<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">===========================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 22 June 2009 - Volume 01<br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Encoding: Unicode (UTF-08)</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Language Codes: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</a></span><br>===========================================<br></div><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="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.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="gI">LL-L "Holidays" 2009.06.19 (01) [EN]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Just got back from a Juhannus party in Finland! Coldest and wettest one anybody could remember, but a good time had by all.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Derby</div>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">England</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="http://uk.mc264.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Subject: Holidays</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I assume that quite a few of you will travel this weekend. This is why I am sending these
holiday greetings out early enough to catch most of you.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">On
behalf of everyone I wish all fathers, grandfather, great-grandfathers
and father figures on Lowlands-L happy Fathers' Day. Hopefully all of
you will have visitors and get phone calls, cards and email messages.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Also, happy Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice respectively to all of you to whom these matter! Happy </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sankt Hans aften</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> in Denmark, </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Jaanipäev </i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">in Estonia, </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">juhannus</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> in Finland, </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Sankthansaften</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
in Norway, </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Midsommarafton</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> in Sweden, </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Noc Świętojańska</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
especially in Northern Poland, and many variants of Midsummer festivals
in Britain, Ireland and Man, to name but a few. It is also the
beginning of the month-long </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Белые ночи</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> (White Nights) for our friends in Russia.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Best regards,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Seattle, USA</span><br>
</div>
<p>
==============================END===================================
<p>
* Please submit postings to lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org.
<p>
* Postings will be displayed unedited in digest form.
<p>
* Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.
<p>
* Commands for automated functions (including "signoff lowlands-l")
<p>
are to be sent to listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org or at
<p>
http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html.
<p>
*********************************************************************