This is my response to this week’s Flashback Track Friday prompt, where we are asked:
What Christmas tradition do you wish had lasted?
I’m reminded of a post I made two years ago today.
We had a houseful but I was the first one up, and enjoying the peace and quiet. I had not long been using WordPress, had seen Fandango’s One Word prompt – you know those daily limericks I write now? – whizz past each day but never participated, so that day, with some time to kill, was a first.
There we go. There’s my answer. Frost Fairs. That’s what I wish we still had.
If you can’t be bothered reading the post, I don’t blame you. It’s Christmas. I’m bleating about how the weather was not one bit seasonal. It’s still dark outside but, at 7C (43F) out there today, if you woke up to the strains of Bing Crosby, if you’re dreaming of a white christmas… dream on!
I talk about Frost Fairs, which were fairs(!) held when the Thames up in central London froze solid. Solid enough to do things. Not just traditional winter sports like skating and sledging, for example, but coach and horse races, even.
As it was, they never happened regularly anyway, only about once every ten years, the Thames is still tidal in London.
But the Frost Fair of 1814 – suspiciously after we’d learned to pollute the atmosphere about fifty years – was the last. An early sign of how we were starting to change our climate, perhaps?
Mister Bump 
Did you read that post about when the Niagra froze. It was gripping. I think, from memory, K.Hartless posted it earlier this year.
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don’t remember that one. But posts tend to be in and out with me, I don’t retain them.
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👍
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Sign of the times? Earlier? Maybe. Irrelevant. The shame of it, that most won’t realize, let alone admit, until there is no going-back. Which, depending on sources…
Thanks.
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Movie minded me Big Chill is a movie from 1983 my first date took me to it we were late into the theatre and missed the first pivotal ten minutes of it
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And was it a big chill?
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Parts of it were! Great movie though
You would love the music
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I chose the title of my post deliberately, because of the movie, but it won’t surprised you that I never saw it. I mostly didn’t get into dating until my twenties, back then my main interest was drinking!
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Ahh !! I didn’t date much at all and some movie dates the movie was far better then the date! 😂😂
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When I did date… I always like to go to a nice restaurant. I was fortunate enough by then that I could afford to do so.
Because I knew, at least, that there would be a good meal in it!
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That’s a great plan ! 😁
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