A crisp but fine Saturday morning saw Camdn's "festive fun" come to West Hampstead - see pevious post. There was a decorated float with a steel band, a goup of energetic singers pounding out taditional popular songs, a lady on stilts with the most amazing gold eyelashes and "Stella Polaris"(!) the Queen of the North Star and various helpers in Santa hats handing out leaflets and opportunities to win the "Golden Ticket" for free local shopping. There were also passersby, a press photographer and the Leader of the Council - West Hampstead Councillor Keith Moffitt. After a couple of rather chilly hours the cavalcade moved onto another High Street - its all part of the "Shop Local" "Love Your High Street" initiative from the Council. We agred that we would make sure communications about it and involvement with local shops and businesses started earlier if we were to have it another year. But it was all good fun!
My busy Saturday had started with our Councillor's surgery followed by a meeting with traders in Mill Lane worried about their revaluing for business rates ( Government has to take blame for this - not the Council) then after socialising at the court of Queen Stella (as above) I went with Cllr Russell Eagling to the Emmanuel school Fayre where he won a bottle of pink champagne in their raffle! (I won nothing but bought a couple of paperbacks which I shan't have time to read)
There were all sorts of things happening in West Hampstead and Fortune Green this weekend - Christmas Fayres at Beckford as well as Emmanuel and on Sunday a "Winter Warmer" organised by (W)HEART at the Mill Lane Open Space (inside the Garden Centre fortunately) at which I "adopted" a toad - although I haven't ever seen one there.
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