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Evelyn’s Butterfly Effect was created in memory of our 15-year old daughter Evelyn, to encourage random acts of kindness. Because, let’s face it, the world needs more kindness! The butterfly effect is the idea that if a butterfly flaps its wings on one side of the earth, it is said to cause a hurricane on the other side. It is the scientific theory that a single occurrence, no matter how small, can have significant consequences. And so it is with kindness. A single, simple act of kindness can have enormous consequences, which you may never see. Every single act of kindness creates a new wave of positivity that did not exist before.

Evelyn was an incredibly kind, thoughtful and generous girl. Even when she was unwell with her mental health, she went out of her way to help others with empathy and kindness. Evelyn quite often had no idea what a wonderful impact she had on other people.

Fancy getting involved and spreading some kindness in your community?

It’s easy to get involved – businesses and individuals – go out and surprise someone with a random act of kindness! It doesn’t have to be anything ‘big’. The small acts of kindness are often the ones that mean the most to people. For example…

• Flowers for a stranger
• Chocolates for a volunteer
• Bake a cake for someone to enjoy
• Leave random gifts for people in your community to find

Evelyn’s butterfly effect cards can be used to encourage the recipient to ‘pay forward’ the kindness too. These are available in the following locations in Sleaford:

• The Hub
• The Pottery Painting Cafe
• Sleaford Leisure Centre

Head to our social media pages for more information and inspiration!

@Evelynsbutterflyeffect

@evelynsbutterflyeffect

@evelyn_b_effect

Share your pics!
We love to see stories and pictures of kind acts on social media – please tag us or use: #evelynsbutterflyeffect
That way we will be able to see the ripple effect of kindness – Evelyn’s butterfly effect in action…

Jenni and Jack, Evelyn’s proud parents x

Kindness is free, sprinkle that stuff everywhere!

If you or a loved one require support with your mental health, please reach out to the following helpline services:

• Papyrus Hopeline (under 35’s) – 0800 068 41 41
• Samaritans – 116 123
• Shout – text 85258
• LPFT mental health helpline (adults) – 0800 001 4331
• LPFT Here4You (children and young people) – 0800 234 6342

Together We Are Powerful is the name of a new programme at The Hub, featuring an exhibition unlike anything we’ve seen before there, co-produced by YOU, the community. Set to take place from July 22^nd to November 12^th, there will also be workshops, trails, gatherings, talks, and meals, all within a program that aims to provide a platform for everyone to come together and share and experience the stories that shape our community.

This exceptional exhibition signifies a momentous occasion as The Hub celebrates its 20th anniversary of embracing culture, creativity, and community, while also looking forward to the next 20 years of growth and evolution. At the heart of the program lies a series of elements that invites people to get involved. Anyone is being encouraged to bring in personal objects that hold significant stories. These objects might symbolise past relationships, special memories of holidays, or moments of triumph over significant challenges. The concept is beautifully simple yet remarkably impactful: an object and its accompanying narrative, contributing to our collective memory and understanding of our shared desires for the future.

The Hub warmly welcomes the entire community of Sleaford and surrounding area to embark on this captivating journey of curiosity and creativity. To oversee this program, The Hub brought in artist Kate Genever and we caught up with her at one of the developmental meetings where ideas were explored.

Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your background?

I am an artist and also have a farm with my family in Uffington, south Lincolnshire. It’s a traditional mixed farm with cows and sheep. As an artist, I work in communities across the country where I spend extended periods of time and build relationships. I use what’s called an asset-based approach, so I look for what’s good and build on it to develop outcomes that are completely unique to each place that I work. I work closely with people and we then try and work out what would be relevant, what’s needed, how can we use what’s already good and brilliant there to build on that, and see how creativity can support what’s already in that area. For example, at the moment I’m working in west Hull in a community and one of the major outcomes is we now produce a newspaper for that community. It’s written and edited and put together by and for that community.

I was invited by The Hub to support them as they wanted to celebrate their 20^th year and they wanted to work with the wider community to co-produce the programme for the July 22^nd to November 12^th slot. But I suppose they didn’t know exactly how to go about it, as co-production is about readjusting who gets to make decisions, so they invited me to support them. Primarily I’m interested in building deep connections with people in celebration and support of their site-specific responses, so how do we make something that’s right for a particular place, and how do we build connections with people and how can creative ways of working support that? People say farming’s so different from being an artist and actually I think it’s very similar because it’s about caring deeply about the landscape and the things that live within it, building and using its strengths to do more and to nourish and produce good things.

