Blandford Yuletide Festival Highlights - Part 3

 Stand To Attention 

Despite the cold 

this years Blandford Yuletide Festival was very, very busy

 This pic of Shaftesbury Town Band is a bit of a blur 

 After a while these accidental 

 blurry photos egin to look quite 

  cool, done on purpose and artistically pretentious! 

 I lurv this photo 

 it's amazing what a picture can look 

 like when your taking more notice of the 

 camera settings than the actual scenes you are capturing 

 The drum rolls on pa rum pa pum pum a man and his drum... 

 The crowds are moving in, 

 getting ready for a Christmas song or two 

 Blandford Market Place filling up with many a person 

 Nice pic, nice pic, bit o greenery n human life as well 

 O Come All Ye Faithful 

Disclaimer The Blandford Buzz always tries to seek permission before taking any photograph, though at a busy event you will probably appreciate that this is not always possible, however if for any reason, you do not wish your image or that of someone else to be featured on this blog post article, please contact The Blandford Buzz by email  blandfordbuzz@gmail.com

Blandford Yuletide Festival 2012 - More Highlights - Part 2

 A street seller doing his bit to add to a festival feel to the event 

 Queuing for some winter warming grub... 

 This geza's far too good a singer to be performing covers 

 Despite the street lighting etc this photo's quite dark 

 but hopefully you can see just how busy 

 the Blandford Yuletide Festival was 

 These two market sellers from Italy, 

 selling yummy Italian food at the Yuletide Fes 

 The camera used to take this photo really was playing up, 

 that or the wrong settings were used, sorry! 

 On the twelf o the twelf o the twelf 

 People came from miles around 

 to ye ole Blandford Town 

 Folks and families making their way 

 to Blandford Market Place 

 to join in with the carol singing at the fes 

 A street seller braves the winter cold 

 Another hazy photo 

 The Blandford Buzz does solemnly swear 

 to buy a camera in the January sales 

 (as long as said camera is under a hundred quid) 

  that can cope with night time and bright lights 

 Coming soon - 

 More low quality photos and video footage 

 of the Blandford Yuletide Festival 2012 ! 

DisclaimerThe Blandford Buzz always tries to seek permission before taking any photograph, though at a busy event you will probably appreciate that this is not always possible, however if for any reason, you do not wish your image or that of someone else to be featured on this blog post article, please contact The Blandford Buzz by email  blandfordbuzz@gmail.com

The Highlights Of Blandford Yuletide Festival 2012 - Part 1

Wow, it took an age and a half to put all the photos of yesterdays Blansdford Yuletide Festival on my computer hard-drive, let alone uploading all the film footage on YouTube but I'm sure you'l agree that it's worth all the effort.

 Talking about effort, Tim Storey - who one could say is the fourth top guy at Blandford Parish Church, cos obviously the BIG I AM THAT I AM is number one commando and then a dude called Yeshua aka Jesus Christ is the second in line and thirdly lets not forget the Holy Spirit - well between the four of them, along with Tims crew, aka the Blandford Yuletide Festival Committee, managed to put on an amazin evenin-into-the-night-time event and a spectacular festive firework grand finale...

SO THANKS GOD AND GSUS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT AND REVEREND TIM STOREY AND THE BYF Committee for giving Blandford an night to remember...

 The band just before they set off for the parade 

 And again... 

 We four cops are orient not, la la la la la la la la 

 By an act of serendipity this photo looks so absurd it's funny! 

 Apologies, the digital camera used for these pics 

 doesn't like night time... 

 Another ridiculous shot 

 This pic's a good un though and 

 these pirates are always game for the camera 

 These good natured four young guys 

 strike fun poses for the camera, cheers fellas!  

 Another bizarre photo of the parade 

continuing along East Street 

 Apologies for the quality of this footage 

 but it was fun keepin up wiv da crowd... 

 There's alot more pics and vids to come 

 of Blandford Yuletide Festival 

 over the next couple of days... 

Disclaimer : The Blandford Buzz always tries to seek permission before taking any photograph, though at a busy event you will probably appreciate that this is not always possible, however if for any reason, you do not wish your image or that of someone else to be featured on this blog post article, please contact The Blandford Buzz by email  blandfordbuzz@gmail.com

Yay It's The Blandford Yuletide Festival Tonight!

