Saturday, February 1, 2020

White rabbit, White Rabbit, White Rabbit

yellow tulips for joy on a sad day


Another festival heralds this day of leaving Europe. Of course we will live through a mountain of news items in the next year as we go through the so called transition period.  All I can say is hold onto your hats, the sea will be rough.  Forget the gods of the past, you have just slipped the yoke of a thousand year Norman invasion apparently - wow! I just so hate nationalism and ignorance.  And a childish thought just found...............cribbed from the Royal Society of Literature.



 'But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.' ― A.A. Milne


Oimelc or Imbolic;  A festival day, February 1st.  It coincides with lambing time.  Why I ask are sheep giving birth in the cold months, the answer is.......... fertility of the ewes is in October/November.  Rather superseded by the saint Brigid, who with effortless charm migrated from pagan to christian.  She also may be part of the legend of the Brigantes, a Celtic tribe that dominated this part of the world centred on Yorkshire.

"Sheep are short day/long night breeders meaning they breed late summer/early fall and consequently their lambs are born in the winter and spring. Second, during the winter, the pasture that sheep normally eat is dormant. So they come down to the barn for hay and supplements presumably.

According to Ronald Hutton, the origin of 'oimelc' is sheep's milk, and therefore this rich nutritious drink would herald the start of spring for the Celtic world, though as we know planting could not begin to March.
And because after debating about whether to put the 'Four Horses of the Apocalypse' photo from the London statue on, decided a painting had much more fire. There is a certain dramatic irony about it...


Viktor Vasnetsov 1878


7 comments:

  1. All we can do is look to the future - no point in looking to the past.

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  2. Custom in wife's family:
    "A pinch and a punch for the first of the month"
    "A poke and a kick for being so quick"
    No you can't - I've already said White Rabbits"

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    1. Hope you went backwards down the stairs chanting it?

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  3. Yes, we also have had our form of Brexit where we have tossed the Constitution into a back drawer to all the monied to run the country.

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  4. Well we have had a result of course, whether bad or good we will find out. America suffers a greater evil at the moment. I watch with despair the writing down of your environment and national parks by the present government.

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