Yes it's that wassaily time of year again and anyone who isn't too far away is most welcome to the Whimple Wassail in East Devon on olde twelfth night(17th January).

Our Somerset cousin wassail in Carhampton will also be taking place that night but unlike Carhampton, Whimple is a shamefully "broken" tradition (bloody WWII) which was lovingly fixed by the Whimple History Society in 1993. Fifteen years on it's very much alive and hopefully back to it's old joyful self; our claim to fame is that the reverand Sabine Baring-Gould wrote about the Whimple Wassail in his book 'Devon Characters and Strange Events' published 1908. Oh and the wonderful and sadly missed Whiteway's Cyder factory which was based in the village, mmm!

So if you're temted then do pop along, always a good session/singsong in the cricket club afterwards, lots of cyder, cheese and applecake!