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Do you also have an Advent wreath? ... and if so what does it look like ?

A very merry christmas/agnostic winter week off to all men/women/other.....
May your 2025 not see you fall foul of any woke nonsense.
May you not inadvertently mis-gender anyone you meet.
May your pronouns always be appropriate, however ridiculous......

Good luck with another year of total madness...........🥳


Is it too early......
I'm uncharacteristically full of christmas spirit this year, I'm not sure why, I'm not usually......🤷🏻‍♂️

Speaking of Winter Solstice there is a saying here for the day of Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy) December 13: "Santa Lucia, il giorno più corto che ci sia" ("Saint Lucy's Day, the shortest day."). As we know that the actual Winter Solstice is on the December 21, December 22, or December 23 it has been worrying me as to why this saying is so fixed in the local tradition. I then thought to look up sunset and sunrise times and discovered that whilst the sunrise continues to come later each day the day of Santa Lucia is one of a few days in which the sun sets earliest. After Santa Lucia the sun sets a little later each day.

Our local Celtic Bonfire, complete with a figure representing "Old Man Winter", is around the end of January, traditionally the coldest day of the year.





In Roman times this area was Gallia Cisalpina. We still have villages where people predominantly have fair or red hair and blue eyes. We even have bagpipes.