I've been busy (at least, what I call busy) getting the pictures together for next year's calendar; and at last I'd got enough, which is to say, twelve.
So I got to work formatting them, and had just about finished when I got a call from the printers (Minuteman Press in Bristol, excellent folk). They'd got my Christmas cards ready.
Turned out nicely (by the way, you can find them in my Etsy shop here). I called the picture 'Welcome Yule', partly because the boater whose boat this is has obviously just brought the firewood in, and is about to have a reviving glass of Jaegermeister while the kettle boils. And partly as a nod to the medieval carol of that name, that appears in Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols, which I first heard while driving home for Christmas after one of my seafaring trips. I'd come up from Dorset through snowy hills, and this came on the radio and it was perfect for the moment.
Candelmesse, Quene of Bliss,
Wolcum bothe to more and lesse.
Wolcum, Wolcum,
Wolcum be ye that are here, Wolcum Yole,
Wolcum alle and make good cheer.
Wolcum alle another yere,
Wolcum Yole. Wolcum!
Wolcum bothe to more and lesse.
Wolcum, Wolcum,
Wolcum be ye that are here, Wolcum Yole,
Wolcum alle and make good cheer.
Wolcum alle another yere,
Wolcum Yole. Wolcum!
A merry carol...
ReplyDeleteI use Minuteman press in Ayr...it must be a franchise? They are also very good
Yes, I think they are a franchise... I did use the Minuteman in Bath once, but they were far more expensive than the Bristol folk - though everything in Bath is expensive, it seems to me! Also the folk in Bristol are friends, so I like to use them anyway.
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