Winter brings us to the singers

[sovay]

There are honest-to-God carolers on my street. I thought they were a passing car or a radio, but they are five or six people with sheet music in hand standing on the steps at a slight diagonal across the street, appropriately next to a large conifer, singing "Ding Dong Merrily on High." I guess it is that season.

[edit] And now they are gone. I heard nothing after the last round of hosanna in excelsis and when I looked out, I couldn't see them anymore. They do not appear to have moved on to any other house; I can't hear them anywhere else on the street. If they went indoors, they sure didn't turn on the lights.

I guess it's ghost story for Christmas season, too.

Comments

In a somewhat Harrison-ian vein

[rydra_wong]

Personally, I've been seized with the desire for aggressive revival of the Mari Lwyd:

https://twitter.com/GeekLioness/status/936699555281809408

IT'S DECEMBER. CREEPY SINGING SKELETON HORSES EVERYWHERE. YOU KNOW, CHRISTMASSY.

Re: In a somewhat Harrison-ian vein

[moon_custafer]

Wales is certainly trying to revive it — the even have a flat-pack kit for building your own papier-mâché horse skull: https://resources.trac.wales/traditions/mari-lwyd/

Re: In a somewhat Harrison-ian vein

[ashlyme]

Flat-pack Mari? Why don't they sell this at Ikea???

Re: In a somewhat Harrison-ian vein

[sovay]

Why don't they sell this at Ikea???

That would be even better than those tiny meatballs.

Re: In a somewhat Harrison-ian vein

[davidgillon]

Wow, that thread went a long way after I saw the first post.

Re: In a somewhat Harrison-ian vein

[sovay]

Personally, I've been seized with the desire for aggressive revival of the Mari Lwyd

I don't believe you're alone!

(Seized at random from the internet.)

Re: In a somewhat Harrison-ian vein

[rydra_wong]

Oh, beautiful, thank you.

Re: In a somewhat Harrison-ian vein

[sovay]

Oh, beautiful, thank you.

You're welcome. I got the Mari from Susan Cooper.