Tag: Festival

• Snow

  Some stories demand attention.   Any writer can find them – or rather, they find him, eagerly salivating little gangs that pounce each time he opens his laptop and switches on.  Headlines, oddities, issues that invite comment, or exercise a turn of phrase.  Stories that beg to be told. So here I am, staring at the…

  frederick anderson

  December 17, 2016

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  Candles, Christianity, Christmas, Feast, Festival, fire, humour, religion, Saturnalia, Snow, solstice, tree, victoria, Winterfest, Yule

• Mother’s Day – A Matter of Family Values

  In my country, we have Mothering Sunday.   That’s today. It’s the fourth Sunday in Lent, if anyone is interested in the jigsaw puzzle of the Christian calendar, and it remembers St. John of the Ladder, or St. John Climacus (Climacus – climb – ladder; gettit?  Don’t you just love Latin?).  It was once called Laetare…

  frederick anderson

  March 15, 2015

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  adult, bouquet, cards, children, church, daughter, Duty, family, Festival, flowers, frederickanderson, history, Mother’s Day, Mothering Sunday, Occasion, Refreshment Day, relatives, Rose Day, visit

• Ho-Ho-Ho!

  We are at that junction of the years when it is time to gather the strands of the family once more; to weave back together the hems that have frayed, re-kindle the flames that have guttered or died:  for those who can be with us will know our hearth will welcome them, and those who…

  frederick anderson

  December 22, 2014

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  celebration, Christmas, Festival, Frederick Anderson, Gifts, Happy, holiday, New Year, Presents, solstice, Yule