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Sunday, 21 December 2025

Advent 4: Witches, Burning Effigies, Sex and Peaches

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After three Sundays of Christmas trees and decorations let’s skip to the other end of the Twelve Days of Christmas and take a trip to Italy....
Sunday, 14 December 2025

Advent 3: Glittering Trees

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One of the more unusual Christmas decorations that has become more prominent in the UK in recent decades is the Christmas spider. Many peopl...
Sunday, 7 December 2025

Advent 2: A Forest You Can Wear

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We return to Christmas trees this week, but not the ones you can decorate, but ones that decorate you. There’s a big trend in the UK of wear...
Sunday, 30 November 2025

Advent 1: A Seasonal Forest

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This year’s 4-part Advent series covers several topics – Christmas decorations, music and literature. Let’s start by decorating the Christma...
Sunday, 2 November 2025

Honouring The Dead

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Here’s something different to my usual Hallowe’en article. Just for a change, here’s my take on Hallowe’en and how today, All Soul’s Day, is...
Wednesday, 8 October 2025

80 Gays Around the World: Part 7) Death and Democracy

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Last Time on “80 Gays”: 19) Adonis , although he had several male lovers, is most associated with 20) Aphrodite , a deity famous for her bea...
Friday, 19 September 2025

Extraordinary Life: Robert Culliford, Pirate Captain

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Shiver mi timbers! It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! A couple of years ago I wrote about the special relationships pirates had which could have ...