Global Holidays and Celebrations

[Purple Wyrm]

Happy Hanukkah indeed Wavewright!

[wavewright62]

Viola: showed the picture to my husband, who said: "Why not? Seasonal workers need a day job."

And Wavewright: the seashell menora with pohutekawa blossom flame is lovely! Happy Hanukkah!

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I've got 7 more like it on my phone.  Hee Hee heee

[wavewright62]

Here's a factoid from Tumblr (@official-estonia): "Estonia’s capital Tallinn is the home of the very first Christmas Tree in the world. In 1441 the guild of Tallinn’s unmarried merchants, called the Brotherhood of Blackheads, put up a Christmas Tree in the Town Hall Square. They drank, sang and danced with girls around the decorated spruce. The culmination of the party was the burning of the Christmas Tree." 

Legit?

[JoB]

Legit?

Not completely fabicated, at least.

[wavewright62]

Not completely fabicated, at least.

I knew I could count on you.  This points to the tradition of the tree inside the home coming from Germany, which is what I remember hearing.
*contemplates making pretzels to decorate my tree*
*remembers that I don't have a tree and the hanukkiah still needs cleaning out*
*mmmm homemade pretzels*

[Róisín]

And my Cornish friend just reminded me that last night was Tom Bawcock's Eve, a festivity celebrated in her home town of Mousehole in Cornwall. She lives in Adelaide these days, so had to make do with baked snapper instead of starry-gazey pie. They do a parade through Mousehole, carrying decorated hand-made lanterns and fancy fish pies, with much drinking and singing. It's in commemoration of a 16th Century fisherman who saved the village from starvation by taking his boat out despite horrendous weather and coming back with a huge catch of seven different kinds of fish, which kept the village going until the weather cleared.
Local festivals are fascinating.

[wavewright62]

And my Cornish friend just reminded me that last night was Tom Bawcock's Eve, a festivity celebrated in her home town of Mousehole in Cornwall. She lives in Adelaide these days, so had to make do with baked snapper instead of starry-gazey pie. They do a parade through Mousehole, carrying decorated hand-made lanterns and fancy fish pies, with much drinking and singing. It's in commemoration of a 16th Century fisherman who saved the village from starvation by taking his boat out despite horrendous weather and coming back with a huge catch of seven different kinds of fish, which kept the village going until the weather cleared.
Local festivals are fascinating.

'Starry-gazey pie' sounds interesting. 
*sings* Tho' shall have a fishy / on a little dishy / tho' shalt have a fishy / when the boat comes in...

[Róisín]

The pie is so named because the heads of the fishes are meant to stick up out of the pastry as if they were looking upward, which also incidentally serves to demonstrate that the pie does actually contain fish -lots of it. And I like that song. It's from much further North than Cornwall, but from a similar fishing culture.

[JoB]

*contemplates making pretzels to decorate my tree*
*remembers that I don't have a tree

According to what I just read in the LMoH thread, now you do ...
[... he said, sitting next to a large pot of unadorned anthurium standing in for the local Christmas tree]

'Starry-gazey pie' sounds interesting. 
*sings* Tho' shall have a fishy / on a little dishy / tho' shalt have a fishy / when the boat comes in...

The pie is so named because the heads of the fishes are meant to stick up out of the pastry as if they were looking upward

[ponders to add some animatronics to make a singing fish-heads-up pie]
... hey, even traditions need to be invented at some point, right?

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Gotta admit, when I read "starry-gazey" I initially thought of an even much less funny context ...

[wavewright62]

According to what I just read in the LMoH thread, now you do ...
[... he said, sitting next to a large pot of unadorned anthurium standing in for the local Christmas tree]

hahahahahahah So I do!  Tasty with a nice vinaigrette, too.

[ponders to add some animatronics to make a singing fish-heads-up pie]
... hey, even traditions need to be invented at some point, right?

I think it's been done.

[Iceea]

*sings* Tho' shall have a fishy / on a little dishy / tho' shalt have a fishy / when the boat comes in...

"A fish on a dish is that what you wish?" I think is a line from a Dr Seuss book. It's also on an early Pink Floyd album. I once quoted it to a house mate to which she replied. "no, a steak on a plate and a piece of cake"

[Dilandu]

Happy Golden Dog New Year (yeah, this old Chinese Calendar tradition still hold in Russia )!

[Róisín]

Happy St. David's day to the Welsh!

[Gwenno]

Happy St. David's day to the Welsh!

Diolch ^_^

[wavewright62]

Well into seder preparations for tonight's Passover celebration. My husband & I have already made: skimmed chicken broth to be made into soup, potato kugel, charoset (apple-raisin-walnut condiment), hard-boiled eggs, chopped liver, brownies, dairy-free cappucino 'ice cream', cranberry-orange relish, and am in progress of chopping piles of veggies for soup, tzimmes and stuffing. It's glorious.
Washing the dishes, not so much.
Wishing a Happy Pesach for those who celebrate.