Comments on: Will humankind ever learn?

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:59:58 +0000

Dylan – you didn’t really believe that Harvey was just another vendor of Sherry, did you ?

By: Limey

Limey — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:00:35 +0000

I am completely superstitious about some things in a way that I just don’t think Americans are. I’m English but have been in the States for a while and am always laughed at by Americans when I make them take new shoes off the bed and all that silly stuff! I blame my mum – she is always full of daft superstitious rules! Nice blog! – Limey

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:25:59 +0000

Man alive, those white rabbits are pretty damn powerful.

By: Urban Panther

Urban Panther — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:21:26 +0000

White rabbits is chanted in our household when we are sitting around a bonfire, and the smoke decides to invade your section of the circle. Chanting white rabbits makes the smoke move to another section of the circle. This only works, of course, if nobody else around the fire knows the white rabbits charm. Otherwise, the next smoked out person starts chanting, and the smoke just makes an endless journey from one person to the next.

By: Expat Mum

Expat Mum — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:42:45 +0000

We weren’t back from skiing on the 5th and my sister gave me grief for the very same thing. And to be fair to myself, the snow has melted this weekend, which meant that I could venture into the very centre, I mean center, of my front garden and whisk the wreath thing off the planter. I’m going to be worrying all year now!

By: T.Ern

T.Ern — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:08:41 +0000

I’ve always thought Twelfth Night was the 6th Jan – no wonder I’m still a tea boy…..

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:08:50 +0000

I believe I took ours down mid-January. My tree made a nice extra lamp.

By: GrahameD

GrahameD — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:04:33 +0000

Notwithstanding people leaving their decorations up way way too long, which is just asking for trouble as you so rightly point out, the one I don’t get is the people who put the tree out on the kerb first thing Boxing Day morning.
I get the impression they think the 12 days of Christmas are the 12 days running up to the 25th.
Or maybe because the shops put out Christmas stuff in September they’ve just had it up to here with good cheer by then…

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:59:23 +0000

Hey, you are SO right….my grandmother was the same about the white rabbits… and I still do it to this day!!!!

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:40:38 +0000

Esther – you can relax – in LA, those aren’t Xmas decorations, they are celebrations of whatever often-obscure something-or-other we would like to celebrate …

Remember that various Orthodoxies don’t celebrate Xmas until Jan 6th, anyway, so you have 12 days *after* that – and then the sub-Orthodoxies who still go by Julian rather than Gregorian dating, or who use a Chinese calendar, or … or … or …

It’s sorta like timezones – it’s noon somewhere on the planet if you look hard enough …

Anyway, we can’t be in a recession – the Eeeevil Booosh (TM) is no longer in office, so all is well with the world …