Five From Five For Friar
Monday was a day in rest and recovery mode from the Tour de Mountain, see my previous post for a report on the TdM run.
Then Tuesday at Lake Ginninderra Handicap over 7km, with a recovery run, and managed to win a bottle of wine from the good sponsors who provide prizes for the barrel draw.
Ran the BBQ Stakes on Wednesday over 6km, along with a good crowd of friendly runners.
Thursday morning intended to run over to the Stromlo Forest Park cycling track, but on the way diverted to the Weston Creek Cycle track and returned to Duffy, after 7km.
Friday was a run at Customs Joggers over 5km, turning under the willow trees, with their pendant branches and leaves.
Saturday was 2 laps of Narrabundah Hill, over 5km each lap, clockwise the first lap and anti-clockwise on the second.
Whew, that is enough to call for a rest day on Sunday, and start all over again on Monday, well that's Christmas day, so if I'm running early, it will be a chance to hear the joyful sounds of Christmas as the children play with their presents.
Have a Happy Christmas and enjoy Christmas day with your families.
And Thursday evening was at the Vets track and Field, helping with the results through the photo-finish equipment.
Until Next Time
Then Tuesday at Lake Ginninderra Handicap over 7km, with a recovery run, and managed to win a bottle of wine from the good sponsors who provide prizes for the barrel draw.
Ran the BBQ Stakes on Wednesday over 6km, along with a good crowd of friendly runners.
Thursday morning intended to run over to the Stromlo Forest Park cycling track, but on the way diverted to the Weston Creek Cycle track and returned to Duffy, after 7km.
Friday was a run at Customs Joggers over 5km, turning under the willow trees, with their pendant branches and leaves.
Saturday was 2 laps of Narrabundah Hill, over 5km each lap, clockwise the first lap and anti-clockwise on the second.
Whew, that is enough to call for a rest day on Sunday, and start all over again on Monday, well that's Christmas day, so if I'm running early, it will be a chance to hear the joyful sounds of Christmas as the children play with their presents.
Have a Happy Christmas and enjoy Christmas day with your families.
And Thursday evening was at the Vets track and Field, helping with the results through the photo-finish equipment.
Until Next Time
posted by Friar at Saturday, December 23, 2006
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From World wide words.
by Michael Quinon
Yuletide
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Christmas.
My dictionaries of British origin firmly mark this as archaic or dialectal, which will come as a surprise to all the journalists,
advertisers and Christmas card scribes who have cheerily borrowed
it in recent weeks as a useful alternative name for the Christmas
season. Traditionally, it's true, it has been more a Northern
English and Scots word than a common southern English one, and you will be very unlikely to hear it casually used at the supermarket
checkout.
Yule and Yuletide don't refer only to Christmas day but to all the
traditional festive twelve days of Christmas. That goes back to a time before the Christian festival had been thought of. It derives from the Old Norse "jol", which was the name of a pagan festival at the winter solstice (and which survives in the modern Scandinavian greeting "god jul", Good Yule or Merry Christmas). The beginning of
that festival was marked with the ceremonial lighting of the Yule
clog or Yule log, a big log laid across the hearth and lit with a
piece of wood from the previous year's log.
A traditional Scots dish was Yule brose, the seasonal version of a
kind of porridge made from oats on which was poured the juices from
boiled meat. The Edinburgh Magazine reported in 1821 that it was
usual to put a ring in the communal bowl of Yule brose; the person
who got it in their spoon was taken to be the member of the company
to be first married.
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