Some pictures from the Wassail at Hartpury on 31st January:
These were taken by Ann Smith.
There are some more pictures on the Hartpury Orchard Facebook page, taken by Terry Darrington:
Wassail, wassail, all over Gloucestershire
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It’s wassailing time in many of our local orchards and we have a number of events already on the website.
You can see the full list here: https://glosorchards.org/home/events/?tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=list&tribe-bar-date=2020-01-01&tribe-bar-search=wassail
Do have a look and come along to one – and if your event isn’t listed let us know and we’ll add it!
The image below is the Stroud Wassail Song – which you may hear at some of the events:
Wassails 2018
Next month there are a number of traditional orchard Wassails which are well worth going along to. They are great fun for all the family: young and old alike. There’s often singing, story-telling, dancing, food and of course cider!
Our Partner Events page lists some of them – or you can click the links below to get more details on specific wassails:
- Horsley Wassail ‘ Sing to the trees ’, Saturday, January 6th
- Littleton Lifesaver Cider Wassail Friday, January 12th
- Horfield Organic Community Orchard Wassail, Saturday, January 13th
- Wick Court Wassail, Saturday, January 20th
- Hartpury Orchard Centre Wassail, Friday, February 2nd
Perry Christmas everybody!
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