I am guessing that none of you were aware that today was Plough Monday. Well, it is. The first Monday after Christmas (remember Christmas only officially ended on Saturday at dusk – the end of the twelfth day of Christmas.) SGL sure is educational, isn’t it? I woke up this morning at half past two! …
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January 7, 2007
It was a short night for me. Oreo only went out once yesterday and he was up bright and early this morning needing to take a walk in the park. When he is at daycare all week he doesn’t get to go to the park very much and he really loves it now when I …
January 6, 2007: The Twelfth Day of Christmas and Opentyde
Today is the beginning of Opentyde – the traditional English season of winter weddings that runs from Epiphany until Ash Wednesday. Opentyde was the only part of the winter calendar when the Catholic and Anglican churches allowed weddings to occur and at one point because quite popular for royal weddings. Today is also known as …
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January 5, 2007: Wassail Eve
Tonight is Wassail Eve – also knows as Twelfth Night, the last night of the Christmas Holiday season which traditionally began on December 6th with Saint Nicholas Day and would end tonight making it a full month of festivities. But recent American tradition has made Thanksgiving Morn (with the Christmas themed parades which are actually …
January 4, 2007: NASCAR Polos, Koolats and Guitar Heros
I heard on the weather report today that we are supposed to hit almost sixty today and on Saturday, just two days away, that we are going to be breaking the all time record by four degrees and coming dangerously close to seventy! Apparently the weather is really throwing off the golf courses in the …
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