tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post3866796789422869063..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: OLD YEAR, NEW YEAR by H.M. CastorMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-51375226199302000802012-01-14T11:12:46.135+00:002012-01-14T11:12:46.135+00:00Came back to re-read this lovely post and am sure ...Came back to re-read this lovely post and am sure that the Liturgy of the Catholic Church keeps, or did keep, to around Easter for its change to the new (one of three) Liturgical Cycle for the Year.<br /><br />Thanks for the Moleworth letter from me too!Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-25091436683929194122012-01-13T22:03:20.862+00:002012-01-13T22:03:20.862+00:00Fascinating! Was the Annunciation Lady-Day? I have...Fascinating! Was the Annunciation Lady-Day? I have a dim memory of rents, wages, etc, falling due on Lady-Day in 19th-century novels. And how interesting to know that our tax system keeps a Catholic feast...threads of past belief and custom feeding into current practice.Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-41805351411172481912012-01-12T19:22:02.736+00:002012-01-12T19:22:02.736+00:00Fascinating post, Harriet! I too get incredibly co...Fascinating post, Harriet! I too get incredibly confused over the New Year date-change thing - I'd be hopeless if the year didn't actually change until March. <br /><br />And I had forgotten all about the Molesworth Self-Adjusting Thank You Letter - thank you for posting the link! I used to love it (although I'd've been in serious trouble if I'd ever actually sent it to anyone… more's the pity!).Emma Passhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18209194238119830841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-65719175387727686512012-01-12T11:24:13.854+00:002012-01-12T11:24:13.854+00:00Hello birds, hello trees, hello sky! Thank you for...Hello birds, hello trees, hello sky! Thank you for reminding us of the great Ronald Searle. How I loved Fotheringay Thomas and empathised with him as my daydreams were cut short by a direct hit at my solar plexus at the hand of the Lacrosse captain (true). I shall print off Molesworth's brilliant thank you note for future use. Thanks too, for explaining the seemingly random date of April 6th to start the new tax year.Linda B-Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01599899073420595717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-24798721399389039862012-01-12T10:22:36.353+00:002012-01-12T10:22:36.353+00:00Kath, the cupboard in this case would have been mo...Kath, the cupboard in this case would have been more like what we might call a 'sideboard' or 'dresser' - something constructed specifically to display all the gifts, with open shelves. Very costly plate would often be displayed like this at other times too - designed to impress! What we could call a cupboard, with doors, would have been called a 'press', I believe.<br /><br />I must look up that passage of Gawain and the Green Knight!<br /><br />And catdownunder - I would like to know more about the Greek Julian-timing of Christmas, and indeed about Chinese New Year too. When does the year actually change on Chinese calendars? In this modern global economy, do we all have to be synchronised, for the purposes of business transactions, at least?H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-20315432480752394662012-01-12T09:44:33.540+00:002012-01-12T09:44:33.540+00:00Great post - complicated subject! My daughter and...Great post - complicated subject! My daughter and I were talking about Gawain & the Green Knight recently, in which of course Christmas & New Year are so important - remember the excitemen of Arthur's court at Camelot as the knights rush about presenting each other with New year's gifts? <br /><br />Just to further complicate the issue, can anyone tell me if that 'cupboard' was really a modern style cupboard, in Tudor times - or, as I was once informed, literally a board with hooks for cups to hang?Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-22140909565163842382012-01-12T09:38:06.996+00:002012-01-12T09:38:06.996+00:00I never knew that was why September was the sevent...I never knew that was why September was the seventh month etc. Thanks, Harriet! Oh, and I drove past Chatterton's school house in Bristol the other day, and, because of your post, really 'saw' it for the first time - so thanks for that, too!Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-61535449622993491672012-01-12T09:31:10.679+00:002012-01-12T09:31:10.679+00:00Oh but there is still Chinese New Year - and my si...Oh but there is still Chinese New Year - and my sister's Greek in-laws had Christmas the other day because of the Julian calendar. But, this blog is fascinating when you wonderful people come up with such interesting facts!catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-30223926042809768202012-01-12T09:08:38.453+00:002012-01-12T09:08:38.453+00:00Lovely blog, Harriet. I'm so glad I live in t...Lovely blog, Harriet. I'm so glad I live in the 21st century where everybody's sorted out when our New Year begins and I'm fascinated to learn why my Tax Year starts on April 6th. Most especially thank you for the Molesworth letter - what a time saver!Barbara Mitchelhillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-55955524615122423842012-01-12T08:54:14.369+00:002012-01-12T08:54:14.369+00:00Great post, Harriet! New Year is a complicated tim...Great post, Harriet! New Year is a complicated time. I recently blogged about how first century Romans celebrated it. (flavias.blogspot.com) In his book on Roman festivals called the Fasti, the poet Ovid imagines himself conversing with two-faced Janus. <br /><br />Ovid: Why does the new year begin in midwinter and not in spring when everything is fresh and new?<br />Janus: Midwinter marks the death of the old sun and the beginning of the new. The year takes its start from that point. <br /><br />So even the Romans were confused. <br /><br />As to why Henry VIII was leaning against his cupboard, he was obviously hung-over! ;-)Caroline Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249424644829463560noreply@blogger.com