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For those in #EastKent searching a #wassail, there's one in #Sandwich on 4 Jan (with a #hoodening walk etc. before featuring Trudgepig): 14:00 St Crispin Inn, Worth; 15:00 Time & Tide Taproom; 16:00 Sandwich Medieval Centre. (https://www.facebook.com/events/885988743684265/)

Then another in #StNicholasAtWade on 11 Jan, 19:30 (https://www.facebook.com/events/348463171659419/)

#folklore #calendarcustom #wassailing #folktradition

Our local #EastKent #MummersPlay was performed by the #BoydenGate #Mummers again this Boxing Day, followed by the #Wantsum #Morris men. A reasonable audience, with many ramblers and dogs as usual.

So this is #Solstice/#Xmas, and what have we done? The #Hoodening's over, we all had great fun… hopefully our audiences too, 13 performances around #Thanet in #EastKent, raising around £2000 for #SERVkent (Blood Runners). A new script as always, in rhyming couplets, but no new song this year. Topical references to NHS dentists, freebie clothing, Oasis, cost of living, explosive ships & rockets, Rwandagate, Wonkagate, Aurora Borealis, rural housing, dogging, army horses, and more… #HoodenHorse

We'd like to think you've heard of our Dobbin,
The Kent #hoodenhorse, who this week's out jobbin'
If local - which even includes some from Lon-don
Please do come along and share in the fun,
If not, you'll find plenty of stuff on the web
(and most other socials: Dobbin's a celeb!)

https://hoodening.org.uk #folklore

Night 3: #Reculver #Monkton #Broadstairs #Margate (all #EastKent - mostly #thanet )

@david_castleton "was"? Many #mumming folk traditions continue, as does the vaguely-related #mummering in Newfoundland, not to forget our own #Hoodening of course in #EastKent (which didn't die out in 1910 as your article suggests - see for example the books by Frampton or Frost for more details). Tomorrow is actually our first day of the season...

A few weeks back @jillswan10 and I ran a carving day together, I started this spoon from a bent piece of Cherry.
It's got alternating facets and curves, that really blend well for the eye, much more pleasing in person than the photos, and sometimes life if just like that.

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This glorious piece of Cherry makes me smile so very much, the last of three spoons from this one billet I had, all the rest of the log looks like Cherry I'm used to.
I wonder what's caused this billet to be so different, does anyone know?

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@paulisci As a long time Canterbury resident, I'm proud of our native spirit! Also worth noting how close Canterbury is to Dover, and thus, how easy it could be to say, fall asleep on the train after a few drinks and end up there (or so I hear). The rest is just inevitable and I'm amazed it doesn't happen more often... #Canterbury #dover #eastkent

Tommy approves of his Dino-Spoon.
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In preparation of an upcoming Kolrosing session @spoonhoolie I made a demo piece using the tip of a @morakniv carving knife to show it can be done without a dedicated kolrosing blade.
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Being as Birch (Betula pendula) is so soft, it can be particularly tough to get clean facets on.
So I challenged myself to get 16 flat facets, around the length of the handle following into the back of the Spoon, incorporating both concave and convex lines.
I had to highlight them by adding some ground cinnamon to highlight the grain and ridges, before burnishing.
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Everything you wanted to know about the #EastKent #folk tradition of #hoodening and #hoodenhorses but never dared ask is - probably - contained in hoodening.org.uk, the #OzaruBooks publications shown there, the current exhibition at Maidstone Museum … and now @thefolklorepodcast podcast at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-130.html - enjoy! #FolkloreThursday #folklore 🐴

