I went on an expedition today to learn about Wassailing and it was indeed a rather spiritual experience; we should be much more aware of how important food is to us, especially fresh fruit and vegetables and how fragile our supply is based on changing weather patterns. I think the trees need all the help they can get based on our orchard at Sandhill House B&B.
Indeed, the Wassailers wore bright colours and certainly made enough noise to scare any evil spririts!
After galvanising the troups we all strolled over to the ancient orchard, and did our best to scare the evil spirits but then we moved off to the Mother Orchard, which is the new orchard where there are young trees spread across the fields.
And, another first, I even tried mulled cider - never had it before but it was much nicer than I expected.