In a nutshell, how would you describe what the exhibition Together We Are Powerful is about?

Together We Are Powerful is a title that was generated from one of the groups. It’s a dynamic town-wide celebration that takes place from 22^nd July to the middle of November. It will include exhibitions and workshops and gatherings and events, suppers, all sorts of things for people to get involved in as well as to look at. It’s a programme that will happen inside The Hub and in spaces and on the street outside it. It’s there to celebrate The Hub’s 20^th anniversary and it’s keen to explore diverse voices and different communities within the town. Its whole theme that it’s basing the programme around is the importance of objects and their stories in our lives. We spend our lives coveting, collecting, creating objects and then finding comfort in their stories.

Running up to it you’ve held a series of community meals, the last of which I came to; how have they all gone down and are you happy with the progress you made in those?

Of course. I have the belief that generosity breeds generosity, so if you offer people a lovely time, a nice place, good food, people can’t help themselves but be generous back. The Hub is really pleased that people have come. I think they couldn’t believe that people would come to those things and also share such brilliant ideas. Each has been different. A part of them is about exploring people’s own personal stories and then trying to find more ideas for what people might like to do or get involved in. I think that we shouldn’t underestimate that many organisations are unused to being so vulnerable. It’s quite hard to hold your hands up and say we’re handing it over to you or we want to hear from you. It’s a brave move. So I’m very pleased. I also know the answers are always in the room. I totally trust that whatever we need to know will come from the people in the room.

What sections of the community have you collaborated with for this exhibition and who else might you like to talk to?

We’ve engaged with the youth clubs, with different faith groups. We’ve had carers, other artists, community producers and leaders, teachers, and museums. We’ve had a really broad range. We’d really like to connect more strongly with people from different cultural backgrounds. We know they’re in the town and we know that their heritages and cultural lives will be totally brilliant and we’d love to have their voices included and to hear their ideas.

In terms of The Hub, do you have ideas or hopes of your own for how The Hub can develop its role in the community in the future?

I’m always hopeful that organisations will continue to throw open the doors and let people in not just as visitors but as co-producers, as people that have the skills and experience and ideas to generate fantastic content for programs. So I guess I’m hopeful that The Hub from this experience will continue to do more co-producing. Wouldn’t it be great every now and again to offer the program over to people in Sleaford to do what they want to do with it? It’s a public building using public money – let the public in. It’s also about ownership; people will feel more like they own the the heritage collections rather than somebody choosing what to display. People get to choose what they want to display and say, which gives us more confidence about our own lives and our own stories, and that’s why it’s really important to get as many diverse voices in that as possible.

The Hub have been brilliant. They’ve been fantastically open and enthusiastic about the process.

What are your impressions on Sleaford and its community? Do you think Sleaford has potential?

I’m going to answer this from a cultural perspective. I think it’s a bigger question around who and what we’re deciding to call culture, because I think people are engaging in cultural activity all the time whether that’s woodworking, cake-making or dressmaking. I think the dominance of an elite culture has often meant that places don’t see themselves as being rich in culture and of course Sleaford is hugely rich. It’s got a lot going on. Some of this is about us looking differently at what is there. I look at The Hub and that’s showcasing national, international exhibitions of artists’ work. That building is offering huge amounts of opportunity for people to get involved. So I would say your town is completely packed full of culture. Also there’ll be cultural activity that we can’t even see, that’s invisible to us. It’s about opening our eyes to see it because I absolutely know it’s there. The Hub is a fantastic resource. It’s a great space. It’s got a beautiful cafe, lovely staff, and a very rich program.

So the exhibition will still be on during the Riverlight Festival?

Riverlight sits alongside that programme because it’s all about Sleaford people, and the programme isn’t just the exhibition; it’s meals, things happening in the youth club, it’s stuff happening in different settings. But within The Hub there will be an exhibition in the middle floor space which has many things going on: donated, temporarily loaned objects from Sleaford people. We’re really keen for people to bring their objects and tell us their story around that object or, if they’ve lost an object, come and tell us a story of a lost object! Visitors will then be able to come and look at that object and read the story. It doesn’t have to be an expensive object. It could be a small thing but with a really powerful story. It doesn’t matter what the size is or what it’s made out of.

