MOVE over Rudolph – you’ve got competition! A gang of pirates pulled Santa’s sleigh as he arrived at a garden centre on Saturday, November 30.
The festive visitor has taken up residence at Hare Hatch Sheeplands until Christmas Eve and to celebrate his arrival, the garden centre held a special opening parade.
Characters from Peter Pan, Frozen and Alice In Wonderland joined him and some of the garden centre’s animals for the event, watched by lots of happy families.
After greeting children, accepting letters and posing for photographs Father Christmas settled down in his grotto and began the welcome task of meeting excited youngsters who are keen to tell him what they’d like for Christmas.
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Helping Santa is The Rotary Club of Reading Maiden Erlegh and the grotto is open every weekend until December 20 and then every day between Monday December 21 and Thursday, December 24.
All the money raised will be donated to Rotary’s nominated charities.
Andrea Burlingham, the centre’s marketing manager, felt that the day was a huge success.
She said: “We’ve had a fantastic turnout and everyone enjoyed seeing characters from their favourite films including Olaf, Tinkerbell, Captain Hook and Santa and his elves.”