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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 24 January 2008 - Volume 07
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Theo Homan</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:theohoman@yahoo.com">theohoman@yahoo.com</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.24 (04) [E]<br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
<br>> From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject: Traditions<br>[...]<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">> By the way, I keep wondering why in Old English and
<br>> Old German May is<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> referred to by "three milks":[...]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
<br>> Might it be because three types of farm animals have<br>> had their young by<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> then? [..]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Or: might it be that in May the cows gave three times</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">more milk than in winter?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Btw: When the cows came out in the green again after</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the winter, the butter that had been pale-white during
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the winter, all of a sudden became yellow. The farmers</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">thought it was because of all those little yellow</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">flowers the cows were eating now in the meadows, and
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">they named these flowers: boterbloemen / buttercups.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[Well, you know of course it is because of the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">carotene in the grass.]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://vr.gr/" target="_blank">vr.gr</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">Theo Homan<br><br>----------<br></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">
heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.24 (04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">
<br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From Heather Rendall</span>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ron wrote<br>Subject: Traditions<br><br>Thanks bunches, Theo.<br><br>By the way, I keep wondering why in Old English and Old German May is referred to by "three milks":
<br><br><strong><font size="2">Because grass was so lush that cows had to be milked 3 times a day rather than the usual twice! </font></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><font size="2">I think it may also have something to do with the quality of the 'new' grass that it stimulated more milk than usual.</font></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><font size="2">Maybe a farmer on the list can confirm.</font></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><font size="2">best wishes</font></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><font size="2">Heather</font></strong></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><font size="2">feeling huge relief after a 2nd
day without rain and having managed to have a huge bonfire which got
rid of all the winter's weeding & pruning and Christmas decorations
+ tree plus an old chicken house. Wheee! Cathartic !</font></strong></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><font size="2"><br></font></strong></p><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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