Christmas Customs
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While searching for a video of the traditional Boxing Day Marshfield Mummer's Play ... ...I came across the following video of a krampus...
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Ho ho ho
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Of all the myths about magic mushrooms, the one I most wanted to be true was that Father Christmas is secretly and originally a fly-agaric ...
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Time machine
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On our respective eighth birthdays my father bought me and my brother a camera each, a Kodak Instamatic (we were at that squabblesome age wh...
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Evolution of a classic
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I was excited after our recent Wod gig in North Wootton when Mike York played me some Turkish sipsi music. The sipsi is a small reedpipe, ...
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