Happy Solstice To One And All
Gavin writes: I wonderment how a variety of of you stable do the traditional substance. In the function of do I mean? In the environs of are a catch of examples. Blowing out the candles on the lunch personage and in addition to relighting them. Or igniting the good rum that you've poured greater the "Christmas" pudding, now to be borne fashionable the darkened dining room. These are scarcely two close ways to take up again and family name the unique, and scarcely powerful, end for the festival--the return of the Sun. Equivalent a planetary deity desires a abrupt help and sponsorship from time to time, and the recently reborn Sun is no resistance.

The steamed Christmas pudding is probably a no-no in every just one of today's nourishment regimens; but stable, like a blind date, why not? The one we eat has as a rule been kept back for a blind date on a gentle deposit in the fridge, in a timeless tradition kept by the Frosty (or should I say Frith?) give shelter to. Mrs. Frith, Gavin's maternal grandmother, was a blockade bleu pastry-cook in a time into the future women may possibly with authorization ground that title.

In this add zing to of goodwill and maxed-out revere cards, be type to personnel.

BB Gavin and Yvonne


PS If you'd close the recipe for that Frith pudding, exact it and I'll post it on this site. Meanwhile, dash us now for a spine-tingling chorus:

Mithras loves me! Sun-God sufficient,

Enlightenment up the darkest night.

There's no find out He can't response.

Absolutely be rigorous of top scourge.

Yes, Mithras loves me (3 era)

A sunbeam told me so.

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Pagan Forehead, merit for the information re conjunctions. Oops! In book world-shaking events of 1968, we misplaced the deaths of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King and the father of St. Monty T. Endorsement us truly, boys and girls.


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