course a visit to Melton Mowbray means Pie! They were selling them everywhere, but we had to go to a proper shop to buy our purchase.
Looking inside the shop window I felt like that Victorian child, drooling at all the contents of the shop.
The Victorian period is my favourite, especially at Christmas. Imagining Dickensian Britain and the Scrooge outlook always makes me feel happily fuzzy inside, but to actually live it would have been so incredibly hard. The local Bobby would have been more of a regular sight compared to nowadays.
It wouldn't be a market without the sound of the jingle jangle bells of Morris Dancers and the Molly Dancers.
This group are the Red Leicesters!
Of course a visit to Melton Mowbray means Pie! They were selling them everywhere, but we had to go to a proper shop to buy our purchase.
Looking inside the shop window I felt like that Victorian child, drooling at all the contents of the shop.
Pork Pie and Boxing Day Chutney... delicious (and didn't last long!)
Of course, there was some Christmas shopping going on and some pretty and delicious shops to look into.
This florist really made me smile, I love the whole look. Christmassy and yet shabby chic. Gorgeous! I was so, so tempted to buy the hyacinths, but by Christmas they would have grown and died back. No, I'll have to get these locally I thought.
But enough of sitting around Queen Vic, where's the church of Christmas trees?
St Mary's Church in Melton Mowbray looks from the outside as just 'another church', but the queue outside was telling us something else. This church has an annual event of displaying hundreds of Christmas trees. Now, when I first wrote this post I thought it was 900 trees, but apparently they have beaten their record to over 1,200 trees.
So, let's go inside and let you feast your eyes on all the trees. A Christmas Tree overload!
My favourites had to be this one (I wonder why?!)
Oh and of course this one! It's Christmas, and a drink is necessary!
So how is your Christmas shopping going? I am literally itching to get out again and join the crush, but have a few more days rest before I can venture out and have my bandages removed. Very frustrating.
Once again, thank you for your visits and comments. I am feeling a little improved and now weaning off the pain killers, so there is light at the end of the tunnel.
This florist really made me smile, I love the whole look. Christmassy and yet shabby chic. Gorgeous! I was so, so tempted to buy the hyacinths, but by Christmas they would have grown and died back. No, I'll have to get these locally I thought.
But enough of sitting around Queen Vic, where's the church of Christmas trees?
St Mary's Church in Melton Mowbray looks from the outside as just 'another church', but the queue outside was telling us something else. This church has an annual event of displaying hundreds of Christmas trees. Now, when I first wrote this post I thought it was 900 trees, but apparently they have beaten their record to over 1,200 trees.
So, let's go inside and let you feast your eyes on all the trees. A Christmas Tree overload!
My favourites had to be this one (I wonder why?!)
Oh and of course this one! It's Christmas, and a drink is necessary!
So how is your Christmas shopping going? I am literally itching to get out again and join the crush, but have a few more days rest before I can venture out and have my bandages removed. Very frustrating.
Once again, thank you for your visits and comments. I am feeling a little improved and now weaning off the pain killers, so there is light at the end of the tunnel.
