Holiday Traditions

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[pensivepoet]

~sigh
Ok, I'll sleep for both of us.
Shhhhhh.......Zzzzzzz.........

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[pensivepoet]

Sweet dreams

Love ya Hon
Catch you in a few

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Thanks Elle!
Pics are always great, if you have them. If not, that info helped flesh things out a bit

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Ah yes! The Yule Log does look tempting!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Ok, lots of desserts, check!
I can handle that
And now I want to make a Yule Log as well!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Are you going to make an Honest chocolate one, or a twist on one?


Yes, lots, things like stollen etc are common, maybe because so much of British Christmas was developed through Germany in Victorian period? The royal German connection.

Also, though eggnog is almost alien to many Brits, I think it developes from things like possets and this family of foods. Traditionally , traditionally I am sure these must have appeared.

Drinks wise, mulled wine is had a lot, or mulled cider in the West Country ( remember cider here is very alcoholic ) and older drinks include things like buttered rum.....very old fashioned not many will have headed of it. Probably takes and hour and forty five minutes at least of jogging to work off a buttered rum.

I said I want to make a Yule Log. Not that I had decided to do it and have a recipe picked out

Queen Victoria was so fervently copied by everyone, I'm sure you are correct about the German connection to tradition. Thank you for all of your input Elle - I was looking forward to it specifically!

 

[Cumference]

I made a nice fire in the yard tonight, to celebrate winter solstice.

And to keep it good, I lit it with a fire steel I forged from a ball bearing some time ago.

To be really good, the fire should not be made with a modern invention like a fire steel, but by rubbing.
(But I've never had much luck with friction fire)

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I am a total fire bug.

I can't have a pit fire here, unfortunately. No fireplace and no land to speak of, but I do have a chiminea that I can put to use on the occasion when I find something to burn. Unfortunately, I have nothing at this time

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Yep. Having this house with no fire some how was impossible to us. Its important to be responsible for environment, but fire IS mankind I think.

Agreed! Along with ocean wave noises, our deepest connection to our caveman self

 

[MeekMe]

I'm noticing a trend for the holidays. Not quite a tradition but I swear Mister must be testing me because every year no matter how much I prepare he still manages to throw something last minute at me. I would like to take a nap...

（ ｉ _ ｉ ）

 

[Cumference]

It worked! The sun rose today!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I'm noticing a trend for the holidays. Not quite a tradition but I swear Mister must be testing me because every year no matter how much I prepare he still manages to throw something last minute at me. I would like to take a nap...

（ ｉ _ ｉ ）

Throw something back?

It worked! The sun rose today!

Oooooohhh no you don't!
Surely it was my dancing that did it, you can't have all the credit!

 

[SeawitchSlave]

Me and Master don't have any between us, but we are in France at the moment with his parents and their tradition is the German one, to have Christmas on the 24th rather than the 25th

 

[IrisAlthea]

Tree looking christmasy and I'm sipping glögg (very sweet and spicy mulled wine type drink) and waiting for duck a l'orange to be ready.

 

[BiBunny]

*Sigh* I'm in the process of making the traditional holiday murder plans. Does that count?

 

[IrisAlthea]

*Sigh* I'm in the process of making the traditional holiday murder plans. Does that count?

Yup!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Me and Master don't have any between us, but we are in France at the moment with his parents and their tradition is the German one, to have Christmas on the 24th rather than the 25th

Sweet! Are there any traditional foods associated? When I was in Spain for Christmas, they ate cold seafood and I was horrified..

Tree looking christmasy and I'm sipping glögg (very sweet and spicy mulled wine type drink) and waiting for duck a l'orange to be ready.

That word always appeals to me. It seems onomatopoeic.

*Sigh* I'm in the process of making the traditional holiday murder plans. Does that count?

You must have a really big family if this is tradition