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The black swan at ockham1/5/2024 This reminds me of my parents on all those Christmas mornings growing up. Isn’t that sweet? No wonder they’re Day 2. What I love most about these featured friends is they generally bond for life. But according to Wikipedia, they’re common in Great Britain and Europe. Again, turtle doves don’t hang out around my house in Central Texas. On the Second Day of Christmas, my true love gave me two turtle doves. But they’re symbols, all the same … of true love–my parents’ and God’s. The pink one reminds me of my dolly’s blanket.Īnd a blue norther (a term known as Texas speak). One brings to mind a far-off star that came to Earth when a certain Prince was born. However, what dangled in her boughs like partridges in pear trees were bright ornaments galore. Beneath her petticoats lay treasures galore: a china tea set, a dolly in a carriage, and a rocker of my own. The earliest tree in my memory wore a frock of silver icicles. Nor would I know what to do with a partridge if on Christmas Day my true love presented me one perched in a pear tree.īut I’ve set up a Christmas tree or two in 70 years of life. Pear trees don’t grow outside my back door. On the First Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree. So why not a cumulative blog beginning twelve days before the Big Day? The First Day of Christmas And at the assorted birds and strange personages considered plum presents.Īs an adult I wonder how twelve days of Christmas memories might look. Considering the antiquity of the song, it’s no wonder I scratch my head at a Christmas lasting twelve days. The only known King Pepin, father of Charlemagne, ruled France 752-768.Īs a child I wondered whose Christmas was twelve days long. The subtitle, “Sung at King Pepin’s ball,” suggests it originated in France a millennium prior. The first known print version of the song we know appeared in England in 1780 in a children’s book entitled Mirth and Mischief, which presents it as a cumulative memory-and-forfeits game. Supposedly the Twelve Days of Christmas refers to the days between Christmas and Epiphany on January 6. By Xavier Romero-Frias – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Each dish is unusual, subtle, interesting and utterly delicious.A Writer’s Twelve Days of Christmas Memories December 25 marks the first of Twelve Days of Christmas. On Thursday evening, the taster menu starts with a delicate celery and walnut tart with caramelised cream, and works its way through a course of rare local beef (from cows who reportedly drink four pints of beer a day) and a serving of beetroot cooked for four hours in beef fat and decorated with goats’ curd. Tommy conceded that, like other Michelin-starred restaurants, the prices were high, but said the cost of running the restaurant, farm and guest rooms with the help of 40-odd staff meant they could not charge less. Most of the restaurant’s guests travel there specially, with many staying in the guest rooms.īehind the picturesque building, with its tiny kitchen designed for cooking “chicken in a basket and microwave meals”, according to Tommy, are three acres of farmland, on which the majority of the ingredients for the restaurant’s dishes are grown.Ī taster menu of around 12 courses will set you back £95, which includes a £50 deposit. Oldstead is made up of a handful of cottages, and is a 15-minute drive down a single track lane.
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