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Lovely Holiday
May. 25th, 2009 04:37 pmAs the rest of Europe had a holiday last Thursday (Ascension), the UK and the Church of England seemingly do not like religious holidays besides Christmas and Easter. I guess in order to appease the outraged masses, they strategically placed holidays around important Christian and Celtic holidays, naming them very uninspiredly "Mayday" = Beltane, "Spring Holiday" = Ascension or "Summer Holiday" = Lughnasadh.
Yesterday, one of my neighbours hosted a party and we were invited. It was quite nice, barbecueing, music, the works. Then I proceeded to insert my foot quite deeply into my mouth by asking: "So, whose birthday is it?"
A lady with wild red and black dread locks gave me a weird glance, gestured towards the ribbon-decorated tree and told me that it was a celebration for a relative that had passed away and was I not pagan?
Apparently the entire family is pagan and I fitted right in, for some reason my hair was good enough reason to pass for one of them.
Fortunately they didn't mind and it was a very interesting evening.
Today we decided to just laze about, plant some strawberry plants and feed the ducks that always come to visit us.
Life is good.
Yesterday, one of my neighbours hosted a party and we were invited. It was quite nice, barbecueing, music, the works. Then I proceeded to insert my foot quite deeply into my mouth by asking: "So, whose birthday is it?"
A lady with wild red and black dread locks gave me a weird glance, gestured towards the ribbon-decorated tree and told me that it was a celebration for a relative that had passed away and was I not pagan?
Apparently the entire family is pagan and I fitted right in, for some reason my hair was good enough reason to pass for one of them.
Fortunately they didn't mind and it was a very interesting evening.
Today we decided to just laze about, plant some strawberry plants and feed the ducks that always come to visit us.
Life is good.
