25th April 2024 05:59 by Luna
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2024
St Mark's Day - also known as Cowslip Day as they are now come into bloom.
Their name is a polite form of 'cowslops' or 'cowpats'' from which they were believed to have engendered. Cowslip have long been used as an aid to beauty and for medicinal purposes.
"Cowslip flowers conserved in sugar, and also the stilled water thereof, are very good for them that are weak and brought low by long sickness; and it hath a singular property to comfort the heart."
c1568
"An oinment being made of cowslips takes away spots and wrinkles of the skin, sun-burning, and freckles, and is a great aid to beauty"
c1653
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24
2024
To be a little self indulgent...
I have just returned from the lakes, where we celebrated our wedding anniversary Today marks thirty years since we 'got together' as a couple. I wasn't sure it would happen, I could very easily not have been here!
2023 was absolutely our 'annus horriblis'. Health issues overshadowed all of our lives (my family that is), some more serious than others.
But... I'm still here! And today, as I count my blessings, (and prepare for an evening in my favourite Italian restaurant) I am more grateful than ever. I realise some (most?) of you couldn't give a toss, but nevertheless I would like to wish you all love, health, and happiness always.
Happy Wednesday! Xx
24th April 2024 07:25 by Luna
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2024
... the 'Church Porch Watch' ?
If you wish to know which of your friends/neighbours will die in the coming year - go to the church porch at 11:00pm on St Mark's eve and remain there for two hours. During which time the phantoms of the doomed will be seen passing into the church, and some say they will appear as at the moment of their death - suicides with a rope about their neck, the drowned as if floundering in water. Some report that the spirits of those who will recover from illness may also be seen to enter - but will return, and that those who are to marry will enter and return as couples.
You may need to repeat your vigil for three successive years before the spirits appear: but beware - for if you see your own double, or fall asleep while the ghostly procession passes, you will surely die within twelve months.
If you try the 'Church Porch Watch' but once, you may be compelled to repeat it every year until you meet yourself!!
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23
2024
The first time I ever saw mention of Criminal Records Checks for Employment Purposes was in about 2008.
Since then, it is expanded to be that one can not even get a Job Sweeping Floors without first there being a Criminal Records Check.
Has our Society gotten so Paranoid that no one will do anything without a Background Check?!
And it all base on Computer Technology which means that Big Brother Technology is Watch You.
I am starting to get Fed Up with it all!
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