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[Globaltruth]

Well now, due to your continued interest, current equine attraction and to finish this little sub-thread off (probably) here's a clip of the [Benedict] Comberbach Soulcakers that combines the Christmas Champions AND the Mari-Lwyd - except in this case, she is known as the Hodening Horse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7zy6dO8vM

Note the slightly embarassed way most of the performers have, the yawning barmaid and, of course, the TV remains on throughout.

[Lat-Literal]

Well now, due to your continued interest, current equine attraction and to finish this little sub-thread off (probably) here's a clip of the [Benedict] Comberbach Soulcakers that combines the Christmas Champions AND the Mari-Lwyd - except in this case, she is known as the Hodening Horse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7zy6dO8vM

Note the slightly embarassed way most of the performers have, the yawning barmaid and, of course, the TV remains on throughout.

Excellent.

I think the customers are very brave.

It is best to hide behind several people at those sorts of events because you never know what you might be dragged into or indeed how.

Incidentally, I do have a very odd story about Cumberbatches - black - which developed on another forum.

But I will save it.

[Globaltruth]

Incidentally, I do have a very odd story about Cumberbatches - black - which developed on another forum.

But I will save it.

Why Lat, you tease.
Are you sure it doesn't involve this...


Ah no, that's a black cummerband.
;-)

Or this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKtIgkMBQ4

Ah no, that's a Cumberland Gap

[johncorrigan]

...or this?

https://images.stv.tv/articles/w384/398412-cumbernauld-town-centre.jpg

Aw naw, that'll be Cumbernauld!

Thanks for the Christmas Champs, by the by Global...delightful!

[Lat-Literal]

[Globaltruth]

Along the way I've found a free bit of software that lets you strip the sound off a YouTube video and create an MP3. Think it's legal as long as the original video is covered by the Creative Commons licence.
I knew you'd be interested...

Anyway Christmas Champs is compulsory at some point during this period. I'm chuffed you both liked it (still - 2007 when they recorded it)
Still trying to track down that Doctor Quack, just 3 drops please doctor.

[johncorrigan]

Anyway Christmas Champs is compulsory at some point during this period. I'm chuffed you both liked it (still - 2007 when they recorded it)
Still trying to track down that Doctor Quack, just 3 drops please doctor.

Yeah but three drops of what, GT? Also loved the Mari-Lwyd vid - I've listened to it lots of times over the last few years but knew nothing of its links to the horse skull wandering the streets. Most interesting indeed.

[Globaltruth]

Yeah but three drops of what, GT? Also loved the Mari-Lwyd vid - I've listened to it lots of times over the last few years but knew nothing of its links to the horse skull wandering the streets. Most interesting indeed.

Well master storyteller (he's more than that of course) Hugh Lupton deserves all the credit for the research work via the Mari Lwyd lyrics.
I admire the way the layers of meaning and/or interpretation in a lot of his work (perhaps not in One in a Million).
The 'three drops'? We're nearly there in terms of when the three drops start to take effect - equinox tomorrow.

[Lat-Literal]

Actually it isn't much of a story. I wouldn't recognise Benedict Cumberbatch if he passed me on a street and I said so on a forum. What I also said was that Cumberbatch is a very unusual name but I did know someone of that name who was black and originally from Barbados. Another member e-mailed me to say that he had been reviewing all of his late father's diaries, many of which were written during the war. I knew he was doing that review anyway. He asked me whether the first name of the Cumberbatch I knew was X and around such and such an age (I won't name him here). And I said "goodness, yes.......do you know him?" and he replied "no, not really but I think his father was a close friend of my father". He then sent me a photo of perhaps a dozen or so military people with their names written alongside. One was his father - and another one was the only black man in the group and he was a Cumberbatch. There were other bits and pieces in the writing to link it up. As I say, not the greatest story but I wonder how Benedict acquired that name?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... but I wonder how Benedict acquired that name?

His father is Tim Carlton Cumberbatch.

"Cumberbatch" derives from Old English, "Cumber" (as in "Cumbria" and "Cumberland" - and "Cambria"; the pre-Saxon designation of the peoples of Britain) and "Batch" (meaning "stream" or "brook", as in the modern German "bach").

[Lat-Literal]

His father is Tim Carlton Cumberbatch.

"Cumberbatch" derives from Old English, "Cumber" (as in "Cumbria" and "Cumberland" - and "Cambria"; the pre-Saxon designation of the peoples of Britain) and "Batch" (meaning "stream" or "brook", as in the modern German "bach").

Oh.....perhaps there are different derivations then?

Thank you.

nb I have just googled....genuinely. This makes for interesting reading!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549773/How-Benedict-Cumberbatchs-family-fortune-slavery-And-roles-films-like-12-Years-A-Slave-bid-atone-sins.html

[Globaltruth]

Actually it isn't much of a story. I wouldn't recognise Benedict Cumberbatch if he passed me on a street and I said so on a forum. What I also said was that Cumberbatch is a very unusual name but I did know someone of that name who was black and originally from Barbados. Another member e-mailed me to say that he had been reviewing all of his late father's diaries, many of which were written during the war. I knew he was doing that review anyway. He asked me whether the first name of the Cumberbatch I knew was X and around such and such an age (I won't name him here). And I said "goodness, yes.......do you know him?" and he replied "no, not really but I think his father was a close friend of my father". He then sent me a photo of perhaps a dozen or so military people with their names written alongside. One was his father - and another one was the only black man in the group and he was a Cumberbatch. There were other bits and pieces in the writing to link it up. As I say, not the greatest story but I wonder how Benedict acquired that name?

I found this interesting Lat, thanks - and the Daily Mail article was surprisingly factual, the whole investigation turning into a satisfying detective story.

[johncorrigan]

Well master storyteller (he's more than that of course) Hugh Lupton deserves all the credit for the research work via the Mari Lwyd lyrics.
I admire the way the layers of meaning and/or interpretation in a lot of his work (perhaps not in One in a Million).
The 'three drops'? We're nearly there in terms of when the three drops start to take effect - equinox tomorrow.

Reading through a Christmas book of poems I came upon Christmas by Leigh Hunt. I assume it was written in the early to mid-1850s. A nice wee litany of English Christmas traditions including some already mentioned this last few days and some I never heard of.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/dec/19/leigh-hunt-saturday-poem-christmas

[Lat-Literal]

I found this interesting Lat, thanks - and the Daily Mail article was surprisingly factual, the whole investigation turning into a satisfying detective story.

That pleases me a great amount. Not that I am jumping to conclusions but I was reminded of the recent "Who Do You Think You Are?" in which presenter Liz Bonnin traced her family back to Martinique and Trinidad among other places and discovered that in her family tree a white slave owner had married a black slave. This was described as unusual but it was not unique. My colleague who was a fair number of years older than me had been a bit of a socialist firebrand. He would be brotherly with most of us who he considered to be in the lower orders but he frequently rubbed management up the wrong way with militant talk. That talk often seemed exceptionally bitter, personal and deep rooted. I may now know why especially! There were also aspects that few would have known and even fewer would have believed - a Scottish law degree which had led to nowhere and about which only we chosen ones were told, hints at local black rights leadership in London ("my people") and perhaps surprisingly properties in Barbados to which he was about to retire.

Reading through a Christmas book of poems I came upon Christmas by Leigh Hunt. I assume it was written in the early to mid-1850s. A nice wee litany of English Christmas traditions including some already mentioned this last few days and some I never heard of.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...poem-christmas

Very nice JC.

[Lat-Literal]

.......I have added some tunes to our Christmas Spotify list.