Christmas Fair

 It was the Christmas Market down in the square, and the Buttermarket and by the Clocktower, and also the Christmas craft fair up at the Castle.  The town was packed (and so was the car park).

I got a Christmas tree decoration in the shape of a star with a picture of a hare on it from Bolgoed Crafts, and admired the pottery and wooden stuff, prints and cards, bags and hats and knitwear and waistcoats, and olive oil and jewellery (and more) on three floors of the Castle.

Also on at the Castle is a free exhibition called The Art of the Book, which is work by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.  He's done a lot of artwork for book covers and illustration, and a lot of that has been mythological.  He's done art for the Folio edition of the Iliad and the Odyssey as well as Beowulf.

Down in town there was a mixture of vintage goods and high quality crafts, cider and gin and even goat curry.  Also cakes and baskets and comics and vintage clothes and sheepskins and plants and metal garden ornaments and Origin Pizza....

Lauren from the comic stall told me that they would be moving into the shop in Castle Street where Rohan started out.  As well as selling comics and graphic novels, they're hoping to do things like having vintage video game nights (like Mario Kart).

I missed George the Town Cryer, but there was a choir singing in Welsh by the Clock Tower.  I recognised a few familiar faces.  They were very good.

 The craft fair at the Castle is also on tomorrow, Sunday.