GOOD KING WENCESLAS LOOKED OUT...ON THE FEAST OF FROGHILL
Froghill is the best place in the UK to spend the festive season – and that’s official. The town came first in the Christmas Rating and Approval Poll, a nationwide survey conducted by Gallup, beating bigger and more glamorous places like London and Cleethorpes.
And here are ten CRAP reasons why we’re No.1 in the seasonal situation stakes:
1. Legend has it that Saint Nicholas was born in a caravan in the Froghill area.
2. Froghill has more robins per square mile than anywhere else in Britain.
3. The spherical Christmas pudding was invented in Withering in AD 622.
4. Froghill is popular with elves as a winter holiday destination.
5. The intersection of several ley lines at the base of Traubert’s Hill means that turkeys naturally congregate there.
6. Froghill is the only place in the mainland UK where venison poaching is legal.
7. Bing Crosby’s original working title for White Christmas was Oh, My Gosh, How I Wish I Was In Froghill Now That It’s Christmas Time.
8. Due to local atmospheric conditions, Christmas crackers make more of a bang in Froghill than they do anywhere else.
9. Due to the disproportionately high percentage of senior citizens living here, our Christmas stockings are made of thicker, more retentive material and so can hold more.
10. The 1972 Queen’s Christmas speech was filmed in the saloon bar of the Nag’s Head in Froghill High Street just after Her Majesty had got a round in.
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20/12/06 @ 09:43