The Night Before Christmas

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Merry Christmas Everyone!
I’m going to revive the famous poem, attributed to Clement Clarke Moore. This is an iconic poem, written with some old style grammar and vocabulary, that we often hear at Christmas.
The Night Before Christmas.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

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“Learning new words at The Free Dictionary is the best resolution you can make.” - Ben Franklin, probably.

We’re not trying to coerce you or anything with the above  axiomatic saying, but if you find yourself contrite about not following through on your capricious New Year’s resolutions from 2018, don’t make an egregious mistake and make the same hackneyed resolution for 2019! Instead, resolve to learn some new words!

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Burning the Clocks Festival, December, 21st

Burning the Clocks is winter solstice festival  that takes place each year in Brighton, UK.  Founded in 1993, the celebration centers round a procession of lanterns and costumes, made from  withies (willow canes) and white tissuepaper, lead by local bands with a carnival atmosphere.  The procession makes its way through Brighton city centre to the seafront where the festivities culminate in a lantern bonfire, accompanied by  fireworks. The costumes all include a clockface to represent the passing of time, although each year has a slight change of theme.

Same Sky, an arts initiative first organised the event to commemorate the CoOp's 150th Birthday. They explain: "Burning the Clocks is an antidote to the excesses of the commercial Christmas. People gather together to make paper and willow lanterns to carry through their city and burn on the beach as a token for the end of the year ... The lantern makers become part of the show as they invest the lanterns with their wishes, hopes, and fears and then pass them into the fire. Same Sky are masters at creating new urban rituals to replace those traditional festivals that were lost in the dash to be new and non superstitious." [http://www.burningtheclocks.co.uk Burning of the Clocks homepage]

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