New Forest Christmas Fair

Headed across to the New Forest this morning for the Christmas Fair held in New Park, Brockenhurst. After going to the magnificent Spring Fair back in... the spring! (see previous posts), we both got an email reminder from the New Forest/New Park events people about this weekend's show.

Got to the showground for 0930, but we were 30 minutes early so all the stall holders were still setting up. We had decided not to take the dogs as it was a bit nippy. It was a much smaller set up than the spring fair, probably as there was no horse/dog/animal show attached this time presumably due to the winter weather. After wondering around despondently for a while - we finally found the food tent

The coffee stall

- and felt more invigorated after a coffee and bacon/egg bap (which increased from £3 to £3.50 while we were waiting???) - both very nice.

Yummy Bacon and egg bap - watching the stall holders set up

Nice selection of various craft/Christmas/food stalls.


Stall selling 'floggies' - bizarre shoes

2 large tents full of stalls and then a variety of outside ones. It did not take too long to walk around.
Still a nice little morning out, and always a bonus that there is no parking charge and to have a nice drive through the forest.

New Forest ponies

But... not necessarily worthy of a long journey especially for this, unlike the Spring Fair at the New Park ground which definitely is.

Quiet afternoon in for Margaret, Jake and Jessie. Peggy and I headed off for a long walk by ourselves before Polly's hydrotherapy. We headed for a long trek around Barfoot's farm in Hook around the woods and fields.

Peg hunting - on a lovely sunny winters day

View across water reservoir on farm

The last 2 weeks Peg has found a deer's foot

The random deer's foot found

and an antler

The random fresh antler found

on separate walks in Whiteley, so now is on a mission to complete the jigsaw puzzle. Unfortunately for her we didn't see any live/deceased remains of any deer - so she resorted to checking out every badger sett instead,

Hunting down badger setts...

to no avail. Which is good news for the wildlife!

Pol in her coat after swimming

Jake has bounced back after his health scare 2 weeks ago (steroids are great!), so hopefully all dogs will be out at the same time next weekend.

See you next week....................