Tag: christmas
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tldr: bah humbug
The month of November has zipped past, and I was slightly shocked earlier today to notice Christmas cards were being displayed in receipients’ windows… and I’m struggling to find any enthusiasm at all for sending any myself this year. Christmas cards. Ok, for a moment let’s step away from the fact that Christmas is not…
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Season of goodwill
As the Sun sits ever lower in the sky, and somewhere (far away from anywhere I’m likely to be) the gods of commercialmas receive the blessings of their frantic acolytes, Yule approaches. The Yule tree is up. Outside, a far more impressive holly is full of bright red berries, suggesting a hard winter ahead, but…
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Christmas Lights (bah humbug)
We don’t like wind turbines, we scream about fracking We protest at nuclear and lobby MPs We tell everybody we’re fighting the warming Each time we email from our humming PCs And every room has a compact fluorescent And all of our heating is down two degrees But just around solstice as winter is coming We pay…
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Thought for the Week – Yule
Well, another one writ, and with a small plug for the TDN and CC result… In the pagan year there is a kind of resting space between Samhain and Yule. From honouring memories of our ancestors at Samhain, we join in Remembrance of our honoured dead, and into a world itself seemingly dying. Leaves fall,…
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Christmas lights…
Blessings of the Winter Solstice an’ all that… Why, though, is it that while we are remonstrated at daily to turn off, not to leave on standby, to reduce reuse recycle… the media are so enamoured of fools with pretty lights all over their homes? Again this evening the local news channel showed a whole…
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