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Christmas Countdown #4: Lo, a Rose
Posted Dec 23, 2020
We don't have any roses blooming, unlike Sasha. We have a Christmas cactus that still has a few blooms on it.
This is one day when it was snowing, don't remember when. We still have snow lying about, and it's supposed to snow more on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Farmer Hoggett says he'll pick us up regardless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-rT1qorlg
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Christmas Countdown #3: Carol Medley
Posted Dec 22, 2020
A medley, with Christmas lights and snow to look upon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FVpEYtAnGs
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Christmas Countdown #2: The Neighbourhood Light Show
Posted Dec 21, 2020
Somebody said recently that maybe people were lighting less for Christmas this year, as Covid made it all so depressing. That doesn't seem to be the case around here. Spending more time at home has caused our neighbours to go wild with the decorating. We certainly appreciate. They liven the landscape.
Mrs Hoggett was out on a drive in the countryside and noticed that the farmhouse decorations (featured in the Post, especially next week) were visible from the high point where the local airfield is.
'How far that little candle sheds its beams,' wrote Shakespeare. 'So shines a good deed in a naughty world.'
So here are some neighbourly lights, from a walk up our street to the Nighthoover church and back, with a glimpse of Main Street.
Oh, and the music is 'Quelle est cette odeur agreable?'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPj-EJKcUGU
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Book for Sale! (The Cover's Nice)
Posted Dec 9, 2020
You know you want this.
http://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/dmitri-gheorgheni/coming-of-age-in-brookville/paperback/product-vq95wr.html?page=1&pageSize=4
'Coming of Age in Brookville' is now available as a paperback from Lulu. Just in time for a last-minute Christmas gift. Think of somebody who really needs to read about life on the Pennsylvania frontier. Excitement, adventure, really wild things. Bears and rattlensakes.
A request from the Post: if anybody cares to write a review, the book can be read online here at A88002092 You don't have to write a favourable review. You can tell us what's wrong with it: not enough zombie action, not enough romance, whatever. We promise to publish it.
But get somebody to buy it. We can use the money. All proceeds go to h2g2. Present your local library with a copy.
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Musical Christmas Countdown #1
Posted Dec 7, 2020
I guess we really should start the Christmas music, even if we can't all get together and sing for fear of spreading germs.
Here's some socially-distanced travelling music for the Magi, just to get us started.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPxGjL8Q3i8
[Note to anybody who reads this: I am very vain. This journal is about ME. I do NOT want to see links to other musical performances on my journal thread. No matter how much better you like them than mine. Go put those links in your own journal. In fact, I do not want to see links of any kind here. That includes the BBC's latest news story, Christmas items, or web sites explaining the origin of specific Christmas carols. Just listen to the music. Or not.]
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