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Plum Pudding, Bibliomancy, Goblins and Other Charms – Page 2 – Lioness at Large

Plum Pudding, Bibliomancy, Goblins and Other Charms

Task 2: Thruppences! Is plum pudding part of your festivities? It is seeded with thruppence or charms for good luck? Show us what’s in your plum pudding!

Plum pudding sometimes is part of my Christmas, but if so, it’s store-bought, so no thruppences or any other lucky charms inside (and I wouldn’t exactly expect to find royal rubies in mine, either …). This year, it’s not a plum pudding but a whisky cake, which is similar, but slightly less packed (it’s sort of a mixture between fruitcake and a plum pudding). Here are this year’s and last year’s varieties (this year’s, on the left, between the sole remaining slices of my BFF Gaby’s Stollen and fruitcake).

 

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