Calne (Saturday 3rd December 2016)

I popped into Calne at dusk to see the Calne Winter Festival And Lantern Parade. This is one of the three stately camels that were about to lead the massively long parade down New Road into the town centre.

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4.12.2016 (1106 hr)

Blip #1987 (#2237 including 250 archived blips)
Consecutive Blip #008
Day #2445 (460 gaps from 26 March 2010)
LOTD #1222 (#1348 including 126 on archived blips)

Calne Christmas Festival & Lantern Parade, 3 December 2016 (Flickr album)

Calne Nativity: Town claims world record for largest gathering (BBC News page)
Hosts of angels, herds of shepherds and hundreds of wise men: the town where everyone got a part in the nativity play (The Telegraph)


Taken with Pentax K-5 and Pentax smc P-DA* 55mm F1.4 SDM lens

Calne series

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Rolling Stones - I can't quit you baby (recorded 14 December 2015)
Recorded in just over two days last year, Blue & Lonesome (which was delivered to me on this day) is the first studio album by the Stones since 2005, and the first to consist wholly of cover versions. Every track is an old blues, remembered from their founding years in the early sixties, of artists like the Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter, the blues harmonica player (giving Jagger a chance to remind us how good he is on blues harp). This Willie Dixon composition was first recorded by Otis Rush in Chicago in July 1956 and featured Big Walter Horton on harmonica. Although most cover versions are based on a more recent recording he cut for Vanguard in 1967, the Stones go back to the original Cobra single for theirs, and are augmented by Eric Clapton on guitar.

One Year Ago:
Smokey 1315 hr