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Stir up Sunday is past and Advent is upon us. Whether we like it or not Christmas will soon be here. If trudging round the shops looking for the perfect but unusual present is something you dread, then make your way to Norwich Cathedral anytime between Friday 12th Dec and Sunday 14th for the second Great Christmas Market. Building on last year's popularity, the market this year is going to be far bigger and multi period. With mulled wine on sale in the cloisters, you can browse at your leisure around a wide variety of traders. Where else could you follow in the footsteps of the Wise Men and buy frankincense, myrrh, and possibly even the gold, or at least, jewellery based on designs of earlier periods? There will be a wide range of entertainment: songs from the 1940s, and the music of the trouveres. Story tellers will spin words into tales to delight young and old and Garbag, Norwich's medieval magpie, will once again hope to intrigue visitors with her tales of the relics which she may (or may not) have to show. Traders will range between pottery, rocks and fossils, clothing and shoes of earlier times, sweets and traditional gingerbread, toys and games, sheepskins and pewter - to name but a few. One thing you can be sure of though, things on sale here won't be replicated in high street stores, nor will they be reduced in a sale on Boxing Day. There is excellent food for sale in the refectory, and if the !0 am start on Friday and Saturday is not convenient, then the market doesn't open until midday on Sunday, which will allow plenty of time to attend the cathedral service first and really prepare for Christmas. This event is once again organised by Black Kinght Historical, and further information can be obtained from the link below: http://www.blackknighthistorical.co.uk/diary.htm |