Yes it's out, the 6th story in the Adventures of Alfie & Pepper
A delightful tale about a trip to the village fête.
With a tug of war, a terrier race, balloon dogs & a new friend, plus maypole dancing!

A great calming read for bedtime 💤🐾



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Francis Hayman (1708 – 2 February 1776) was an English painter- Round a Maypole

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Thamk for chance 🥺 Take my maypole beast Ekin 🖤

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Next Guest Art is another lovely piece from , this time a Pinot Noir piece around the maypole!
Full Piece: https://t.co/lUjJwYQ25J

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Bruegel's Maypole remake .. but not finished. but i love the people.

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On this day in 1625 Thomas Morton set up an 80 foot Maypole and threw a drunken and debaucherous pagan party to celebrate the establishment of his athiest colony which sought peaceful relations with the natives of Massachusetts, much to the dismay of the neighboring Puritans.

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Happy May Day! Catch our Megaphonecomics today + live drawing, talks, music, comedy, badgemaking and much more- check it out!

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On May 1st, it’s maypole time. An old European tradition cheering the midpoint between the spring & summer solstice, the joy of warm weather, & agrarian hope —bliss was had with festive fun & flirting. Puritans loathed the unbridled joy, which made it more fun 😉

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A Treasury of British Folklore: Maypoles, Mandrakes & Mistletoehttps - Dee Dee Chainey

Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland - Lisa Schneidau

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Feylock pride!!! 🧚🧚🧚

Yumeus, Warlock of the Maypole.
she loves to borrow other peoples faces and voices using her eldritch invocations

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I theorycrafted stats I did say it was a gameplay suggestion

Like Don't Starve's Garland I think a flower crown should have effects (e.g. at least Comfort: 1 near fire or shelter, +2 Comfort if Maypole is in radius)

You can make mobs wear it. Won't do jack but they'll look cute

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After seeing the Maypole I would like to suggest an important gameplay consideration for the player (AND Hugin) for next Midsummer 🌼👑🌺

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Oh and I've made this silly thing as a personal tribute to The Wicker Man (1973) while singing in my head

"Corn rigs and barley rigs and
Corn rigs are bonnie..."

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A London

What a gay scene it must have been in jolly old London, when the doors were decorated with flowering branches, and every hat was decked with hawthorn.

The Morris Dancers and all the other fantastic masks and revellers performed their antics about the maypole."

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First day of May. We can dance around a maypole.
Maypoles were banned a few times in the US because of their "immorality." I mean, what's immoral about dancing around an erect pole?

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The fact that they were found primarily in areas of Germanic Europe, where, prior to Christianisation, Germanic paganism was followed in various forms, has led to speculation by some that the maypoles were in some way a relic of a Germanic pagan tradition.

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"Young ladies dancing around the Maypole" (1880s), Kate Greenaway

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they need shading and bg but I'm proud already
maypole dance theme from midsommar stuck in my head because of this artwork

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Maypole dancing, an ancient ceremonial folk ritual & fertility rite performed around a tall pole decorated with foliage, flowers & ribbons woven into patterns by the dancers. Traditionally performed on in & midsummer in
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