December 11

It's Day 11!

The answer to yesterday's quote is Keeper's Yard.  Philip is talking.

Today's Guess the Quote:

"You have no idea how fast you are when you get like that, it's like trying to keep up with the roadrunner."
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This is one of my favorites to hear at Christmas time.
TSO - Christmas Eve Sarajevo

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Story to Check Out: The Coming of Spring

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Christmas Tour by Ranger
Today’s Christmas trip is the UK Harry Potter studio tour!
https://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInL-ssJOG3wIViLTtCh1vDAEIEAAYAiAAEgIRtPD_BwE
 

See the Hogwarts sets, the props and the costumes, see the Hogwarts castle in the snow for Christmas and the great hall set for the Yule Ball:
 https://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/hogwarts-in-the-snow

 And you can take a look here at some of the Christmas goodies available in the Harry Potter shop including uniform in the Hogwarts house of your choice:
https://shop.wbstudiotour.co.uk/ 
You may also like to make yourself a glass of butterbeer to enjoy https://wizardingworldpark.com/butterbeer-recipes/

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Ever wonder what the ornament on Philip's desk looked like.  Here it is!

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Today's Trivia:
1.Dale and Paul buy an old book on which subject?

2. In Jake's opinion, Lord Byron needs what?

3. What good is soggy toast?

Trivia answers ... 
1.  On nursing 
2. A good spanking ! 

The quote was said to dale ... By riley but cant remember which book

Remembered ! Its Maddison hall ! Yay!!!

Wow phillips ornament is beautiful ! .. i always did wonder how it looks like ...thanks for sharing

The ornament is beautiful.

So - I didn't remember reading The Coming of Spring.  As I read the first two or three paragraphs, I was wondering how in the world I had missed this little story.  However, once Riley showed up, it came back to me.  What a great tease.

How did I miss this April Fool's delight?? Three years late to the party and I love it. THANK YOU for including it in the Advent activities. 

Now the picture at the top of the story has prompted a thought: I've seen enough pictures of cowboys and ranch hands - both smut and otherwise - to know that chaps feature fairly often. Do the ranch fellas ever don a pair? I imagine it could be quite the...distracting...image. This guy here clearly didn't ask Paul for his shirt. 



As for the quote, I'm guessing Madison Hall, about 30 seconds before Dale gets well switched. 

Trisha

. Do the ranch fellas ever don a pair? I imagine it could be quite the...distracting...image. This guy here clearly didn't ask Paul for his shirt. wrote:



Trisha

Ha ha ha ha !!! 

Clearly Paul was too busy admiring him ... Like me 

Well, you know - there’s alot to....ummm....admire....!

Can I get this picture in a desktop wallpaper size? Hmm?

Love that Christmas Ornament.

I really liked the Harry Potter tour.  I'd love to see that in person.

And I enjoyed the TSO video - especially when the little girl 'directs' from the top of the piano.  The kittens are adorable.

In my opinion soggy toast is not good for anything except giving it to the dog!

There are 2 Trish trivia questions that have me stumped.  One is the soggy toast reference, and the other is about the Morning Herald.  I'm probably going to feel like an idiot when Trish posts the answers, but I can't find those two references.

Here's some hints:

Apples

A local legend, a quick word

@Trisha Louise wrote:Here's some hints:

Apples

A local legend, a quick word

HA - got The Morning Herald.  It was the newspaper for Three Traders.  Thanks for the hint, Trish.

Apples as a hint didn't help - at least not yet.  I was thinking of the first essay Flynn asked Dale to write about apples.  Then I thought about Freeman's Field where Dale is fiddling with apples, but no luck.

I'll keep looking, though!

Didn’t the wassailing of the apple trees involve soggy toast?

@Denicemarcell wrote:Didn’t the wassailing of the apple trees involve soggy toast?

Well done

I've wassailed a lot of apple trees, but no soggy toast ever showed up! (-;

Well done, Denice.  I did a sort of speed read through Freeman's Field looking for the word 'soggy'.  I just read it more thoroughly and found the part where Dale puts a piece of toast in the bowl and Jasper pours David's moonshine over it.

I've warned you all before how literal I am.  This is a perfect example!

Fun fact - there were soggy sprouts mentioned as part of Dale's pretty revolting Christmas dinner at school.