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Maggi Young

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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #75 on: January 06, 2009, 06:26:24 PM »
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Or do British witches stay virtuously at home?
Göte

 This one does, mostly!!

See these links for the poem  "Tam o' Shanter" by Robert Burns.... this tells tales of Witches dancing and attacking a poor passer-by!

http://www.robertburns.org/works/308.shtml 

http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/tamoshanter.htm



 It is written in Scots, though, so it may not all be clear to you!
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #76 on: January 06, 2009, 06:32:02 PM »
Göte, I think that all the Witches in Ireland go to Dáil Éireann  (Dáil Éireann = the Irish Parliament)
 
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #77 on: January 06, 2009, 06:43:31 PM »
It was zero here last night.
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #78 on: January 06, 2009, 08:17:05 PM »
But Britain HAS no mountains, only little hills, so the witches and their Lord wouldn't find somewhere to do the appropriate dances. ;D
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #79 on: January 06, 2009, 08:33:10 PM »
It was -7 on my side of town, sorry I mean 'City'

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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #80 on: January 06, 2009, 08:42:39 PM »
-4c here at 1800 hrs, never got above -2 here all day. Most unusual for the west coast.
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #81 on: January 06, 2009, 08:44:38 PM »
Quote from: J.B.Wyllie on January 06, 2009, 08:33:10 PM
It was -7 on my side of town, sorry I mean 'City'

Jean

I was measuring at 8 a.m., so it must have turned after midnight? +3oC on the way back from Lucy's violin lesson in BofA at 8 p.m. tonight.
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #82 on: January 06, 2009, 08:45:29 PM »
We are +2.5c just now.

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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #83 on: January 06, 2009, 09:07:44 PM »
Quote from: J.B.Wyllie on January 06, 2009, 08:45:29 PM
We are +2.5c just now.  Jean   

Luxury!  We haven't had as high as that, night or day for a week
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #84 on: January 06, 2009, 09:41:54 PM »
Their Lord did find somewhere to dance on Halloween, if you read Tam o'Shanter.  When our children were young, I used to take them from Kirk Alloway to the Brig o' Doon on Halloween.  We would walk the route that Tam took and then charge across the bridge before the witch could get us.  Exciting stuff !!   Even scarier in the dark with a half gale blowing.  The pictures are of Kirk Alloway where the De'il and his hellish legions were holding a Sabbat, and the Brig' Doon where Meg lost her tail to Cutty Sark.

To those interested, there is a wonderful set of paintings by Goudie of the Tam o' Shanter tale on the website of our local gallery.

www.goudie.co.uk/gallery.html

As it is Burn's 250th anniversary on the 25 January, there are lots of associated events taking place in Scotland, although he really belongs to us locally.

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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #85 on: January 07, 2009, 09:20:38 AM »
When Burns came to Dunblane he decided he liked the place. He was staying in the Stirling Arms Hotel at the time. When he went back to pack his bags to come and live here he promptly died. :(
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #86 on: January 07, 2009, 11:17:13 AM »
Ah, but then what exactly is a witch? Technically, all practicing members of certain religions are witches (Wicca, or at least some forms of Wicca, for example), be they male or female.  In those faiths there is no such thing as a "warlock", which is a Christian creation (as is the Devil.... no such thing in Wicca and most of the "nature worshippers"... so there is no way most of witches could actually BE worshippers of the devil).  I just mention this as not all witches are bad folk..... some of us are rather nice really!  ;D

Just some musings from a rather frazzled "man in Canberra".  36'C-ish today, after similar yesterday.  While it could be a lot worse, it was still bad enough for us thank you very much.  First really hot days of the summer. :-\
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #87 on: January 07, 2009, 11:24:05 AM »
36'C+ here today, currently around 25'C at 10:30pm.  ::)
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #88 on: January 07, 2009, 11:58:20 AM »
-6c here at 9am this morning.
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Re: Weather early 2009
« Reply #89 on: January 07, 2009, 12:01:46 PM »
Quote from: Paul T on January 07, 2009, 11:17:13 AM
Ah, but then what exactly is a witch? Technically, all practicing members of certain religions are witches (Wicca, or at least some forms of Wicca, for example), be they male or female.  In those faiths there is no such thing as a "warlock", which is a Christian creation (as is the Devil.... no such thing in Wicca and most of the "nature worshippers"... so there is no way most of witches could actually BE worshippers of the devil).  I just mention this as not all witches are bad folk..... some of us are rather nice really!  ;D

Couldn't agree more, Paul. I'm anti religion generally but one of our best friends is a Wicca witch and she's lovely.
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