Author: Janus

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Little Yuletide Eve

That’s today oop ‘ere: 23.12. Not sure how it started but when you think about it, it’s a smart idea. The big family event in these parts is tomorrow evening, but elsewhere that means quite often that half of the in-laws would have to wait until next year. But starting today means everybody can be fitted in every year! (I’ll leave cherished charioteers to decide if that’s necessarily a good thing!) SKÅL!

And the Yuletide Laureate is…..

Backside has been singing along merrily behind me, as we review the tasty fare served up by our cherished lyricists. While shepherds watched, Away in a manger, In dulci jubilo, Deck the halls, O tannenbaum and Ding dong merrily – they are all here, boasting their roasts and sprouting nicely. And what chucklesome lines to savour too! Continue reading “And the Yuletide Laureate is…..”

The gospel according to Matt

As old Groucho remarked, “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.” And my prejudice is now fully justified by the very idea that the word ‘marriage’ might be misused/re-interpreted/ hijacked to include seeking supernatural approval for conjoining ‘members’ of the same gender (Gerrit? Sorry, Vicar).

Matt Cartoon

Singalongabing

Oh, the weather outside is  frightful

But the fire is so delightful

And since we’ve no place to go

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

– not that we have any choice here in the Baltic Badlands ‘cos we have a snowstorm right now and are promised 10 inches today. Very pretty – not.

Oh,  a sparkler would make me better

I’d don a thick warm sweater

And write rude words and show

That I don’t much approve of the snow