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Episode 145 - Celebrating England’s post-Christmas winter traditions

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Plough Monday - Is There a Resurrection?

The blessing of the plough has been restored in village churches across quite a wide area of eastern england. But i haven't come across any repeat of the ploug monday festivities. Instead, there's a fair amount of winter molly dancing which is the east countis winter equivalent of morris dancing. And before these s, would a modern farmer, when would his first ploughing day be? After the christmas period, sometime in january. So plough m Monday is still a fairly good approximation. It's just that it's much faster to do it now because of mechanization,. Well, let's move on to wastling. We've talked about wastling

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