Could I add the Salford Wassail on the back of this please, Spleen? It is the season to be jolly after all...

It has come to mean something different in Salford over the years and the Wassailer has become the Wassailant. Rather than going door to door, or window to window as was more common, to raise money, the Salford Wassailant has now developed a system of Wassailing anyone who passes.

Wassail, Wassail we all want some cash
My giro is late I can't go on the bash
We'll rob some old bird and sell dodgy trees
Score some crack and take plenty of ease*

*The full meaning has, like other such traditions, been lost in the mists of time. Or the smogs of time in this case.

Cheers

DeG