Just had a thought for the midlanders and anyone willing to pop up or down to Brum. We have had for the last 10 years a huge german market in the city for around 6 weeks before christmas, it is great afternoon/evening out and now is over 200 stalls and is now the 2nd largest outside Germany,, we could meet up at the one of the wonderful beer and sausage outlets.. yummy great weissbeir, wurst und kartoffelnsalat. A saturday afternnon/evening would be really neat