Same to you as well, may your #Yule be blessed, peaceful and joyous. It's gonna be a busy one here, with a morning service (the one I play on #SleighRide for) and an evening service for which I'm playing #HandChimes. First year I'm actually making it to the intergenerational pageant service in quite some time. I think I've maybe made it once or twice over the 11 years I've been here.
Good Yule to my #Pagan brothers and sisters! May gods keep you from evil and dangers and lead you to the best probability of the future. #Yule #Solstice
Many of the locations of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' can still be seen today. Scrooge's counting house is thought to be in Newman's Court, in the City of London. "The ancient tower of a church" is described, whose "gruff old bell was always slyly peeping down at Scrooge out of a #gothic window." That church has been identified as St Michael's Cornhill, which looms over Newman's Court. In addition, Bob Cratchit heads home via nearby Cornhill, where he "went down a slide" on the ice "at the end of a line of boys, twenty times, in honour of it being Christmas Eve." Scrooge's "usual melancholy tavern" where he takes his "melancholy dinner" is thought to be Simpson's Tavern in nearby Ball Court, which has been trading since 1757. The door knocker which turns into the ghostly head of Jacob Marley was apparently inspired by one in Craven Street, near Charing Cross, where Dickens worked as a boy in a shoe-blacking factory. #Christmas #literature #history #folklore #Yule #books #London
