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   Message 99,110 of 99,776   
   David Dalton to Peter Jason   
   Re: Hogmanay Blessings   
   31 Dec 20 19:00:22   
   
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   XPost: alt.religion.druid, alt.spirituality.druid, alt.traditional.witchcraft   
   XPost: uk.religion.pagan   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Dec 31, 2020, Peter Jason wrote   
   (in article):   
      
   > On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:17:56 -0330, David Dalton   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > > Since it is now December 31 in Scotland, and indeed it is also   
   > > a bit after midnight here on the Avalon peninsula of Newfoundland,   
   > > Hogmanay Blessings to any readers, partly in memory of my   
   > > maternal grandmother Mary Walker.   
   > >   
   > > Some may be interested in my thread “New Year’s checklist”   
   > > just on alt.magick where I am trying to make it a day   
   > > “when pigs fly” (although I know that the name Hogmanay   
   > > is not really related to pigs, but I like wordplay).   
   >   
   > Pigs are air-freighted, so they DO fly.   
      
   Ha, good one.   
      
   And I guess turkey is common on Christmas Day and many people   
   have ham on New Year’s Day.   
      
   And Tibb’s Eve is every December 23 here in Newfoundland. :-)   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And now the angry morning/Gives the early signs of warning/You must face   
   alone the plans you make/Decisions they will try to break" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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