Win a (large) cuddly dog toy

Mill Road Winter Fair takes place this Saturday - 5th December. We're running a grand "name the dog competition" — winner's prize is this cheerful-looking chap.

Winterfair results

The tombola raised £117.20 and was sold out in only two hours. Many thanks to Nicola, Sharon, Michael and everyone else who helped or bought tickets. It was perishing cold, so the helpers probably wouldn't have wanted to put in very much longer, but next year we'll try to collect enough items to keep going for at least three hours.

At the other end of Mill Road, Sue was doing a brisk trade with her veggie hot dogs, but no final total yet.

This was the last day 184 will be trading as a specialist clothing boutique and for the rest of the runup to Xmas it will be operating as a "pound stop" selling off the items that aren't good enough to keep in store until the new premises near the Grafton Centre are up and running.

Please look in for lots of excellent bargains.

The secondhand bookshop at 188 will continue and is the place to visit if you're in need of holiday reading to tide you over the Christmas break. Xmas cards are now in, and we also stock cotton "long-life" carrier bags as part of the drive to make Mill Road a plastic carrier free area.

Winter Fair 2008 on Mill Road

We'll be taking part in the Mill Road Winter Fair again this year, so look out for our tombola (outside the shop at 188 Mill Road) and book stall (location tba) if you're in the area on 6th December.

If you might be able to help with either of the stalls, please email camshop@rspcabookshop.co.uk. The book stall is usually under cover, but the tombola is in the area in front of the shop, so we'd like to have enough helpers to give people a chance to have a break and get warm.