Bank Holiday?

Going to play a lot of vinyl albums.

Eat some roast dinners and some full English.

All things i have not been able to do for weeks.

Oh and get a new steel blind for my kitchen.

Stu.

Hi Stu

Hope you are in good health. Have you had a new kitchen fitted recently & do you cook? If so haveyou hand a hand in the design and choose cooker ect .

Graham

Graham,

Yes i designed it.

New kitchen ring main boxes switches and sockets

Kept my stainless steel range cooker,hood and splash back though.

almost three weeks of dust mess and upheaval .

Worth it though now its all done.

Also had a new bath floor and tiles put in.

Two new baths because the tiler chipped the first one 

I love cooking.

I will be watching the FA Cup final also.

Have a good weekend.

Stu.

So what does the holiday celebrate? Here in the colonies we have to work through.

It's The May Day Fertility Dance!

Great fun, we village folk take turns to dance naked around the maypole.

But it's not very warm out...

so we may leave our clothes on this year

1st May - as in my part of the world - Oxfurdshy'r

Calibration of the arrival of spring, old pagan festival.  In Oxford City we have traditional madrigals sung from the top of Magdelen Tower at dawn & drunken yoofs jumping off Magdelen bridge. Around the villages we have maypole & Morris dancing, beer & good time organised events, maybe a pig roast.  

1st May - as in Socialism  

The rising of the proletariat

The mad grocers daughter allowed the socialist 1st May it to be an official holiday but on the condition is was on the Monday after 1st May 

I can bring my LPG patio heater over if that helps Debs 

Acually, no it's not, the "Spring Festival" is Eostra (or Spring Equinox) on the 21st March

1st May is Beltane

Beltane is a celebration of fertility and also of love, symbolising the union of the Mother Goddess and the Sun God which will bring forth the fruits of the year's harvest.

Many present-day Mayday traditions, such as maypole dancing, have Pagan roots. The maypole itself is, of course, a fetility symbol.

Beltane is the one pagan fesival not wholeheartedly adopted by Christianity, because its connotations of ferility, reproduction, with all sorts of anky-panky goings on which are considered improper.

Debs

I'm obliged Debs,  I was just trying to keep it simple as its a lot more complicated & regional than you have written.

Beltane (fire festival) is a Gaelic festival, but the May-Day links are maybe a bit lost in time & distance in these parts. The dates of 1st of spring (& summer) are all over the place as are the various pagan & christian festivals. Most parts of Europe spring & 1st May is Walpurgis,  older still you find 1st February as first day of spring & 1st May the first day of summer. 

The Christian - as in religious - festival in these parts is called Roodmans & is celebrated at midnight. This then gets followed by the madragals on Magdelen Tower.

Traditionally the Christians don't do May-Day as its all to do with more earthy goin's on.

Yesterday Sarah said to me '(it)Spank holiday next Monday'.*

I replied 'Spank Holiday, that sounds like fun'.

* Just possible she may have over emphasised the S and mumbled the 'it' and B.

In celebration of the BH, I have been sleeping quite a lot. Burning in a new pair of cans is quite hard work .

And, off again....Zzzzzz.

Ripped a few hundred more CD's. Checked the artwork on those already ripped. Archiving most into boxes ready for the attic.

Backed up from NAS to PC too. Just need an off site back up too for belt, braces and spare belt!

ps Keeping metadata straight is a pain. Anyone know a good way of editing? Including then sticking in a sensible folder structure, especially for calssical.

New cans, Bank Holiday treat ? 

Sort of

It's my birthday, so a few new cd's and a Linn 24/96 download for me as a treat.  Rubbish weather gives me an excuse to listen to music rather than do gardenng!

Richard

Let the wife choose the music this weekend.

She's been happy as a kid with a new toy playing all her old seventy's 7" singles and believe me there's been some good and some realy bad stuff in there,

Jealous! I used to spend a lot of time in Oslo on business, it's a very nice (if expensive) city.

Busy weekend.

15 training flights totalling just over 12 hours flight time, covering most of south west UK from Oxford to the south coast and west to Swansea. The whole area is picturesque.

Tuesday and Wednesday off, so possibly some golf and country walks with Mrs D

Cheers

Don

If I'd known I would have waved.

You guys all work in banks?

No, only the ones with 500 series systems

We had great bank holiday weather yesterday - driving from Bicester to north Oxford I hit a hail storm that made me fear for the well being of my paintwork. I snuk into a service station & hid under the canopy  & had a fill up. 

Looking out at the storm I spotted a cloud circulation & a funnel dropping towards the ground - yup it was a tornado.   It lasted a few minutes & disapeared into the mass of cloud & the rain haze.

Today the www is full of it, trees down & minor building damage,  seems it tracked across wilts, oxford & bucks.     This is one of the best pics (not mine I hasten to add)

What odds on snow for the queens 60th bash in June

The Green Man celebrations in Whitstable with various Morris groups. Lots of fun! Yep Beltane gets absorbed into different celebrations. The sun even came out!