 The fun will begin @ 6pm / 18:00hrs 

 and will finish around 9pm / 21:00hrs 

Event Times 

@ 4pm / 16:00hrs the following roads

 in Blandford will be closed -

Church Lane

 East Street

Salisbury Street

Sheep Hill

West Street

@ 6pm / 18:00hrs The Blandford Yuletide Festival begins

The order of the main events are-

6:30pm / 18:30hrs Lattern Parade

accompanied by the Shaftesbury Town Band

and the Stour Valley Brass Band

around -

East Street

Market Place

Salisbury Street

The Plocks

Church Lane

@ 7pm / 19:00hrs parade and bands arrive 

@ Blandford Market Place

@ 7pm / 19:00hrs Communal Carol Singing

@ 18:30 Evening events include -

Fairground

Father Christmas

Farmers market

Hog Roast

Italian Market

Market

Mulled Wine (get pissed time!)

Tombolla

and more...

@ 8:45pm / 20:46hrs Fireworks (Blandford town Centre area)

 ((The Fireworks are being set off / launched 

from scaffolding at the back of  Iceland ))

 if you live in Blandford town centre 

 remember to keep your 

 moggy or doggy or other pet/s 

 indoors during the fireworks display 

 which will be between 

 8:45pm / 20:45hrs - 9pm / 21:00hrs 

@ 9pm / 21:00hrs Blandford Yuletide Festival Finishes

@ 10pm / 22:00hrs Roads in Blandford will re-open

Fall Britannia

 Grey Britain 

The economic outlook in the UK is looking decidedly bleak, gloomy and overcast...

In  England  the triple dipping stratocumulus castellanus clouds, which envelop the skies of economic oblivion, lessening economic output and reduced national beer intake, are as dire and slate grey as the paving stones in the above photograph of Blandford Forum's town centre pavement, upon which, on Freydays is visited by a job club street hoarding.

In  Northern Ireland  the gathering flint grey cumulonimbus clouds of a near crippled construction industry, are gaining momentum and show no signs of dispersing in the near future.

In  Scotland  low level pebble grey stratus clouds of stagnation are looming overhead, along with a murky fog of impending economic contraction with no immediate signs of an upturn on the horizon.

In  Wales  many stone grey stratocumulus clouds of over 50,000 long term unemployed young people, at a fifteen year high, occupy the day and night sky with no end in sight.

Although not part of  sinking Britannia  lets not forget our friends a short journey away, towards the west, across the water, in the beautiful  Emerald Isle .

In  Ireland  1,821,932,799,321.76€ (that's one trillion, eight hundred and twenty one billion, nine hundred and thirty two million, seven hundred and ninety nine thousand, three hundred and twenty one point seventy six euros) shades of grey altocumulus debt clouds are far beyond record storm force levels and this woeful weather shows no signs of abating, on the contrary, this raging climate can only transmute into the most tempestuous of hurricanes, flavoured with a cyclone for dismal measure.

Sources - England  Northern Ireland  Scotland  Wales  Ireland  USD to Euro Converter  Clouds

All We Hear Is Radio Santa Claus

When this blog became a dot co dot uk the dubstep music that had been installed on the site, for some reason did not work but because it's Christmas time The Blandford Buzz thought it would be a great idea to add a Christmas song or two instead!

So it was a real treat to stumble upon the Radio Santa Claus free widget, which is installed towards the top end of the side column and below this blog article, for you to play at your own leisure (TBB is not getting paid to endorse this radio station).

Who'd 'ave thought there's so many Christmas songs? Jesus Is With Me (a catchy gospel number) All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, We Three Kings by Dolly Parton, The best Xmas song ever Do they know it's Christmas? Bing Crosby,Nat king Cole, Michael Buble in fact there's so many that the radio station is not at all repetitive! 

Mind you if Radio Santa Claus went dubstep it would be even better than it already is, here's wishing... (It's hoped that The Blandford Buzz will put some dubstep back on this site in the new year!).

If you click on the link below the radio station displays the track currently being played, enjoy...x

Radio Santa Claus

Xmas Tree Lights Switched On In Blandford On Friday 7th December

Left Blandford Town Cryer Jean Wells

and Blandford Town Mayor Sara Loch

The Town Mayor and Santa chillin out together

Blandford Stour Valley Band knockin out a seasonal tune or two

Tis the season to get fat tra la la la laaa la la la la...

Oh well the above gluttony is in aid of a good cause...

Yay, the Christmas tree lights are switched on 

by the Blandford Town Mayor

The blue lights add a bit of sparkle to the town Christmas tree