Games
Come in. Pull up a chair.
Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.
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Skipper
Got a place worth the drive?
Down the road
Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.
Mummering
Disguised neighbours crash your kitchen at Christmas, and you must guess who they are.
Mummering (or jannying) is the Christmas custom of going house-to-house in disguise from St. Stephen's Day onward, with hosts trying to unmask the visitors before they earn a drink and a bite. The custom declined in the 1960s - new wall-to-wall carpets made messy house calls unwelcome - and revived strongly in the 1980s. Traditional mummers' plays featured stock characters including King George, the Doctor, and the Turkish Knight. The landmark scholarly study, Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland, was published in 1968.
Fact
Where that comes from
On the go
Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.
The kitchen
Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.
The hall
Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.
The yarns
He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.
Not the house
No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.
Back up the road
