Walthamstow
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Walthamstow Wassail 2024
I have been going to the Walthamstow Wassail for so long that it has been a decade since I wrote about it for the Guardian. I have been going to the Walthamstow Wassail for so long, that when I tried to give my friend a hug, she pulled a muscle. I have been going to Read more
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Walthamstow Wassail 2023
“Are you looking for the the wassail? Head up the lane until you find a shed with a light on”. We all need traditions and celebrations, to bind us to pasts real or imagined, and to remind of us the cyclical nature of time. The wassail is a folk tradition based on the important twin Read more
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Walthamstow Wassail 2021
Sunday was the 11th Walthamstow Wassail: online this year, like so many other events and traditions that break up the year and help give life some narrative and meaning. Conspiracy theorists view Covid as an agent of state control, and vaccines as containing microchips designed by billionaires to make the masses more pliant. These people Read more
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