Kazoos to the lips, some Christmas songs in the playbook and rain that passed just in time – what more could we ask for as we launched our festive campaign for 2024.

The atmospheric picture above was taken by a young girl passing by with her parents. It looked like a toy but was clearly a polaroid-type camera which gave an instant print-out. Who needs fancy phone cameras, eh? Surely a future Annie Leibovitz who will go on to photograph the next generation of the rich and famous! Many thanks to her and I’m sorry we didn’t get her name.

Meagre pickings due to having to play next to Minster Pool – there were ominously loud noises coming from a giant TV screen set up in Market Square which prompted us to move from our usual Dam Street spot – but every little helps, as some supermarket will have it.