You may have noticed there was something of a blank here at Lucid Ephemera for a few weeks while I went off and did festive things and had a holiday. More details on Italians in puffy jackets and wild boar salami follow in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I hope all of you [...]
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2010 and 2011, thank you and hello
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A Parsnip in a Pear Tree
Posted in Christmas, England, singing on December 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I have recently come out in a rash of Christmas carols, and have been humming, singing and listening to festive songs for weeks. This commenced at 7am on the first of December when the cheerful folk at the gym played carols at us and I puffed away to a boppy version of All I Want [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to Snow
Posted in Christmas, expat, winter on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The snow arrived without warning. One minute the sky looked ominous and the next we seemed to be in the middle of a snow cone, with snowflakes flying in every direction. I amused my colleagues by racing to the window to watch, entranced, as the snow flitted down – and across, and around, and up [...]
Tights and Budgets
Posted in Christmas on December 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ballet, I’m told, is a set of highly unnatural activities that are both painful to perform and bad for you in the long term. Not that ballet has ever threatened my health; although I did take lessons for a few years as a child, I was awful at it. Not that I had much of [...]
Crisp and Christmassy
Posted in Christmas, England, expat on December 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I knew winter had arrived when I had to stop and scrape more ice from my windscreen one morning earlier in the week. I had already scraped off what I mistakenly thought was sufficient viewing space, but had in fact not removed enough of the crust of ice that encased my car. It was eerie [...]
Darth Vader and the Nativity
Posted in Christmas on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d never been to Yorkshire until a delightful wedding took me up north last weekend. The verdict: damp, quaint and yet contemporary. Yorkshire still wore the last vestiges of autumn colour, the bright leaves lingering in sheltered spots. The grim leaflessness of winter was still being kept at bay by the unseasonal mildness that we’ve [...]
