Interesting to hear about the Howlers going out between Christmas and the New Year and combining the house-to-house wassail and the orchard wassail. I thought that traditionally, Howling was an orchard wassail, so is this an extension to the original tradition?

Our folk choir went wassailing around our small Gloucestershire town with a wassail bowl before Christmas before ending up at the pub.   The bowl was decorated by fairy lights, so we claim to have the only battery-operated wassail bowl in existence.

We may develop the tour more this year.

I know there are hundreds of orchard wassails help in January but I wondered if anyone else was doing the house-to-house thing around Christmas.

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