When the stars and the elements shall tremble with glee.

[resonant]

We broke up Christmas today, which I always do with mixed feelings: sorry to see it go, but happy to see normal life again. One of the things holidays are good for is making you appreciate things that aren't holidays. The yellow and orange placemats! The kidlet's stained glass of two cats, which has to come down to make room for the angel that hangs in the window! Enough room to walk behind the couch, now that the tree is down!

We used to actually celebrate Twelfth Night -- we even wassailed the strawberry patch once, because I had discovered this marvelous toast for wassailing an apple tree, and we didn't have an apple tree -- but the kidlet's birthday is on Monday, so it got to be too many celebrations all at once for good introverts like us. Now we just play the Christmas music one more time and take everything down.

Obviously I didn't manage to finish a story for challenge amnesty, but giglet has challenged me to clean out my WIP folder in January by writing 100 words of something or other every day, so possibly there will be actual, you know, fiction on this journal again at some point.

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[reginagiraffe]

so possibly there will be actual, you know, fiction on this journal again at some point.

*looks foward to that with great anticipation*

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

yay! fiction from you is always something to look forward to.

we always close down our Christmas celebrations on the Epiphany as well...

when I was a small child, we'd get gifts at Christmas from Santa, but small gifts at the Epiphany from the Wise Men as well....

[atropos-lee.livejournal.com]

You've got plenty of time to wassail. In my dad's village (Hereford cider country) they wassail on *old* 12th Night, Jan 17 - the date it would have fallen if we hadn't swapped from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar. They'll be mulled Cider, toast, shotguns, morris dancing, the works.

We did once try it on new 12th night, but the crop was abysmal that year, and it's stayed the 17th ever since.

[giglet.livejournal.com]

We finish celebrating (opening presents, eating out, etc.) on Epiphany. Clean up will take longer. In fact, it might wait until February 2. We're considering celebrating Imbolc this year (not that I'm Wiccan, but just like my Church, I'm not above co-opting a good holiday). We could use a day that emphasizes caring for one's hearth and repairing one's tools. If we get to have potluck and mulled wine at the same time we're mending and sharpening the knives, hey! Not complaining, here.

so possibly there will be actual, you know, fiction on this journal again

Yes, yes! Please!

[giglet.livejournal.com]

they wassail on *old* 12th Night, Jan 17

Ooh, that's great! I hadn't heard of that, before. (And how is the Stone Caravan coming?)

[pun.livejournal.com]

giglet has challenged me to clean out my WIP folder in January by writing 100 words of something or other every day,

I've sort of been contemplating making a similar challenge to myself.

I look forward to fic from you with great glee!

[atropos-lee.livejournal.com]

And how is the Stone Caravan coming

Progress stalled by flu-eyness. I'm in bed back in the city, enjoying the excess goodness that is Torchwood!