Lovely evening, carving with Pathcarvers.
Really nice to see experimentation with shapes, and decoration.
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Wash has an adventure with Dinospoonus Rex.
I think Tommy approves.
#Dinosaur #DinoSpoon #DinoSpoonusRex
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I made a sheath for this Adze I got from @oscarrush_ at last years Spoontown.
What can I say, this tool is a beast, I used it for roughing out the inside and outside of a trinket bowl, it made very short work of the process.
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Crafty Claire Bow (my beautiful wife), crocheted this for me, in preparation for a summer of festivals, Spoontown Download Festival The Great Scottish Spoon Hoolie .
I stitches in the lining on the pockets, made and added the spoon-buttons and attached the loops.
#CraftCollaboration
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My ode to @russelljwest 's facety goodness kick he's been on.
Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus)
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Tommy has a thing to say about my spoons, happy Grandad Spoon.
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A delightful evening with the @pathcarvers group last night, held in @holdcreativespaces , we were lucky enough to be surrounded by the creative art of @karen.vost .
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I have carved so many spoons this week that I've not been able to post about, as they are for show later, that when I finished this spoon last night, I knew that it needed a photoshoot.
And as I was getting ready for Tai Chi this morning I noticed the sun, so it came out with me, we trained together in @ellington_park, then after had a wander enjoying the rays.

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Another quiet evening at Pathcarvers just 3 of us again lots of finishing previous projects and the much needed space to chat and decompress 💛.
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Half way through 6 different spoons from 1 template.
All roughed out to be the same point, then changed to fit and individualise each of them.

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Step by step the process of making a spoon, with a few extra spoons that will be finished to show differences that can be achieved from the same roughed out blank.
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Lovely evening with the Pathcarvers in Ramsgate last night, carving and sharpening sloyd knives, next week will be hook knives, and yes you guessed it, more sharpening 💛.
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#SmallSpoon 's and other objects, finished as #keyrings and #jewellery , I really enjoyed making these items, and will definitely make more of these beautiful objects.
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#SmallSpoon well technically it's a small spatula, from Robinia (Robinia pseudoacacia).
This one is 6.5cm (2.5")
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#SmallSpoon #SmallSpoonHorn from Robinia (Robinia pseudoacacia).
This one is 6cm (2.5")
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#SmallSpoon gift for my wife @craftyclairebow , it's my take of the #RUACSpoonChallenge40 from Robinia (Robinia pseudoacacia).
This one is 6cm (2.5")
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More small spoon output from Robinia (Robinia pseudoacacia).
This one is 7cm (2.5") in the shape of a medieval fig style spoon although I have only just noticed when carving it this size how close it also is to a cawl spoon, perhaps taking the age of the cawl spoon back even further.

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Another #SmallSpoon this one held by Tommy the legend.
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Just finished preparing these 20 teaspoon blanks for a kids carving group this evening.
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Turner sunrise this morning off the coast at #broadstairs #thanet #sunrise #eastkent

Now open for bookings! Welcome to the GOC Annual Outdoor Gathering for 2023 in Canterbury, last hosted by our #EastKent group in 2005 #LGBToutdoors #GOCAOG23 https://www.goc.org.uk/event/aog-2023-at-the-university-of-kent-canterbury/

Ein #hoodenhorse "Satan" mewn paentiad newydd gan #BenEdge. Bydd hwn - a llawer o geffylau #EastKent gwreiddiol o'n traddodiad #hoodening - yn cael eu dangos yn yr arddangosfa yn Maidstone o fis Chwefror. Os na allwch gyrraedd Maidstone, gallwch ddarllen y llyfr cysylltiedig (https://ozaru.net/ozarubooks/animal-guising.html) #folklore #marilwyd

A snapshot from a #Hoodening and #wassail day in Sandwich, #EastKent, with #Hoodeners from Deal and Canterbury, stags & modern Whitstable beasts (May Day, #hoodenhorse replicas, #MariLwyd). All of these are due to appear in an exhibition at #Maidstone Museum from February, and are featured in the linked #OzaruBooks publication out now.

Finished sharpening all my tools, then...
An enjoyable couple of hours.
Roughing out these Laburnum spoons.
This is the first time really working on axing since my bicep injury.
Sore now so time to rest.
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