Archive for the ‘Tradition’ Category
Edinburry
For those of you who stop by here with some kind of regularity you’ll perhaps know I try to make an annual trip to the Fenland market town of Whittlesey to witness a man being paraded around the streets dressed as a straw bear. So when I found details of The Burry Man, an excellent little […]
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Tags: Cafe Royal Books, David Levenson, Document Scotland, Scotland, South Queensferry, Straw Bear, Straw Bear Festival, The Burry Man, Whittlesey
“Ice Flow, Nowhere To Go”
This time last year I ventured out into the Fens to visit the Straw Bear Festival in Whittlesey – it’s a tremendous event and I can’t recommend it enough. I was due to go again this morning (with a somewhat reluctant guest) but the given that the weather had moved from incessant snow to incessant […]
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Tags: Fens, Ice Skating, Straw Bear, The Guardian, Tom Cox, Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival
Stone Me *
Fifteen minutes in the small Norfolk market town of Swaffham whilst the lady of the house visited her dental practitioner. In the horrible sickly heat of the afternoon I decided to sit down and watch the world go about it’s business (although to be honest much of the world was absent from the town and […]
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Following The Bear
No not a post on the joy (or otherwise) of Hofmeister lager but a few words on the Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival Programme, which I went to yesterday. According to the programme on the day “Many years ago it was the custom on the Tuesday following Plough Monday (always the first Monday after Twelth […]
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Tags: Clog Dancing, Ice Skating, Morris Dancing, Rapper Sword Dancing, Straw Bear, Sword Dancing, The Fens, The Hitcher, The Mighty Boosh, Whittlesey, Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival
