Winter Blogging

 At the beginning of January I wrote about Just-stay-in- January which is my version of 'hibernating'  and had a list of things to do to get through a difficult month. It's not always easy to find things to write about in January so I'd also planned to write some blog posts with words from the book - A Winter Dictionary  - that I bought last summer from abebooks after seeing it mentioned on Mary's blog . (Apologies to Mary for stealing book and blog post ideas!) 

Mary has already written about Hibernaculum.............. a winter refuge, originally for Roman Soldiers.

This is the photo I took of the sign that introduced me to the word Hibernaculum back in 2018. It's at the NT property Ickworth House near Bury St Edmunds.

But we're now halfway through January and so far I've only mentioned gramshoch  which is a word for the clouds that foretell snow.

So here's another word................... brumation which is wintertime sluggishness- a state of torpor. (coming from the Latin bruma, 'winter' and used for animals that don't  hibernate, but are semi- dormant)

That's me on dark mornings when I don't want to get up!

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Pantomime

Last Saturday I went to Suffolk's  oldest surviving, purpose built cinema. It's in Leiston, near the Suffolk coast and has been going since 1914. 

The dance group, where 9 year old EGD has been learning ballet since she was 3, were doing a little bit of dancing in Leiston's pantomime. The guy who is Leiston's  Mr Entertainment wrote the panto - a version of Mother Goose - and starred as The Dame. He's been managing the cinema since 1994 and also does magic shows and organises all sorts of other events. He also works on a small local radio station and YD said he's just started being the Crossing Control 'Lollipop' Man at the  primary school road crossing. They've just reinstated someone there where the road is now crazy busy due to the building of Sizewell C Power Station.

Leiston would be lost without him!

 

It's been a long time since I'd been to a Panto - I'd rather go to a local one like this than the big city ones with some celebrity. Actually Wayne is a celebrity - for Leiston!

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Abandoned x 3

 Last Friday when it rained hard all day, would have been perfect for getting on with the any of the things  started during the week.........reading, cross stitching or the jigsaw puzzle.

But the cross stitch I'd started - a small bookmark kit that had been hanging around for years  - turned out to have some really odd colours that were all similar and I didn't like them - I gave up and found the threads and Aida needed for doing  a little picture I've done umpteen times before as it makes a nice little card plus I realised I only have small two-fold aperture cards left now anyway. So can't do anything bigger without buying more card blanks.

I tried to do some of the outer edge of the jigsaw puzzle but the sky edge was impossible, there seemed to be too many pieces. So gave up on that too. Now I don't even fancy doing either of the other jigsaws found during the summer. I think I'll get my scrap book things out on the table instead.

And finally I started the British Library Crime Classic Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand. I've read several of her others that BLCC have published previously and they've all been good. But this one was just silly. It turns out it was the first book she wrote and had published so she must have improved later.

And after the huge pile of books from the library van it's not as if I'm short of good reading.

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