Matt Baker and the team are in the small village of Elsdon in Northumberland, where preparations are in full swing for a big Christmas bash. Matt helps get the Bird in Bush pub decked out for the party and meets some of the locals for whom the pub is more than merely a place for a quiet drink. Steve Brown picks sloes for a festive tipple with a difference. Anita Rani turns to blacksmithing for an unusual Christmas decoration. John Craven joins foragers looking for pine needles to give their cookies a seasonal twist. Ellie Harrison heads to Wallington Hall to see some red squirrels. Tom Heap joins the choir going from door to door in a bid to combat isolation among the more elderly in the community. And Adam Henson is in Worcestershire at the biggest mistletoe market in the country.
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