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January Early Doors
The Old Nottinghamians' Society invites all ONs to January Early Doors online from 5.30pm on Thursday 27th. We get together on the last Thursday of every month to talk about... whatever you like. Meet your friends, make new ones - wherever you are in the world. Dave Nettleton (ON 1974-84) will again be our host. The Zoom details are here.
The beauty of Virtual Early Doors is that you never know who's going to be around the screen!
January by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
For January I give you vests of skins,
And mighty fires in hall, and torches lit;
Chambers and happy beds with all things fit;
Smooth silken sheets, rough furry counterpanes;
And sweetmeats baked; and one that deftly spins
Warm arras; and Douay cloth, and store of it;
And on this merry manner still to twit
The wind, when most his mastery the wind wins.
Or issuing forth at seasons in the day,
Ye'll fling soft handfuls of the fair white snow
Among the damsels standing round, in play:
And when you all are tired and all aglow,
Indoors again the court shall hold its sway,
And the free Fellowship continue so.
Translated from an original poem by Folgore da San Geminiano