And essentially it’s an open invitation to the whole community?

Anyone can get in touch. We will have some examples of objects. I might put my first pair of reading glasses in it because they made me so sad, it made me cry in the opticians when I had to have glasses. It was a really powerful moment in my life because, obviously as an artist, I use my eyes a lot, and the thought of losing my sight is terrifying and made me sad. So yeah, it could be something like that. It doesn’t have to be your best bone china.

Together We Are Powerful will explore the extraordinary stories that bind us and imagine the immense potential that lies ahead. Don’t miss this extraordinary exhibition at The Hub in Sleaford between July 22nd and November 12th and become part of this vibrant and unique celebration. The Hub warmly welcomes the entire community of Sleaford and surrounding area to embark on this captivating journey of curiosity and creativity. You can contact them on info@hub-sleaford.org.uk

As a magazine, we have a broad sense of pride for our community and the people who contribute towards making our area such a great one to live. Pride is there in our DNA, and it might feel more than just chance that we find the very word in our company address. Yes, for us here at YLL HQ on Pride Court, there’s a sense of the stars aligning as we reflect on Pride Month, an observance dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community that celebrates diversity and equality, and considers how these communities are represented. It’s not only about the theory of it all, the distant places and figures we see on television, but about bringing it to the community level and looking at how we treat our friends, relatives, colleagues, or that stranger you meet in the street.

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” ~ The Dalai Lama

Read up on its history

June 1970 saw the first Pride Month following the Stonewall Riots that took place the previous year in New York. A popular place for the gay community, the Stonewall Inn was the scene of a riot following a police raid, and the ensuing event became something of a watershed moment. It’s a long story between 1969 and now, and, as with everything, it’s always useful to look back to see how we got here.

Attend a Pride event

Our corner of the world is seeing a growing popularity in Pride events. Lincoln Pride has been held since 2012 and is next scheduled for 19^th August at Tentecroft Street car park. Elsewhere, Mablethorpe Pride is into its second year later this month, 23^rd – 25^th June. Time for one in Sleaford?

Solidarity, brothers! … And sisters! … And NBs!

Like Kermit the Frog once sang, there’s a lot of songs about rainbows; there’s a lot of items of clothing with rainbows on them these days too! Show your support by wearing some rainbow apparel, pinning the flag in your front window, or decorating your office. The rainbow symbol represents diversity in its range of colours, and unity in how they all fit together.

Listen

Open up those communication channels whether that’s in your workplace, school, club etc. Make an effort to truly understand those around you. Show they have a voice and are safe to express themselves.

Get on the World Pride Web

Social media can be a great way to show your support for Pride Month. Create a temporary avatar or profile pic, share an article on the subject, speak up.

Bake rainbow cupcakes

Deep down we’re all the same inside, so embrace those levellers. One thing we can all share in is our love of cake!

Carry it through

Compassion is for life, not just for select times of the year.

“We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.” ~ George Takei

Best foot forward with Team YLL’S personal favourite local strolls:

Julie – Me and the hubbie like to walk along London Road through Silk Willoughby, down Gorse Lane, cutting through the fields. Depending which turn you take, you can arrive at the back of Southfields or in to Mareham Pastures Nature Reserve. Approx. 4 miles.

Rich – A favourite walk that my wife and I like to do is along the river by Haverholme Priory. There’s a lovely little waterfall into an old lock, plenty of birds (we’ve seen herons, woodpeckers and the kingfisher) and of course the eye-catching ruins of the priory that you can see across a field.

Kerry – Sausage & monsters love the local fields behind our home in Ruskington: across Pooh Bridge, through the crazy chickens and to the Faraway Tree! Without disturbing the angry-geese!

Mel – Belton Park is one of my favourite places to go for a walk. Local to me and only 20 minutes from Sleaford, it’s a walk that can be enjoyed and appreciated over the changing seasons. The deer and sheep graze quite happily as you wander past and it’s always lovely to hear the lambs and birdsong during the springtime. It’s a breath of fresh air!

