Out and about at Stowe for a Wassailing to scare away all the bad spirits from the trees and to ring in a New year. But first of all what does any queen of Wassailing need and that is her very own leafy crown and noisy shaker as any Wassailer knows a good bit of noise is sure to freighting those pesky naughty spirits back into their hidey holes.While we were making our noisy shaker using conkers and pine cones in cup with a lid the Midshires Orchard group and the Milton Keynes Lobo Tren Samba group where making as big of a racket as they could outside, Racket in a good way, as that was the purpose to make lots of noise, to frighten away any naughty and bad spirit that might be hanging around. It was very hard to stand still with all the loud samba music which got into your feet and hips and made us jiggle. After a parade around the ground all to the funky Samba music we went on a hunt of our own with our very noisy shaker and gave those naughty spirits what for!!! No bush to small, no tree to tall, all nooks and crannies covered before Queen Sophie of Wassailing was happy the New year would go off with a good start.
