CHRISTMAS presents with a Reading twist were on offer at an unusual shopping venue.
The Museum of English Rural Life held a festive event to allow people to find some special gifts, enjoy refreshments and hear a performance from Universal Voices, a children’s community choir run by the University of Reading’s Institute of Education.
The shop has a range of Reading-themed gifts including a celebration of Huntley & Palmers biscuits, with bags, tins, mugs and tea towels.
It also has some MERL merchandise celebrating a Tweet that went viral. This was about a large ram with the legend ‘Look at this absolute unit’.
There is also a selection of cheeses included waxed truckles with flavours such as Christmas cranberry and sticky toffee.
MERL is running a series of special events in the run-up to Christmas including a Magical Lights trail which is taking place next week. All places for this have sold out.
For more details, log on to: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
