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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: Treetotal on Wednesday 05 December 18 15:50 GMT (UK)
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I just want to report some missing Santa Hats ::) :P :P :P
Carol
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;D ;D ;D :-* :-*
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Thank you Trystan :)
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That was quick :o ....Thanks from me too Trystan :-* :-*
Carol
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Ah :-*
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HELP.
It's now the 7th, isn't it bad luck to keep decorations after the 6th??? ::)
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HELP.
It's now the 7th, isn't it bad luck to keep decorations after the 6th??? ::)
Well err .... Mr Google says "YOU MUST take your decorations down by Twelfth Night (which you will recognize by the fact that your true love will have sent you twelve whatevers doing something-or-other). Otherwise, you must leave your decorations up till Shrove Tuesday, when you take them down, burn them, and cook your pancakes over their flames."
So, errr .... err ... John, it depends ....
JMinNSW
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It's traditional to take Christmas decorations down at Epiphany (yesterday).
But in the liturgical calendar the season of Christmas actually ends at Candlemas (2nd of February) so you could argue that the Santas could remain until then ;D ;D
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To be very pedantic . .
I looked at my R.C. Missal and found that, back in the day before Vatican II
-- the Christmas Cycle has 3 parts
-- part 1 is Advent
-- part 2 is Christmastide, which ends on the first Sunday after Epiphany
-- part 3 is the season after Epiphany which ends on the 6th Sunday After the Epiphany
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It's traditional to take Christmas decorations down at Epiphany (yesterday).
Yes, Christmas decorations come down on my birthday. It was also often the day we went back to school.
It only made matters seem worse when I realised that many European countries have a national holiday on my birthday.
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Smileys are less smiley without their Santa hats.
Today is Plough Monday. We could cheer January by dressing-up and visiting houses of rich folks to solicit gifts of money or food & drink. A sort of ancient rural trick or treat. Anyone got a spare plough which needs decorating?
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Interesting! In a way it is very sad that these old traditions have disappeared :'(
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Interesting! In a way it is very sad that these old traditions have disappeared :'(
Modern ploughs probably too big and expensive to drag around a village.
The tradition had a serious side - obtaining food, drink and cash at a time of year when ag. labs were short of work.
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In actual fact probably easier to drag a plough around now, than when it was drawn by horses - there might be a lot less furrows in the local roads :D
I do remember being placed on the horse's back whilst ploughing and I was "helping" the local farmer - at least he knew where I was! I had been known to hide the bag of turnip seed down a rabbit hole, BECAUSE no-one took any notice of me (and then I couldn't remember which hole it was) :-X