L O W L A N D S - L * 17 December 2006 * Volume 02<br>======================================================================<br><br>From: <span>Sandy Fleming <<a href="mailto:sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk
</a>></span><br>Subject: <span>LL-L 'Traditions' 2006.12.10 (02) [E]<br><br></span>> From: Obiter Dictum <<a href="mailto:obiterdictum@mail.ru">obiterdictum@mail.ru</a> ><br>> Subject: LL-L 'Traditions' 2006.12.09
(03) [E]<br>> <br>> Ron het geskryf:<br>> >>Please allow me to add that on List, besides New Year's Eve<br>> >>and Hogmanay, December 31 is also known as "Sandy the <br>> >>Fleming Day," since it's your birthday and thus a great
<br>> >>occasion for your fellow listers to celebrate.<br><br>I'll be 50 =:|<br><br>> From: <a href="mailto:Clarkedavid8@AOL.COM">Clarkedavid8@AOL.COM</a><br>> Subject: Traditions<br>> <br>> The cinders of the fire would glow for days, which was great fun as
<br>> they<br>> could be used to start further fires. Halloween is a US (re-?)import<br>> into<br>> England and wasn't celebrated or noticed much when I was a child. Nor<br>> was New Year. <br><br>Halloween, including guysing, is certainly old in Scotland. I think it
<br>could really only have been exported from Scotland to America, where<br>they used pumpkins instead of turnips and "trick or treat" instead of<br>"guysing".<br><br>> From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject: Traditions<br>> <br>> Here's a question for Sandy and our other amis écotophones:<br>> <br>> Are there any Christmas songs in Scots, or has Scots been considered<br>
> to "low" for such a thing? I'm asking because I've never come across<br>> such a song.<br><br>The school records in our village (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland)<br>show that the first time the children got Christmas day off school was
<br>in 1917. It looks like the idea might have been brought back by soldiers<br>returning from WW1. Which also shows how unusual it must have been for<br>customs to travel at all before television and films.<br><br>Of course, the New Year was celebrated in Scotland long before then.
<br><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a target="_blank" href="http://scotstext.org/">http://scotstext.org/</a><br>