It's that time again when the solstice will be soon upon us.

While snow the window-panes bedim,
The fire curls up a sunny charm,
Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim,
The flowering ale is set to warm;
Mirth, full of joy as summer bees,
Sits there, its pleasures to impart,
And children, 'tween their parent's knees,
Sing scraps of carols o'er by heart.

To all that have entered the hallowed doors of my various emporiums I wish you all a very Merry Christmas.

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I know that beating egg whites poses no problem....I know from experience that a swift wrist action can make almost anything stand up stiffly.

A Very Merry Christmas to you also, Mrs. Miggins.

Happy winter solstice to you too, Keith.

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Summer solstice here .... and the dogs a bitch

Yeah, we should just celebrate the solstice. Since it is summer here after all! Happy Pagan Ritual BOINCERS!

Live long and BOINC!

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Paul
(S@H1 8888)
And proud of it!

Happy Winter Solstice!!

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LETS BEGIN IN 2010

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

One of my better recipes.

Hey up like! Does it come with mushy peas and chips?

No gravy?

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I know that beating egg whites poses no problem....I know from experience that a swift wrist action can make almost anything stand up stiffly.

A few days on either side of the solstice (summer or winter) the are almost exactly equal in length. It appears that the effects of the seasons follow by about one month the declination of the Sun. I suppose that's why the solstice is at the BEGINNING of the season rather than at the middle of it. But that provides a little too much correction. That's why summer and winter don't correspond to the hottest and coldest three months of the year.

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Yule, is when the dark half of the year relinquishes to the light half. Starting the next morning at sunrise, the sun climbs just a little higher and stays a little longer in the sky each day.

Known as Solstice Night, or the longest night of the year, much celebration was to be had as the ancestors awaited the rebirth of the Oak King, the Sun King, the Giver of Life that warmed the frozen Earth and made her to bear forth from seeds protected through the fall and winter in her womb.

Bonfires were lit in the fields, and crops and trees were "wassailed" with toasts of spiced cider.

So wassailing we all go.

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I know that beating egg whites poses no problem....I know from experience that a swift wrist action can make almost anything stand up stiffly.

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LETS BEGIN IN 2010