{"id":2922,"date":"2011-01-17T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T12:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2011-01-17T08:17:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T12:17:40","slug":"hastings-vegan-dining-club-wassailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/hastings-vegan-dining-club-wassailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings Vegan Dining Club Wassailing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hastings Vegan Dining Club members Wassailing around an apple tree. This included banging a saucepan with a wooden spoon to ward off evil spirits, reading out a blessing and sprinkling the ground with a special beverage. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Hastings Vegan Dining Club went wassailing recently. Wassailing<\/a> means “be in good health.” At this time of year, people everywhere go out to their fruit trees at dusk and stand around them to make noise to ward off evil spirits, raise toasts and sprinkle the ground to encourage bountiful crops. Blessings are also read. And we vegans do it, too. Well, the Hastings Vegan Dining Club did it at the home of two of our members who farm organically and have an apple tree in their garden. Here’s the blessing we read out.<\/p>\n

Here we come a-wassailing.\u00a0Among the leaves so green.\u00a0Wassaile the trees, that they may beare.\u00a0You many a plum and many a peare.\u00a0For more or lesse fruits they will bring.\u00a0As you do give them wassailing.\u00a0Here’s to thee, old apple tree.\u00a0That blooms well, bears well.\u00a0Hats full, Three bushel bags full, and all under one tree.\u00a0HURRAH! HURRAH!\u00a0We should all drink to that …\u00a0And wish each other, one and all,\u00a0A healthy and happy New Year!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With the Wassailing over, we went indoors for a lovely three course meal of appetisers, baked or jacket potato and buckwheat vegetable stew, and traditional figgy pudding.<\/p>\n

Hastings Vegan Dining Club members look forward to celebrating our third anniversary with a very special meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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