On the look-out for presents with a difference?
If you're looking for something a bit different to give as a present, on Saturday and Sunday there will be plenty of opportunities to go on a Christmas market crawl and find unusual handmade items.
Between 10am and 4pm on Saturday 7th December, Friends of Broomfield Park are holding a Christmas Craft Sale in the former bowls pavilion, adjacent to the tennis courts. You'll find some exquisite items made by members of the Friends, such as bug hotels, honey pots, nesting boxes, paper knives, greeting cards, lino prints, artwork and home baking produce, including biscuits and apple & tomato chutney.
Also on Saturday there's a Christmas market in the lovely Angel Yard, just off Fore Street, south of the North Circ. Food, crafts, live music, mulled wine and hot cocoa.
On Sunday between 10am and 4pm the Festive Market organised by Arbeit Studios and the Palmers Green Action Team will be back, in two locations: Arbeit's studio at the rear of 310 Green Lanes and Devonshire Square, a bit further up Green Lanes and on the other side of the road. At the studio you'll also have a chance to admire the exhibition by Arbeit's current artist-in-residence while enjoying a glass of mulled wine. In the Square there will be live music.
Over in Arnos Park Father Christmas will be paying a visit to a celebration where you can indulge in mulled wine, toasted marshmellows and mince pies while enjoying music and buying from crafters.
A couple of other interesting Christmas markets that are not too far away, for you to visit after you've been to the markets in PG:
If you're looking for a touch of the exotic, on Saturday there will be a Silk Road Bazaar, where "artisans and craftspeople representing counties along the Silk Road showcase their finest products, stretching from Asia to the Mediterranean" at the British Library, next door to St Pancras Station.
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Recycling information
Long life milk
Long life juice/ squash
Tinned fruit
Tinned meat and Fish
Tinned vegetables and potatoes
Christmas food: stuffing, cranberry sauce and gravy
Christmas sweets, cakes, biscuits, puddings, mince pies
Christmas savoury snacks
Christmas crackers (that you pull)
Baby items: Nappies (4,5&6), milk, food
Toiletries (shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, toothpaste, toilet roll, washing powder
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