{"id":12719,"date":"2019-02-01T18:39:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2019-02-02T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:46:08","slug":"blogathon-01-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12719","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 01\/19: Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I like a good tradition. It speaks of culture, and of heritage, and of the ways of the elders and gives examples of how they lived their lives. For the elders had many lives in those far-off days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a bad tradition, though. Bad traditions such as burning witches at the <del>steak<\/del> stake, and forcing children up chimneys (though some might say that former tradition has its merits even in C21st England \u2013 but only in England, because the gentle folk of Wales, Scotland and Nor-nIre are too cultured, obv).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But good traditions, yes, they have a place\nin our past and our present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I once attend Obby Oss in Padstow. That was a nice tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Padstow May Day 2017,  the &#039;Obby &#039;Oss tradition\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Yol4Y7rdew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No witches were harmed, no Morrisses were\nactually danced on, and no children were shoved up the nearest chimney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A safe, gentle English tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like cucumber sandwiches on a sunny Sunday afternoon, as the sound of Willow hitting <del>Heather<\/del> leather accompanies a polite ripple of applause from the pavilion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the brass band in the park, perhaps on\nthe same Sunday afternoon, oompahing its way through Cliff Richard\u2019s Greatest\nHit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, these are traditions to cherish, to\nnurture, and to be forever proud. Of. Except we don\u2019t end sentences with a preposition,\ndo we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take two:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, these are traditions to cherish, to\nnurture, and of which we should be forever proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there is another gentle pursuit, in the\nGreat British Box of Traditions, that deserves our love and respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is, of course, Young Masher\u2019s Annual February Blogathon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yay, I hear you cry. Or perhaps I just hear\nyou cry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, pull yourself together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is February the Firstest, and that means it is time to put childish games aside (games like Whose Brexit Is It Anyway? and I&#8217;m Sorry I Haven&#8217;t A Brexit), and embrace YMAFB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I shall (put childish games away). For it is an actual tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Innit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Word<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*wanders away wondering if <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Young Masher (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/masher.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Young Masher<\/a> will be fashionably late to his own tradition this year*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like a good tradition. 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