Northamptonshire mud rather than snowflakes on Santa’s boots! Well, it’s that sort of year.
Despite the rain, the mud and the coronavirus, in early evening a few days before Christmas a cheerful group of villagers gathered on Castle Hill to sing traditional carols. A Christmas tree provided by the Parish Council and decorated by volunteers formed a focus of attention. However, where once everyone would have huddled around the tree for shelter and mutual harmony, singers kept to their family groups or were dotted around as individuals, maintaining the regulation distances, almost invisible to each other. Santa took time off from his pre Christmas tasks to lead the singing with his fiddle. If ever there was a need for some mid-winter cheer, however simple and home made, it was during this “annus horribilis” called twenty-twenty which will soon, hopefully, be banished to history.
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Photo: Graham Roberts
Photo: Neil Higginson
Photo: Graham Roberts
Photo: Graham Roberts
Photo: Graham Roberts
Photo: Neil Higginson
Photo: Graham Roberts