If you need a break from all that festive madness
Devizes Melting Pot
“Protection. Conservation. Restriction. Deep ecology. Give me deep technology any day. They don't scare me. "I'm damned if I'll crawl, my children's children crawl on the earth in some kind a fuckin' harmony with the environment. Yeah, till the next ice age or the next asteroid impact." (Moh Kohn, The Star Fraction)/ "This is the fight between God and the Devil. If His Grace is with God, he must join me, if he is for the Devil he must fight me. There is no third way" King Gustavus Adolphus
About Me
- Name: Moonbootica
- Location: Devizes, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
University graduate, currently working as an Information Assistant for the NHS. Interested in politics, history, sci fi etc.
Friday, December 25, 2009
George waiting to eat his salmon souffle
Labels: Christmas Day, Christmas Dinner
Our crackers and table decorations
The Moroccan Roast Lamb before being put in the oven
My brother, the chef, with the marinated and prepared leg of lamb
Labels: Christmas Day, Christmas Dinner, Moroccan Roat Lamb
Monday, December 21, 2009
Stonehenge bones may be evidence of winter solstice feasts
Sheffield University archaeologists believe enigmatic prehistoric monument was used for ritual banquets on special occasions
Some 4,500 years ago, as the solstice sun rose on Stonehenge, it is very likely that a midwinter feast would already have been roasting on the cooking fires.
Experts believe that huge midwinter feasts were held in that period at the site and a startling picture is now emerging of just how far cattle were moved for the banquet. Recent analysis of the cattle and pig bones from the era found in the area suggests the cattle used were walked hundreds of miles to be slaughtered for the solstice celebrations – from the west country or west Wales.
Professor Mike Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield and his team have just won a grant of £800,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to answer some of the riddles about the enigmatic prehistoric monument.
Labels: Stonehenge, Winter Solstice
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The tree is finally decorated
Heidi tired out after her mad half an hour
George hugging his mini Christmas cracker as he slumbers
Labels: Friday Cat Blogging, George, Heidi
Friday, December 18, 2009
Heidi and George
Heidi hugging the electric heater, as the weather has gotten colder
Labels: Friday Cat Blogging, George, Heidi
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
An amazing jive from former prima ballerina Darcey Bussell and Strictly Come Dancing's Ian Waite
Her finishes are just sheer class
Labels: Darcey Bussell, Ian Waite, Jive, Strictly Come Dancing
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Choreography by Mikhail Fokine
Music by Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird: Leanne Benjamin
Ivan Tsarevich: Jonathan Cope
The Beautiful Tsaverna: Genesia Rosato
The Immortal Kostchei: David Drew
Labels: Igor Stravinsky, Mikhail Fokine, The Firebird, The Royal Ballet
George eyeing a peacock feather
DJ Heidi
Labels: Friday Cat Blogging, George, Heidi
Friday, December 04, 2009
Heidi and George snuggle up on the zebra bed
Labels: Friday Cat Blogging, George, Heidi