title A Christmas Market, New Milton, Hampshire - 24th November 2018 intro It's a bit of a rainy day, but Jon the Hair is in New Milton on a rare visit, so we meet up in Costa on Station Road for a hot chocolate. Luckily, it's the New Milton Christmas Market, so there's also a bit of activity going on in town and all the roads are closed off. imgp7011 There's a World War One memorial bench on the Rec imgp7012 There's a French market on Ashley Road imgp7013 Looking back up Ashley Road imgp7014 Isobel, Harry and Fred on the rainy streets imgp7015 Ashley Road is blocked off by a stage imgp7017 A watery Station Road imgp7018 The centre of New Milton has been closed to traffic imgp7019 Harry meets a Santa Claus imgp7020 There's some nice singing on Station Road imgp7021 The boys look mesmerised at some giant sweet laces imgp7022 Looking back down Station Road imgp7023 People roam around on Station Road imgp7024 An Arnewood minibus, and a vintage Land Rover imgp7026 Fred wins at the "which is the real egg" game imgp7027 Harry does some sort of tombola imgp7030 Cool graffiti on the youth centre imgp7031 Some more street art imgp7033 A wet skate part in the recreation ground imgp7035 Concrete sculpture where the bowling green was imgp7036 Jon the Hair hangs around imgp7037 We don't know if this is sculpture or skater imgp7038 People mill around in the middle of New Milton imgp7039 The view from outside the old Safeway imgp7040 A closed-down shop on Station Road imgp7041 The legendary New Forest Stationers imgp7042 Sign o' the times, if the times is 1980 or so imgp7043 A charity-shop girl dances around to keep warm imgp7044 The boys outside a charity shop imgp7045 Bits of New Milton are looking decidedly run down imgp7046 More run-down buildings above the streets imgp7047 There's a stage set up on Ashley Road imgp7048 Onions on Ashley Road imgc2652 We stop off at Winchester Services on the M3 imgc2653 Harry loads up on stuff in Marks and Spencer imgc2655 Fred realises he's bought baked crisps imgc2657 Harry's got some sushi imgc2660 Harry looks around imgc2661 A reflected sign floats over the grey car park