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How does one celebrate a winter solstice?
Anyway you want. Get druidic and pagan if that's your fancy!
I can do pagan. There may be a bonfire this weekend with potatoes.
Remember to jump over the bonfire with your partner holding hands. Preferably before too many mulled wines have been consumed. Alternatively, drive your cattle and other livestock between two bonfires to protect them from disease etc.
Bearing in mind that a bonfire is newly kindled, that is, you can't just borrow some fire from your neighbours to start it, you have to make it from scratch.
I'll have to improvise on some stuff.