It isn't just me who is slightly worried to see here, in close proximity, a pair of knickers, some boiled sweets, and what appear to be a pair of man's tracksuit trousers?
Because it was traditionally impressive. And I like the slightly darker cloud in the middle of the picture. Almost as if - ha ha ha - we might be going to have rain.
They're taking down the Christmas lights. They are also digging up the town square, but whether these two events are connected is not for me to say. The same people are carrying out both tasks, that's as far as I'll go.
Sorry I've been away for a bit. But we now have the internet in our house in Spain. Twenty-first century inside, about 1835 outside. Here is a last photo from Iceland - the splodge of green in the sky to the right is, I think, the Northern Lights.