I'm reading about old Christmas traditions. Pre-Victorian Christmas seems like it was very drunk.
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Hil R. - Dec 24, 2008 2:50:10 pm PST #5695 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
NoiseDesign - Dec 24, 2008 2:58:42 pm PST #5696 of 10000
Our wings are not tired
Sounds like the pre-victorians had it right.
Hil R. - Dec 24, 2008 3:06:25 pm PST #5697 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think that my favorite (possibly because it's the only one I've read about tonight that I've never heard of before) is that people would go out to the apple orchards, drink cider, and sing songs to the trees so that the apple harvest would be good the next year.
Laga - Dec 24, 2008 4:12:17 pm PST #5698 of 10000
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D got home, I told him about the washer. He checked it- it seems to be working fine.
omnis_audis - Dec 24, 2008 5:11:43 pm PST #5699 of 10000
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meara - Dec 24, 2008 5:53:32 pm PST #5700 of 10000
go out to the apple orchards, drink cider, and sing songs to the trees so that the apple harvest would be good the next year.
This sounds rather chilly, at Christmas. Unless it was HOT cider. Hot alcoholic cider? Hmm. Maybe hot cider with rum? I dunno about this plan...
Hil R. - Dec 24, 2008 6:02:39 pm PST #5701 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The cider was definitely alcoholic. I'm not sure about hot, but that seems reasonable.
Also, I found an account from Colonial Massachusetts of some young men who went to the home of a man known to make pear cider and demanded some. When he wouldn't give them any, then just sat themselves down and stayed there, singing songs. When he still wouldn't give him any, they beat up his son. And this was reported as if it were just a slightly more extreme example of what could be expected every Christmas. Apparently Nantucket was known for its especially raucous Christmas celebrations -- being way out on the island, they weren't as much under the control of the religious authorities who'd banned Christmas celebrations.
sj - Dec 24, 2008 8:11:02 pm PST #5702 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We exchanged gifts with Mom and Stepdad tonight since we won't see them tomorrow, and then came home and exchanged gifts with each other since it was after midnight. I'm so spoiled. Now sleep. Tomorrow more wrapping and baking.
Laura - Dec 24, 2008 8:15:10 pm PST #5703 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Merry Christmas to all the Christmasy peeps. Home from a very pleasant Christmas eve with my family in Bonita Springs. Unwinding from the trip home with a glass of wine. Need to think about sleeping real soon.
Drinking cider and singing to trees sounds fun to me. We sang a lot on the 2-1/2 hour trip home. Mostly Christmas songs along with the radio, but there were a few detours to Rap depending on who ruled the radio.
sj - Dec 24, 2008 8:26:52 pm PST #5704 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
One more funny thing to add. TCG gave me the same pair of panties for Christmas that he gave me for my birthday. A pair that is very much my style, and, in fact, I already had. I can't decide whether or not to tell him. Maybe I should wait to see if I get another pair for our anniversary in a few days.