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Bêthberry · 12-31-2016, 11:57 PM

Happy Hogmanay, Downers!

At least that to me sounds a bit more Middle-earthish. Plus those Scots I'm sure could have kept up with the hobbits's taste for brew.

Pitchwife · 01-01-2017, 07:59 AM

Happy New Year everybody, however you choose to call it! In our nook of the woods it started with frost and some half-assed snowing, which is the first attempt at something resembling a proper winter I've seen so far, so I'd say it looks promising, at least in the weather department.

Encaitare · 01-02-2017, 12:16 AM

Happy New Year, everyone! Here's hoping for at least one grand moot in 2017!

Faramir Jones · 01-02-2017, 06:37 AM

Thanks for starting this lovely thread, Bêthberry! To you and all here, I hope you've been having a good Christmas, and wish you all a Happy New Year!

Encaitare, in terms of 'one grand moot' in 2017, there's Oxonmoot 2017.

At Christmas, I take out and read The Father Christmas Letters, as well as listen to 2 CDs of them being read by Derek Jacobi. Two passages came to mind this Christmas, the second which was new. The first, in Father Christmas's letter of 24th December 1935, was when he said, 'Christmas seems to come round pretty soon again: always much the same and always different'. The second, in his letter of 22nd December 1941, said, 'But at present so terribly many people have lost their homes: or have left them; half the world seems in the wrong place'. This was obviously a reference to the effects of the Second World War; but when I read that, I thought of what was happening in Syria.

12-31-2016, 11:57 PM	#1
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Happy Hogmanay, Downers! At least that to me sounds a bit more Middle-earthish. Plus those Scots I'm sure could have kept up with the hobbits's taste for brew. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

01-01-2017, 07:59 AM	#2
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	Happy New Year everybody, however you choose to call it! In our nook of the woods it started with frost and some half-assed snowing, which is the first attempt at something resembling a proper winter I've seen so far, so I'd say it looks promising, at least in the weather department. __________________ Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI

01-02-2017, 06:37 AM	#4
Faramir Jones Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lonely Isle Posts: 706	Thanks, Bêthberry! Thanks for starting this lovely thread, Bêthberry! To you and all here, I hope you've been having a good Christmas, and wish you all a Happy New Year! Encaitare, in terms of 'one grand moot' in 2017, there's Oxonmoot 2017. At Christmas, I take out and read The Father Christmas Letters, as well as listen to 2 CDs of them being read by Derek Jacobi. Two passages came to mind this Christmas, the second which was new. The first, in Father Christmas's letter of 24th December 1935, was when he said, 'Christmas seems to come round pretty soon again: always much the same and always different'. The second, in his letter of 22nd December 1941, said, 'But at present so terribly many people have lost their homes: or have left them; half the world seems in the wrong place'. This was obviously a reference to the effects of the Second World War; but when I read that, I thought of what was happening in Syria.

01-02-2017, 12:16 AM	#3
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	Happy New Year, everyone! Here's hoping for at least one grand moot in 2017!