No snow on Christmas Eve, but a lovely snowy day on New Year's Eve.
Fortunately we can hunker down for an evening together with a nice fire and some good food.
And a cat to keep me company while I check out some blogs.Happy New Year to you all. May 2009 bring you happiness and prosperity.
OOh and I just popped back to share this wonderful new knitting website I JUST discovered. It's called twist collective and it has some amazing patterns that I will definitely be buying once I finish with my gazillion other knitting patterns (or probably before).
Cheers!
Well at least we are not girt by snow...we will have a proper New Years Day with lots of sun even if the Sydney Test does not start until Saturday.
ReplyDeleteHave a good one Snork and gang.
love
GOD
Happy New Year to you lot! Glad you've got snow. (Hobart rain on the mountain was so set in I couldn't work in the garden and was frustrated so went to the East Coast again!) mumxxx
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ReplyDeleteToday almost everyone takes the precision of our calendars for granted, unaware of the long threads spooling out from our clocks and watches backward in time, running through virtually every major revolution in human science, all linked to the measurement of time. The thread runs largely through the West, since this is the source of the world’s civic calendar, but also casts lines of varying sizes and thickness outward to China, India, Egypt, Arabia, and Mesopotamia.
Unwinding backward, it pauses at Clavious and at Bacon; at the rush of knowledge coming from Islam and the East during the Middle Ages; at bloody wars fought over dates after Rome’s collapse; and at Rome at its height, when Julius Caesar fell in love with Cleopatra, an affair that gave the west its calendar.
It moves back farther still to the Egypt of the pharaohs, Babylon, Sumer, and beyond, thousands of years before our own calendar was created, when an unknown person dressed in reindeer skins and clutching an eagle bone gazed at the sky and got an idea to use the moon to measure time.
Many different calendars have been developed over the millennia to help people organize their lives. According to a recent estimate, there are about forty calendars used in the world today, particularly for determining religious dates. Most modern countries use the Gregorian calendar for their official activities.
Westerners should keep in mind that there are indeed several calendars actively in use.
So, wishing someone a Happy New Year depends on who you’re talking to!
Baha’i
Chinese
Christian
Indian
Islamic
Jewish
Others
Ancient:
Mayan
Roman
hmmm that was interesting Kurt!
ReplyDeleteA Happy new year to you lovely George. We got back from camping to some coldish weather so I have watched a bit of the 5 day cricket with Dave but it seems every time I come in to watch someone gets out. Dave is banning me from watching with him!!! Up to Launny tomorrow to relieve Mum from the girls and stay for a week.
Rowan cutting teeth so cranky as... gotta go stop her crying!
Love to all. ps. looks like a good blog you were perusing!
Happy new year to alle of you from Norway! Love, Hilde
ReplyDeletePS! We want some of that snow.