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WESTBURY |
Wassailers warming up
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| Mick Fletcher
and Barry Lane have recently acquired a cider press, which gives
them a vested interest in ensuring a good crop of apples in the
coming year
-- and an excellent excuse for some
of Westbury’s residents, suitably fortified with mulled cider, to
exhort trees in Westbury orchards to give of their best.
Thanks to trees in each orchard were ministered to by the Wassail King and Queen by hanging toast soaked in cider on each tree and a sprinkling of cider to their roots. Edwin Phelps and Peter Laws took it in turns to blast trees with their shotguns, the wassailers sang and a peasant disguised as John Barkle insisted on chanting dancing around each tree .
Suitable
refreshments were provided by hosts Mick and Buffy Fletcher, to whom
many thanks for a delightful evening. |
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The
revellers then staggered back to Old Ditch Farm for the burning of
the ash faggot, embers from which will be used to light next year's fire.
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