{"id":11452,"date":"2015-12-05T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2016-01-25T17:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T22:41:16","slug":"christmas-on-the-clyde-in-lanark-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11452","title":{"rendered":"Christmas on the Clyde in Lanark, ON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2820.2126618512816!2d-76.3588215844573!3d45.02060827909831!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4cd26bf465ca1caf%3A0x3493c9c23ec77a9a!2s2144+Pine+Grove+Rd%2C+Lanark%2C+ON+K0G+1K0!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sca!4v1449354690189\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve been to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lanark,_Ontario\" target=\"_blank\">Lanark<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been close twice this year when I did shows at McDonalds Corners but never quite made it here. Christmas on the Clyde has a nice ring to it, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11449\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1836-1280x853.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11449 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1836-1280x853.jpg\" alt=\"Clyde\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1836-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1836-1280x853-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1836-1280x853-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My display<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Civitan Club isn&#8217;t right in Lanark but just on the outskirts. Lovely big hall and my table was front and centre as people came in the door. I thought that would be the perfect place and I&#8217;d sell books hand over fist. Nice thought&#8230; but it didn&#8217;t quite turn out that way.<\/p>\n<p>I had asked for a place where I could set up my easel and not affect foot traffic. The way the hall was set up, it worked perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I met lots of interesting people and sold some books. Gotta like that part of it. By the end of the day, I sold <strong>2<\/strong> copies of <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tim&#8217;s Magic Christmas<\/strong><\/span><\/em> and <strong>1<\/strong> copy of <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>The Consequences Collection<\/strong><\/em><\/span> &#8211; the woman who bought it didn&#8217;t have enough cash with her in the morning and made a point of coming back in the afternoon before the sale ended so she could snag a copy for herself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back again next year&#8230; that is, if they&#8217;ll have me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve been to Lanark. I&#8217;ve been close twice this year when I did shows at McDonalds Corners but never quite made it here. Christmas on the Clyde has a nice ring to it, don&#8217;t you think? The Civitan Club isn&#8217;t right in Lanark but just on the outskirts. Lovely big hall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas on the Clyde in Lanark, ON<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,47,372,518,366,782],"tags":[85,732],"class_list":["post-11452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4rv-publishing","category-appearances","category-king-park-press","category-middle-grade","category-the-consequences-collection","category-tims-magic-christmas","tag-author-signings","tag-book-promo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christmas on the Clyde in Lanark, ON - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was the Christmas Craft Sale in Lanark, ON billed as Christmas on the Clyde. 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