tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post3248085593504458040..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Twelfth NightLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-68069341632915000232011-01-09T17:38:34.802+01:002011-01-09T17:38:34.802+01:00Catching up with reading... I'm amazed that yo...Catching up with reading... I'm amazed that you think you might suffer from timidity and sloth. You seem brave and enegetic to me!<br /><br />Happy New Year anyway. I love reading about your life - so different from mine and so beautifully described.Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-37346552869909659272011-01-08T00:42:27.828+01:002011-01-08T00:42:27.828+01:00FĂȘte des Rois! The sound fills the heart.FĂȘte des Rois! The sound fills the heart.Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-37942694071762009742011-01-07T22:50:37.816+01:002011-01-07T22:50:37.816+01:00Lucy, likewise, your ritual gives me cheer as I an...Lucy, likewise, your ritual gives me cheer as I anticipate taking down our decorations this weekend. The leftover fruitcake, and some port or some such thing, shared with J., will help me not feel wistful this year! It's such a long haul here in the north between January and, say, early April, when the first bulbs poke up and the tree buds are visible. So the end of Christmas is extra-difficult, even though I know by mid-January the winter is half over. Cheers and best wishes for the New Year to you; I liked reading your post about the year just past!Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829062955658284450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-73973796940002424982011-01-06T20:36:53.104+01:002011-01-06T20:36:53.104+01:00How nice to have a ritual about getting the decora...How nice to have a ritual about getting the decorations put away. I always thought of it as a sad chore. Next year I'll think again.20th Century Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11432147267959308192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-70835328317899202382011-01-06T18:53:35.723+01:002011-01-06T18:53:35.723+01:00I like putting up our fairly modest Christmas deco...I like putting up our fairly modest Christmas decorations (the majority acquired via Mrs BB's visits to Christmas markets, mainly in Germany), I enjoy the effect they create and I enjoy bundling them back into their boxes. I used to imagine that the latter was a sign of misanthropy but I now rationalise it by arguing that Christmas needs to be purged, it shouldn't linger pointlessly out of season. <br /><br />It's clear your decorations are more personal than ours but there is no hint of ambivalence in your account of tidying things away. The wine (Given by the village! The pair of you certainly are figures fixed in a landscape.) and the carols suggest the event is a mini-festival in itself. I can't pretend my hurried activities are so adorned. I Googled Loupiac, thinking it might be a Loire pudding wine but it is of course a Bordeaux. I've never tried it but I have tried one that is geographically related: Cadillac, chosen, needless to say, because of the name.<br /><br />I like jewjaws, definitely an ecumenical variant and easier to pronounce than geegaws.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-19265345719330234762011-01-06T18:39:43.205+01:002011-01-06T18:39:43.205+01:00Blesi you too, Plutarch, and did you recognise the...Blesi you too, Plutarch, and did you recognise the squirrel?Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-66669245324330029352011-01-06T18:09:05.298+01:002011-01-06T18:09:05.298+01:00I sort of recognise that fire, as though I had bee...I sort of recognise that fire, as though I had been looking into the flames.<br /><br />The word verification is blesi. So Blesi! I like your angels.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.com