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1st August 2018
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My local Arden centre is clearing stocks, announcing Xmas goods staring early October....
Re: 1st August 2018
Just another day and 1st day of a new Cricket Test series against India.
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Re: 1st August 2018
I always remember a super episode of Inspector Morse - The Day of the Devil - on August 1. Lammas Day.
A black mass is celebrated in parody of the real thing.
Apparently Lammas Day is an old Anglo-Saxon festival. Typically a loaf of bread made from the new harvest was blessed in church.
In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it is referred to regularly, it is called "the feast of first fruits". The blessing of first fruits was performed annually in both the Eastern and Western Churches on the first or the sixth of August (the latter being the feast of the Transfiguration of Christ).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas
A black mass is celebrated in parody of the real thing.
Apparently Lammas Day is an old Anglo-Saxon festival. Typically a loaf of bread made from the new harvest was blessed in church.
In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it is referred to regularly, it is called "the feast of first fruits". The blessing of first fruits was performed annually in both the Eastern and Western Churches on the first or the sixth of August (the latter being the feast of the Transfiguration of Christ).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas
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kingfisher
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Re: 1st August 2018
OhSusana- I like to hear of old traditions which have come down over the centuries.
I don’t suppose they will arise from the present time, although there will certainly be one which will be celebrated throughout the length and breadth of the kingdom on every March 29th.
That day will be a National Holiday. There will be dancing all day on the village greens, with copious amounts of English ale [made with Fuggles hops}, consumed- or fine English wines- along with all the delicious traditional cheeses and a roast ox of course.
In the evening bonfires will be lit, and an effigy of Guy Fawkoffstat will be incinerated, to wild celebration.
I hope!
I don’t suppose they will arise from the present time, although there will certainly be one which will be celebrated throughout the length and breadth of the kingdom on every March 29th.
That day will be a National Holiday. There will be dancing all day on the village greens, with copious amounts of English ale [made with Fuggles hops}, consumed- or fine English wines- along with all the delicious traditional cheeses and a roast ox of course.
In the evening bonfires will be lit, and an effigy of Guy Fawkoffstat will be incinerated, to wild celebration.
I hope!
