THE FOOL

Went to Lincoln Christmas market yesterday it was first held in 1982 with only 11 stalls an estimated 250,000 will attend over the four days it his held on  my hip was suffering half way round I was in pain climbing the inclines and steps really took it out of me I woke up the following  morning in agony I had to take painkillers I guess I did too much walking even though  we did not rush and took a steady pace .

To be honest I went last year going this year it did seem a bit boring the same stalls selling the same goods they had last year which I guess it being a Christmas market you would expect.The park and ride was good value for a car it was £15 and there was plenty off buses laid on to take you to the venue .The bus ride was only a ten minutes if that .

Some of the prices obviously included a great mark up a venison pork and mushroom sausage sandwich which was one standard size sausage in a dry oversized  bread roll £5 no onions  , doughnuts cost £1 each these was t around the size of a standard coffee cup the best value was a brandy coffee for £3.50 , Helen bought pot pourri and two bottles scented burning oil . Oh well  done until next year. When we got back to the car the cars queued up wanting to exit was unbelievable long Lucky we were parked nearly  half way up and got out in fifteen minutes.

THE FOOL ?

THE MEDIEVAL MARKET

The medieval Christmas market cost only  £1 to enter , and  it was extended this year to other parts of the castle the outer sections had canvas tents and straw thrown on to the stone floor to walk on , we bought a small carved little brown oak mouse to go on one of the  inner  door frame of our van .