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It's my works do tonight, that's what we call it, a 'do'. It's a generally accepted part of our organisational calendar that there will be a Xmas do of some sort. And it is an Xmas do, rather than Christmas, it having its own format...
Advent is a time of tradition. Nobody doubts it and we all participate in it, even if it's the more modern Christmas traditions like spending a full quarter's worth of electricity lighting the outside of your house with a plastic reindeer and the.
Topics: culture, English Traditional Music, Hannah James, kerfuffle, Lighten the Dark
Topics: culture, English Traditional Music, Hannah James, kerfuffle, Lighten the Dark
Crofty's Christmas Pudding Post - 34 days ago
Apparently it's Stir Up Sunday this weekend. This is the Sunday, I'm told, when the family gathers after church to make the family Christmas Pudding ready for December 25th's celebrations. Forgive me if I sound like all this is news to me...
When we were kids there was a family across the street from my grans with two lads about the same age as me and our kid. They were Irish and Catholic, and different. We kids didn't understand the significance of that difference though so openly and...
Topics: Black Peas, Bonfire Night, My Birthday, Parkin, Religious Persecution
Topics: Black Peas, Bonfire Night, My Birthday, Parkin, Religious Persecution
The Defence of Old England - Fiction From Crofty - 73 days ago
The Heart Of England, painted white, its entrance crowned by the Flag of St George, is what you would expect from the Northern Headquarters of England's Protectors, the self styled defenders of national culture and heritage, in the face of, according.








