Santa Claus Plans to Visit Rudyard December 19

The breakfast is free and so are the digital pictures with Santa that can be emailed to parents. I’ve even snuggled with Mrs. Claus, but we didn’t call her that around the house.

Angry grandmother Elizabeth Toft, 79, of Stoke-on-Trent, said: “I think it’s disgusting they don’t have a grotto”.

But mum-of-two Laura Gratton, 23, said: “Christmas is mostly for the kids, they’d be disappointed to not see Santa”.

There is an aspiring, young, Kiwi paleontologist in our midst who wants to get his hands on real dinosaur bones. Long after the Halloween decorations were taken down and put away, many of my neighbours were still raking leaves, doing yard work and putting up outdoor Christmas lights wearing only jeans, T-shirts and sneakers.

“Roaming Santa” will be wandering the Potteries centre every Saturday and Sunday until December 20, 10am-6pm.

New Zealand Post has so far received 64,037 physical and online letters from children, detailing their expectations come Christmas morning.

On Friday, in addition to Santa’s Workshop, the First Friday event featured rides around town on a horse-drawn “wagonette” that held 12-14 people at a time.

It’s Christmas time, which means that the current crop of ads are created to make us cry as we ponder our mortality, wonder when our partner is going to give us a new auto for Christmas, and question which products Santa Claus would endorse (spoiler: all of them!).