Bath Christmas Markets

Last week we thought we'd do a spot of christmas shopping at the Bath christmas markets, which was a temporary collection of cutesy little wooden huts filled with cutesy little gifts. A lot of it was pretty ordinary stuff but it was all very attractively done, in the square outside the Abbey:
We got very suitable pressies for Johnny's auntie and his granny, who we'll be spending Christmas Day with, and Amanda picked up a nice print of one of Bath's picturesque crescents. For herself :-)

It was also the official turning-on of the lights on the Big Tree and the christmas lights which were strung up along the main streets. We hung around until 6pm, waiting in the square outside the baths for the illuminations to fire up. We were parked right in front of the 10-metre christmas tree at 5.57 waiting for the 6 o'clock countdown, when we heard the last few numbers of the countdown echoing from somewhere around the corner! D'oh! The lights on the tree flicked on with a grumble from the assembled crowd, and stayed on for a full 5 seconds before abruptly clicking out again! The crowd's disappointed "awww..." was quickly followed by the ironic cheer when it turned back on again. Hilarious!