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Monday, 6 January 2014

Winterspanks Winner, Women's Christmas and other ramblings



First of all I would like to congratulate Brittany Wentland on winning the Winterspanks prize on my blog. Brittany wins her choice of Mastering Maeve or My Naughty Little Secret along with a $5.00 gift voucher for her choice of Blushing Books or Amazon.

Secondly, happy Women's Christmas, ladies!

Here in Ireland, today is Nollag na mBean, Women's christmas, and as a reward for all of the effort women put into catering the theory is that women should not cook today. So go to it, see can you start this tradition in your part of the world.

Sometimes, depending on what day it falls on, a group of my female friends have gone out to dinner on the 6th of January and had our own post Christmas Christmas party, which has been fun, but in more recent years, since the recession kicked in this tradition has fallen by the way side as most people are stoney broke in the wake of Christmas. Maybe next year or the year after, if the green shoots of recovery continue, we might get to reawaken this tradition.

Today is also known as Nollag Bheag, Little Christmas, and was the "old Christmas day," or the day Christmas was celebrated under the Julian Calendar. It's the feast of the Epiphany, the day the three wise kings visited the baby Jesus. It's also the 12th day of Christmas, and it's reputedly bad luck to leave our Christmas tree up beyond today so I'm off now, to un-decorate, before the fairies or bad spirits come and get me. Happy Women's Christmas, ladies and Little Christmas, gentlemen.



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8 comments:

  1. Brittany Wendtland6 January 2014 at 18:30

    Thanks a bunch!!! :)

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    1. Unknown6 January 2014 at 23:23

      You're so welcome, Brittany. Thanks for playing.

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  2. Joelle Casteel6 January 2014 at 21:38

    thanks for the education along with announcing your winner :)

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    1. Unknown6 January 2014 at 23:25

      Thanks Joelle, you know how hard I find it to resist my soapbox on promoting Irish traditions, or indeed moaning about things I don't like here on the blog. :D

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  3. Unknown6 January 2014 at 23:00

    Happy Women's Christmas to you, too, Tara! I hope your tradition can be revived by this time next year!

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    1. Unknown6 January 2014 at 23:26

      Thanks Barbara, next year I'll just have to reintroduce it, even if its only pub grub in the local, just to make sure we don't lose the privelege :D

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  4. Penelope6 January 2014 at 23:27

    As Joelle says, thanks for the interesting info, Tara! And thanks for such a fun and naughty Winter Spanks post. Happy Women's Christmas <3

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    1. Unknown6 January 2014 at 23:36

      Happy women's Christmas to you too, Penelope. And thank you. <3

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