LOCAL WALKING GROUPS:

Sleaford & District Ramblers – www.sleafordramblers.org.uk

Tattershall Wellness Walks – www.wellnesslincs.com contact Zoe 07921 553849 / info@wellnesslincs.com

A Broken Mind – Facebook group contact Ryan 07870 505014

Though it’s sometimes thought to be a distraction, research actually suggests it has a positive impact on both engagement, creativity, and purpose, which in turn increases employee retention and reduces absenteeism and work-related error. A sense of fun helps people to have a more positive mind-set, enjoy higher levels of wellbeing and better mental health. Fun in the workplace is essential!

When a timeout is needed, I’ll pull out my Would You Rather book and ask my workmates to choose between two winless scenarios. We’ve discovered the office is the perfect environment for random scavenger hunts, and for some reason this involves an OXO cube. None of us even know why! We’ve also learnt it’s best not to turn your back for too long round here, what with all the pranks going on. I have literally blown Julie’s eardrums letting off party cannons, taped Rich’s chair and stuck googly eyes on his desk, and grabbed Mel’s ankles after hiding under her desk. One morning, Julie couldn’t do any work until she found the mouse hiding in the cupboard… Actually her computer mouse, of course! My personal favourite is the classic Veggie Pal (Veg-te-pal) and Fruit Friend creations, for who can resist bringing Brian the Broccoli to life, building a Mr Butternut or even admiring the cute cucumber!?

These gems of gaiety may only last for a few whimsical seconds or take hours in the planning but they are fantastic stress busters and levellers. It’s all too easy to get swept away with adulting and responsibility; sometimes our inner child needs to be set free. Sometimes, maybe we need to share the workplace giggles over the dinner table: ‘you’ll never believe what Rich did today…’ reliving the laughs, manifesting merriment and success while reducing stress and negativity. I’m with Miranda (Hart) and unashamedly see the benefits to galloping into the office with cake, swirling around on the office chair until we’re dizzy, and fighting for googly eyes to be as essential as staples…

Kerry x

As we reached the milestone of our 18^th birthday, we naturally found ourselves in a reflective mood and so we decided to rummage through the YLL archives to look back at the journey our publication has been on.

One constant during these 18 years has been our company director, Karen James, who was the one to come up with the idea of creating a local directory to distribute amongst the neighbours of her local area. There were many late nights as she juggled parenthood and home renovations at the same time as putting together the inaugural directory from the front room of her home.

Edition 1 of “The Sleaford Lincs Directory” landed through your letterboxes in February 2005, a 24 page booklet mostly in black and white. It’s fascinating to see that in this very first edition we find various advertisers who continue to appear in our magazine to this very day. Over the coming years the team also produced various other local directories that were distributed in other areas around Sleaford.

The magazine continued to evolve throughout the noughties and by the end of 2010 it started to resemble the publication we recognise today with its eye-catching front covers. As you can see, the December 2010 edition featured a custom-made illustration by someone who worked for the magazine at the time, depicting her and all her colleagues as they ride a festive sleigh – if only we could deliver our magazine to you like that every December!

As the magazine went into the next decade, distribution between both the Sleaford and Village magazines was up to 20,500 homes and businesses, a few thousand off the tally we stand at today. 2011 was an important year as it was on the 5^th anniversary that the magazines were merged into one with a new-look ‘Your Sleaford Lincs’, but it was the following month in March when the magazine was named ‘Your Local Lincs’ and as you’ll see, that’s how things have remained to this day!

Your Local Lincs has been an integral part of our community over the years, advertising countless businesses, putting their name in front of all our many readers and, in turn, helping the local economy go round. For many, the magazine continues to serve as a directory so that when someone needs a particular service, Your Local Lincs is sitting there on their coffee table and so is the first port of call.

With the distribution area expanding to over 23,000 homes and businesses across 50 villages, you can appreciate it has meant we’ve required a rather large team of distributors to get this load of magazines through all these doors! Currently we have 47 distributors on that team, so it’s quite likely the number of distributors we’ve had over the years runs into the hundreds. Many of these have been young teenagers experiencing the world of work for the first time, learning about such delightful grown-up things as time management and responsibilities. Local schoolchildren have also undergone work experience programs here in the office over the years, with us taking them under our wing and showing them how a local independent business is run.

