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The GreatBigBadger Blog: Jolly be to you for it's your wassail
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Sunday, 16 January 2011. Jolly be to you for it's your wassail. This was the Stoke Gabriel Wassail, an annual event held in mid-January, in which the apple trees are blessed, in the hope of ensuring a bumper crop of fruit for fruit bowls, pies and cider - especially cider - in the coming year. Stoke Gabriel is a small village on the river Dart near Paignton in Devon, about as unspoiled as small villages get, without being preserved in aspic. When this is done, we sing:. Old apple tree we wassail thee.
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Love, Like or Hate | Things That Happened On The Way To Somewhere Else
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Things That Happened On The Way To Somewhere Else. Some good and bad things that happened sometimes by accident). Love, Like or Hate. Love Like or Hate. For Lucy and William, a long time ago. How heavy cardigans are when they lie in the rain,. And how boys stay on their half of the playground,. And how to love with all the desperation of six,. And how to be loved, and how to tell the time, and how to stain. With berries the bitten bits of your fingertips,. And gold stars, and how to hear the sound. And t...
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