Re: Ping FCS

FCS wrote:
On May 16, 12:07 pm, Blue Sow <janet.r...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
FCS wrote:

Are you aware of any traditions of sonnets
in celebration/preparation of the winter
solstice?
That might depend on what 'tradition' means in this case. Certainly such
sonnets exist. Would you be the sort of person who celebrates solstices?


Celebrates is perhaps the wrong word.

Your description of what you used to do would make it the wrong word. Your present practice is almost a dictionary definition of the word (-:


As far as the summer goes, there isn't
a person I can think of who's told me
I can't say I've lived until I've set
up a tent and dossed down in the Eavis'
back garden at a total cost of about
£500 whose opinion I consider worth
even considering considering, considering.


You seem to know a lot of wrong-headed people. That would seem an entirely unsuitable way of celebrating a summer solstice. It may be a good way of celebrating music etc., but not a solstice.

On occasion, having calculated midnight local time (not Greenwich, and not 'adjusted'), I celebrate by taking photographs of the northern sky, bearing in mind it does not become dark at that time of year.


It's fairer to say I make a bit of time
to reflect on the persistence of observable
phenomena underpinning contemporary astro-
physics in the face of 1500 or so years'
worth of infallible denial--and this was
long after the Greeks had done the math.

Which particular maths are you referring to?

Provided it's not going to affect their
business adversely I don't see why any
employer should have my shortest or my
longest day of any given year.

I am not sure that observing a natural event requires a day off from work, although one should be entitled to a number of days off per year with some flexibility in choosing the dates.


But I think "Celebrating" is stretching
it a bit.

If you think so.

It implies lots of people and
they are the last thing I can bothered
with on any of the days.


Does it? It only takes one person to celebrate an event. Two is a good number. Large numbers tend to be objectionable.


So I just find somewhere with a nice view
for a while, and maybe take advantage of
it being about the last time it's possible
to enjoy a good drinking session in winter
for at least a week or so.

That sounded like a very good way of celebrating until I got to the 'drinking session' at the end, which seems like one way of missing your own party, for want of a better phrase.

I suppose I kind of concluded the whole
idea of "celebrating" is for people who've
missed the point somewhat.


In the way you define it, I would agree. But in the proper, non-drunken-orgy meaning of the term, celebrating is what many of the people who are not at those 'parties' are probably doing.


--
Blue Sow
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