Beginning in 2015, Your Local Lincs sponsored the NK Community Champion Awards for a number of years with YLL presenting various awards to members of the local area to celebrate the contributions they’ve made to our community. Supporting charities as well as coordinating charity campaigns of our own has also been at the heart of our activities.

For the more recent staff members who have been through the doors at YLL, we have joined the team as readers of the magazine who already recognise what an invaluable resource it is to our local area, and so have continued that ethos of serving our own community. We have a genuine passion to fly its flag. Every month we go out there getting to know you and your clubs, charities, businesses etc.

So now the magazine has reached 18 years old, it’s surely as apt a time as any to raise a glass and look forward to many more years of being the little pocket of sunshine community magazine that appears through your letterbox every month. A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to our pages over the years with their articles, adverts, news, photographs, etc. and to everyone who reads our pages.

Your Local Lincs Team x

As we were putting the December edition together, Kerry had the honour of chatting over the telephone with the one and only Basil Brush. They discussed the new Christmas single that Basil and his friend from Sleaford, Chris Clark, have released this year, and much, much more that we simply couldn’t fit onto the pages of our magazine. How does Basil rate his chances of getting the Christmas number one spot? Who would he like to meet under the mistletoe? Find out in our video that includes some exclusive behind-the-scenes material from the film shoot that took place right here in Lincolnshire:

We met up with local musician and filmmaker Chris Clark who kindly took time out of his busy schedule to talk to us about the epic video project he’s been working on this year. Boom! Boom! It’s Christmas Again is a festive song written and produced by Chris and sung by his foxy pal, legend of stage and screen Basil Brush. It’s something that has already been making waves in the media world. You may have even seen it in the national newspapers, or Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid talking about it on Good Morning Britain, and we hear there are further spots lined up. We at Your Local Lincs have had an inside look at the production of the music video throughout the year. Here’s an extended version of our chat with Chris, the ‘director’s cut’…

You’ve released Christmas music videos for a number of years now. Can you tell me what this year’s tune is and how did it all come about?
This year’s is the biggest, most ambitious one yet (and that’s saying something!). I’ve enlisted the vocal talents of Basil Brush to release a brand new song called Boom! Boom! It’s Christmas Again.

Basil and I both share a love for Christmas music, and we’ve talked about the possibility of doing something like this for a number of years. We first worked together in 2014, and instantly hit it off.

I’ve been desperate for a new, decent quality “proper” Christmas song to get into the charts for ages, and so I thought ‘Why not try to write one myself, and get an awesome celebrity to sing it?!!!’ And here we are!

Can you tell us about your past Christmas song releases?
In 2011 I recorded a song called Christmas Number One. I took all the sickly sweet Christmas clichés, and bunged them into one song! A quick video of me harassing unsuspecting Sleafordian shoppers (with the help of Rich on camera), and we’d made a local hit! I felt like a celebrity that Christmas! Every time I went out in Sleaford, people would talk to me about the song or sing it at me (or call me rude names!).

I’ve also worked with local children, which is incredibly gratifying. Most notably, with William Alvey Christmas, which made the Amazon top ten, and then the special lockdown song Christmas Bubble, which really seemed to lift everyone’s spirits and gave local children the chance to get involved in something creative, despite the restrictions. That song actually spent one day at the number one spot in the iTunes Christmas chart!

What are your favourite Christmas songs and have any of them influenced your own songs?
There are so many I adore; I love the bittersweet magic of songs like I Believe in Father Christmas and Fairytale of New York, and of course all the obvious favourites. I’m a huge fan of some of the beautiful carols, like Coventry Carol and Gabriel’s Message. The first Christmas song that I actually remember going to number one is Do They Know it’s Christmas, so that holds a special place in my heart. I also really enjoy the crooners, like Bing and Nat King Cole. There are so many good Christmas songs!!

What’s it like working with Basil Brush?
Basil is the very best! He’s such a star and yet still so down to earth, even after 60 years in the business. We always bounce ideas off each other and our shared enthusiasm creates a magic atmosphere whenever we are working on a project together. We are very much on the same page, creatively. That really helps us to get the best out of our work, I think. We also laugh a heck of a lot, when we are working together.

