Did you know......?

[veggiechicken]

Cheers Jax.

I knew a little about the Yule log from 'Tales from the green valley', which i think got renamed to be the Edwardian Farm, though I might be wrong.

I fancy making mead, as this seems wholly appropriate for christmas, but have unfortunately left it far too late.

Tales from the Green Valley was set in the 16th century in a small hidden away valley in South Wales. The Edwardian Farm was filmed in the West Country and set in the Edwardian era (would you believe?)
Some of the historians who re-enacted life in these programmes were the same people - and the woman always had to do the household drudgery in each and always looked as if she'd had a hard day!

[Florence Fennel]

On a druidy website it says: After Christmas, the holly still had an important part to play. On Hogmanay in the Scottish Highlands, boys whipped each other with its prickly boughs - for good luck! For each drop of blood drawn from this painful rite meant a year of good health and prosperity. In some p laces, Christmas holly had to be burned at Twelfth Night, or ill-luck would follow. Another old custom ruled that it should stay up until Shrove Tuesday, and yet another, that it must be kept until the following year to protect the house from Lightning. In Scotland, Candlemas Eve (February 1st) was the proper time, before the old festival of Brigid welcomed in the returning light.

Thanks my dear, how interesting!