tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post5897997176278770724..comments2023-06-07T13:31:21.861+01:00Comments on eclectic meandering: Christmas!Andrea Smallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017280033696404459noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-71963083408237736472012-12-21T09:56:54.533+00:002012-12-21T09:56:54.533+00:00As you will no doubt know, the i before e "ru...As you will no doubt know, the i before e "rule" isn't, there being far more cases of when it does not apply that when it does...see excellent QI where SF nearly had a heart attack trying to explain it to Lee Mack.Andrea Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017280033696404459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-74673593662076663172012-12-18T10:16:58.552+00:002012-12-18T10:16:58.552+00:00To begin with I had a vision of a red-stetsoned ch...To begin with I had a vision of a red-stetsoned choir congregating around the burning withers of the Gävle goat (Ho yes! I can do the äää - if I'm going to be marked as competitive then I may (might?) as well be hung for a goat as a kid)<br /><br />Then I realised that the stetsons were in Sheffield. Which is maybe even weirder. (Ooh look an exception to the i before e rule) Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-75753835756706153162012-12-18T09:21:42.053+00:002012-12-18T09:21:42.053+00:00A beautiful Christmas experience! A beautiful Christmas experience! Andrea Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017280033696404459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-87932738374089200252012-12-17T22:27:26.486+00:002012-12-17T22:27:26.486+00:00The straw goat was mentioned in G2 today, so, havi...The straw goat was mentioned in G2 today, so, having never heard of it until encountering it in the salon, our paths crossed again as I was eating my sandwich in the Winter Gardens. (I suppose it would be more commentworthy had I been eating someone else's sandwich in the Winter Gardens)There was a choir singing and they were wearing red stetsons...nellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-3955894538371546222012-12-16T23:06:08.325+00:002012-12-16T23:06:08.325+00:00Fequine?Fequine?Andrea Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017280033696404459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-67949975257314572052012-12-16T22:44:42.869+00:002012-12-16T22:44:42.869+00:00I am speechless!! As if the huge straw goat itself...I am speechless!! As if the huge straw goat itself wasn't gobsmacking enough, there is the whole saga of it being set fire to..."The goat has since had a history of being burnt down roughly every other year" has now leapt to the top of my list of favourite sentences from Wikipedia. <br /><br />The confusion of withers and whithers must wreak its worst havoc amongst singers of quadruped-dominated English folk music. For which I am sure there is a special society. nellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-84209836817157977342012-12-14T18:17:03.658+00:002012-12-14T18:17:03.658+00:00More information about strange Swedish Yule Lore t...More information about strange Swedish Yule Lore to be found <a href="http://paganarts.deviantart.com/journal/The-Yule-Goat-Boar-and-Cat-274308570" rel="nofollow">here</a> Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-80232659321464980862012-12-14T17:59:44.875+00:002012-12-14T17:59:44.875+00:00gosh, that could lead to confusion...gosh, that could lead to confusion...Andrea Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017280033696404459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-20432558836002221792012-12-14T17:41:07.985+00:002012-12-14T17:41:07.985+00:00You can get a much smaller version made of straw i...You can get a much smaller version made of straw in Ikea....<br /><br />Hmm, I am interested to see the height of yours at its withers is 7.6m. We had a wither at yesterday's Singing for the Brain but it should really have been a whither....Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-53212333720590463332012-12-14T16:59:13.714+00:002012-12-14T16:59:13.714+00:00I know - it's incongruous, isn't it? Wikip...I know - it's incongruous, isn't it? Wikipedia article on goat is well worth checking out - it's called the Gavle goat. Should be a thing over the a.<br />xAndrea Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017280033696404459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503103728760495838.post-17065968101669964362012-12-14T16:39:27.145+00:002012-12-14T16:39:27.145+00:00Odd... I don't really think of them having Chr...Odd... I don't really think of them having Christmas on Hawaii (bit like the one we heard on a random tape in the car - Christmas on Christmas Island)... <br /><br />The Yule goat is outstanding!<br />Alison xxWords and Pictureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05672524847577136244noreply@blogger.com