Posts archive for: October, 2008
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Soccer Trials Stockport
@ Monday, Oct. 06, 2008 – 21:07:03
Soccer Trial Date 13th November 2008
Woodley Sports FC
Lambeth Grove
Woodley
Stockport
SK6 1QY
Girls 10am-12 noon Boys 1pm-4pm
To book call 0844 3571173
http://www.soccerservicesusa.co.uk -
Girls Soccer Trials
@ Monday, Oct. 06, 2008 – 20:56:45
Trial Date 13th November 2008
Woodley Sports FC
Lambeth Grove
Woodley
Stockport
SK6 1QY
Girls 10am-12 noon Boys 1pm-4pm
To book call 0844 3571173
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Well Dressing
@ Sunday, Oct. 05, 2008 – 14:33:51
WELL DRESSING...must confess never heard of it until Saturday.The ancient custom known as Well Dressing is peculiar to England, and Derbyshire and Staffordshire in particular.
The blessing of the watersupply, in the form of the well, is an ancient custom which is unique to the Peak District and the surrounding areas such as South Yorkshire and East Staffordshire. The custom had almost died out in the 1950s, but since then it has been revived with great vigour, primarily for the tourist industry.
Some sources attribute the practice to the period of the Black Death in 1348-9, when probably a third of the population of England died of the disease, but some villages such as Tissington were untouched.
Tissington Well. The local people attributed this to their clean water supply and gave thanks by 'dressing' the village wells. However, it seems very likely that the practice goes back much further than this - probably to pagan times - and the fact that many well dressings have a 'well queen' suggests echoes of ancient spring fertility rites.The practice is continued mainly in the limestone villages of the central and southern peak with a succession of different villages dressing their wells between the end of May and early September. Traditionally, Tissington is the earliest in late May, and Eyam is the last of the large festivals at the end of August. Outside the Peak District, places which 'dress' their wells include Chesterfield, Etwall (near Derby), Endon (near Stoke on Trent) and Penistone (South Yorkshire
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Be a domestic goddess with easy peesy banana bread
@ Saturday, Oct. 04, 2008 – 12:58:18
Dont ever throw out those brown bananas again! Easy peesy banana bread.
4 bananas going brown ones are much sweeter mash with 2 eggs. Add the rest and bake in 180C/350F/Gas 4 oven for 1hr..prod with a knife if its clean..its ready if not pop it back in the oven for 10-15mins.
225g/8oz plain flour
150g/5oz sugar
2 eggs
1tsp baking powder
yummy house smells good too lolwhen you get more adventurous you can add chocolate chips, walnuts or dried fruit
