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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
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, 22 December 2024

Advent 4: Some Basil for the New Year

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Of around a hundred Christmas gift-bringers I have researched over the past four years one of the more well-known is St. Basil (c.330-379) ....
Sunday, 15 December 2024

Advent 3: Christmas is a Bit of a Drag

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Modern drag has advanced little since the start of this century (if at all). Much of it is lingering in the style of the 1980s, desperately ...
Sunday, 8 December 2024

Advent 2: Christmas Werewolves Among Us

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Werewolves at Christmas? What have werewolves got to do with Christmas? Well, forget most of what you think you know, because the werewolf o...