Market day

The Trosa Christmas Market was on today. Like every market I’ve been to in Trosa, it was very crowded. So much so that, as we tried to walk across the main bridge in the centre of town, Mirinda decided it was too crowded and reversed direction. The girls were very happy with this decision.

I’d suggested that we could walk along the river, or stream as Jonas calls it, and cross the bridge further down but Mirinda had a much better idea and we were soon sitting down to an amazing lunch at Mat Studio.

I discovered that there’s one thing better than having a celebration dinner at Mat Studio and that’s having an unexpected lunch at Mat Studio.

They were doing a roaring trade given it was just after midday and a lot of Christmas shoppers had decided it was the best place to rest their butts for a bit. Smart people.

The reason we were there just after midday was because my wife had slept in for a rather long time after our late night. To be fair, I slept in as well, though I did wake up three hours before her. I was going to start hanging the Christmas lights given it was the first advent Sunday, but I was concerned I’d disturb her. I also forgot where they were.

Speaking of Christmas lights…our neighbours have all started putting up their lights including the dead one next door. This was rather weird. The van has gone to be replaced by coloured lights. Do the dead like pretty lights as well? I guess so.

I did manage to place the advent lights in the windows though. So that’s something. I’ll hang the outside lights tomorrow.

Anyway, having eaten, we ventured out and approached the market from the back. It was still, obviously, crowded but at least we weren’t shoulder to shoulder with total strangers. Which was another thing. We didn’t see anyone we knew. Okay, a guy with a very impressive beard gave me a big, hearty hello as if he’d known me all my life but, as I explained to Mirinda, this is a pretty regular thing among the bearded.

And so we strolled between the stalls with Mirinda stopping and buying things as we went. Among this torrent of purchases were two jars of the most amazing local honey. The man behind the counter told me all about his honey, giving me little tastes of each one. One of them was from raspberry flowers and tasted amazing. Obviously I bought some.

Something else that tasted amazing today were Jonas’ saffron buns. I love a saffron bun, but may never have another one now I’ve had the best. Seriously delicious.

KSP and Jonas had Thomas and Kitten visit them today so we popped over to see them. We met them back on the cuddle a chick day when Thomas took the rather flattering photo of me wearing the chicken hat.

Unfortunately, we arrived shortly after they’d left, so we didn’t see them. Still, we sat around and chatted for ages, sampling Jonas’ wonderful baked goods. He’s a very good baker. I’m sure I’ve mentioned that before. We were very spoiled.

He is also a dab hand with exercises, and he very generously took me through a few that could help in my fight against my lack of nerves. Who knows, one day I may be able to walk like a normal person again.

Actually, it’s my lack of proper walking, standing and balancing that causes me the most trouble in crowds. Mind you, it does help in stopping me falling over.

In the meanwhilst, Nicoline went to the market at 10, when it opened. She’s a smart woman, Nicoline.