What’s the chances this one can get to Christmas number 1?
Realistically, the number one spot is incredibly difficult to achieve for anyone, ten times more difficult at Christmas, and a million times more difficult without a big record company, or a huge marketing team, or any real budget to speak of. So on paper, the odds are stacked against us! However, I do believe that if you aim high enough, there’s always a chance of doing something magical. Ultimately, if enough people hear about the song and like it enough, the public will decide. Fingers crossed, eh?!!!

How can our readers help the cause?
Download the song! It’s as simple as that. Streaming it is also okay, but for a tiny 70p (or thereabouts) the chances of it charting are so much greater. I think 100 streams is equal to 1 download to the official charts!

We understand Basil is joined by a lot of his pals in this video. Can you give us an idea of who to expect?
I’ve spent a long time phoning up icons of British telly this year! The effort has paid off though, as we now have over 30 special guests in the video, including Mr Blobby, Zippy George and Bungle, Hacker T dog, and many, many more.

Is this video aimed at younger or older audiences would you say?
The whole project was very specifically crafted to appeal to EVERYONE. It’s not often a good idea to go too broad with an artistic project’s appeal, but with a Christmas song/video, I think it’s the one time that those rules don’t apply. We want everyone to get a little bit of joy from the project, whether it’s that warm nostalgia of seeing Muffin the Mule appear, or that cosy Christmas feeling the song conjures up, or the big laughs that the likes of Basil and Hacker T dog always provide.

If you were a puppet, who would you be? And who would be your puppeteer?
If I were a puppet, I think it would have to be Kermit. What a journey he has been on throughout the years. And his creator and original puppeteer, Jim Henson, has to be one of my biggest inspirations/influences of all time. I’m not sure I like the idea of where his hand would be, though.

What’s your plans for the future? Would you ever consider writing a Christmas song in conjunction with Your Local Lincs?
I have so many potential projects in my head. I’m not sure which will happen, but I’m keen to delve further into the world of Kids’ TV. My dream would be to have my own puppet-based show, made for television. I never tire of Christmas songs and will most likely write more in the future, so who knows? Chris and YLL may well be the next collaboration! I certainly know you share the same sense of fun as me, so I bet it’d be great!

You can watch the final music video here:

Check back to the Articles page soon to see more of our chat with Basil Brush!

“I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, but how I love the gifts I give!”

The words of Carolyn Wells most certainly resonate with us here at Your Local Lincs and if the donations to our charitable requests from our treasured friends of the magazine and valued customers are anything to go by, it is far from outrageous of me to think that they quite possibly reflect a piece of your heart too. We love Christmas – I certainly love it now I have removed the stress and simply embrace the finer flavours of her; hot chocolates, cosy slippers and eating my body weight in candy canes whilst alternating the watching of It’s a Wonderful Life and Elf!

One thing I do struggle with is the fact that I love buying Barbies and colouring books and now my children are getting older they don’t seem to wish for these. Whilst sharing this with my YLL colleagues, we realised this was a shared feeling even down to discovering pretty bottles of bath salts and not knowing who to buy them for! And that is how this YLL Christmas Cheer idea was born… once again we are opening the YLL HQ doors with a donations for Christmas appeal and turning to you to support us. We are all too aware of the current financial and economic climate and the varying levels of impact for people, particularly families. So, we reached out to a local secondary school with a track record of supporting families that could all too easily be forgotten. We aim to help alleviate some of the pressures that Christmas can bring to families within our readership area, replacing Christmas stress with Christmas cheer! We are proud to be supporting our local families through a school that is able to identify who will benefit the most from a helping hand and are delighted to invite you, our friends of the magazine, to join us.

By serving as a drop-off point, we will happily be receiving donations of anything from novelty slippers to cosy pyjamas, blankets to bedding, Barbies to board games, books, bath-time treats and toiletries (yes to the rubber ducks!) and of course food items are welcomed too. We will make use of the unwanted gifts you may have received, unopened underwear, BOGOFs on toothpaste and 2 for £7 books; one for you, one for donation! As this is about helping families, we are covering all sexes and ages so there are no limits! Our doors are open Monday-Thursday from 9am-3pm and we look forward to greeting you when popping in to deliver your own droplets of Christmas magic.

Thank YOU! x