Christmas Fayre

 In the morning, I had plenty of time to look round the Christmas Fayre, both on the Market Square and through town, and in the Castle.  There were some wonderful stalls - pottery, hand carved spoons, interesting bric-a-brac, cider, wine, olive oil, vintage clothes, soaps, wicker baskets, and an ingenious arrangement with a big metal firepit behind barriers, where you could toast your own marshmallows on a long stick.

I bought a little bag from the stall of book related gifts, with a list of fanfiction tropes printed on the side: 

enemies to lovers

forbidden love

grumpy x sunshine

slow burn romance

star-crossed lovers

These are all basic plots that fan fiction authors use to put their characters (or rather, the characters from TV shows or books they are fans of) in interesting situations.  I am a fanfiction writer, so it was fun to see something so familiar on sale. 

I also treated myself to a good quality hand carved wooden mixing spoon, and a pottery star to add to my Christmas decorations.

Up in the Castle there were lots of stalls I recognised from last year, on all three levels of the castle, and also leather goods, and fabric bunting, and lots more.  The stalls in the Castle were also there on Sunday, but the ones in the square were only for the Saturday.

The Town Cryer was also there, and the Community Choir sang carols from the Castle steps.