Ashleigh, Dave's neice, came to stay with us yesterday and we all went down to Chester for the morning. The first Wednesday of every month there is a regional Farmer's market there which I'd been waiting to go to since September! Why hadn't I gone earlier? Well we weren't here in October or November due to the lack of ADSL, so this has been the first Wednesday of the month that I've been up this end of the country (she says as if she's majorly far north!!!).

Anyhow, we found the Farmer's market which I'll write more about over at Food 'n Drink. I bought my Dad some real Cider (none of that fizzy rubbish ) which he'll enjoy. We then took a wander around the main shopping street. I've not been in Chester for about 5 years and it was just how I remembered. Chester is so amazingly pretty. It's got a beautiful old english feel to it, and it makes use of two storeys for the shops. You have the shops on the street or you can go up stairs onto a type of balcony on either side of the street and wander along past more shops. I really should have gotten some photos but we'll definitely be going back in February when the market is on again (January's date is moved to just before Christmas).

Around the shops we picked up a few more Christmas presents for people and watched Ashleigh shop, and shop, and shop After finishing in Chester we dropped the bags off back home and then went down to Cheshire Oaks outlet park to get some lunch and pick up some more presents. We've now got virtually all of the Christmas shopping done, all of them are wrapped which just leaves the cards to write