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posted on 6 Mar 2005 by Gianna Stefani
I would like to add:

Elaine Jones wrote:
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posted on 5 Mar 2005 by Gianna Stefani
I would like to add:

When were toddlers we were told when it was snowing that it was
"Mother Goose shaking her feather-beds".

Featherbeds belong to the days when one had to breath on the windows on
a frosty morning, then scrape the "ice ferns" off.


Ah yes ... those were very comfortable ... if only they still existed.

A featherbed under and an eiderdown over beats a duvet any day.

The last featherbed I remember was that of Great Aunty Gladys; she died
1990/91. There were gales between Christmas and New Year and Dad said to
me (parents had moved to N. Wales) "You'd better go - there's a new moon
coming."

So I went, with high winds over the M62 to Howden, N. Humberside; other
members of the family had arrived before me and others immediately after.

She departed as the year changed, on a dark moon and an ebb tide.

Superstition? Fact.

G-A.G. in an earlier century would have been a "witch" or a "wise-woman";
she knew the (local) weather and managed her large garden accordingly,
and in her 80s worked part-time for a local market-gardener.


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