No snow here yet
I’m still hoping, but as it’s raining here in the South, I think the above is the closest we’ll get.
By illustrator Ferdi Afflerbach, it’s taken from ‘Popular Customs and Festivals in Switzerland’, a booklet produced by the Swiss National Tourist Office in 1986.
It illustrates the festival of Klausschellen, celebrated by schoolchildren of most Glarus communities, who parade through their villages ringing bells and collecting good things to eat.
I found it 30 years later, rummaging in Emmaus, the charity shop in Hove, when I should really have been out Christmas shopping. So although not ringing a bell, I took part in my own kind of festival and collected something good.
Today’s selection from The Foundery
Crown Devon pots with abstract design
The Foundery 