I went to the town centre yesterday. Which is a miracle in itself.
I usually am too lazy don't have the time to do it. I found an hour or two yesterday afternoon. I wanted to check the Christmas decorations and the old holiday spirit. All I can say is: it was there and plenty of it!
Blaykatown has this tradition of putting up wooden stands next to the river, where you can get warm wine with cinnamon and other yummy alcoholic drinkies. Lots and lots of people stand around those stands and sample the merchandise long into the night. Yesterday was no exception.
The decorations are up, like every year. They look lovely, but they're probably no different than what you can find in any town in this time of year. I did, nevertheless, find something that moved me.
On the pictures below you can see an uninhabited house in the historic centre. During the rest of the year t is, literally, forgotten. But for the duration of this year's holidays, a local artist decorated it and lit the windows from the inside, put up some objects so that it looks like someone is home and added some nice music around it. The house just drives people to it. They stand around it and peek inside. The windows on the ground floor are purposely boarded-up. They have little holes through which you can see inside. I'm not telling you what you can see, because it's a secret. A lovely, lovely secret.
I do apologise for the quality of the pics - took them with my phone.
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Your town sounds like a very nice place indeed