Our traditional visit to celebrate the holiday.
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We start off in the pub... Sadly, after we've been inside for a bit, we have to come out....
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And set off on our travels......

First stop. And Alan is a bit vexed that the last horse that came this way didn't use its poop scoop.
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On again..... Just the sight to greet a hung-over villager as he opens his curtains for the first time that day. Or she, of course.

Mind you, people would be well advised to stay inside, with Father Christmas making this sort of racket...
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and Chris giving his all on the drum,.

and a demand for money... (No menaces, of course).
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But if you don't cough up you get a fierce glare.

Anyway. The Turkish Knight is soon on the rampage, looking for victims and generally being a little bit over the top.
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But only a little bit over the top....

as you can see. He's actually a very mild and peacable fellow, once you get to know him. Or so his therapist says.
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St George appears.... to put a stop to all this non-English braggadocio, and also excessive use of long foreign words.

Death on the blacktop. The Doctor has to perform emergency surgery.
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And also.... a somewhat drastic intestinal exploration

A cure for all ills... including gout within and gout without, is resorted to and the Turkish Knight is soon well enough to....
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dance with Susie in .... the Broom Dance....

but the cure for all ills... including gout within and gout without, is never far away.
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Not to be outdone, though.... the dancers show how to do things properly as well

in Winterbourne Down Stick... just look at those lines, Mavis.
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