I popped back into the sixteenth century on Sunday for an Elizabethan Christmas. I was rather hoping it would get me started on preparing for my own celebrations.
The infamous ‘Grape of Death’ trick had us holding our breaths for fear the jester might choke. Not nearly as scary as his hobby horse, though.
I really go to listen to the Elizabethan Christmas music, preferable to the commercial stuff we hear today.
Hautbois have some rather interesting facts about the evolution of the midwinter holiday we now know as Christmas. They made me laugh – and gave me some ideas I can use in my own writing.The Tudors ate too much, drank too much – no change there, then.
I am enjoying my retirement by writing. My favourite genres are science fiction and horror and I have have had some success with my short stories.
I began reading Ray Bradbury while still at school and became besotted with Dr Who from the first moment I watched the programme back in November 1963. Each incarnation is my favourite until the next one but I have to admit to preferring Matt Smith's version to any other.
My specialist subject on Mastermind would most likely be 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
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The infamous ‘Grape of Death’ trick had us holding our breaths for fear the jester might choke. Not nearly as scary as his hobby horse, though.
I really go to listen to the Elizabethan Christmas music, preferable to the commercial stuff we hear today.
SueJEaton 