On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:25:26 -0000, Adrian Olsen <adrian1@waitrose.com> wrote: > The snowy weather reminds me of that wonderful poem Winter from the end > of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Keeling the pot is apparently > adding > cold water to stop a pot boiling over and, for those under a certain > age, a pail is a bucket. Hi Adrian and Listers, This is one of my favourite Winter poems, remembered from my school days. > When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, There's a web page about Shakespeare's Roasted Crabs: http://www.christmasarchives.org/crabs.html Some may be surprised to find that the crabs were apples. The Wassail Bowl is also mentioned on this interesting page from a web site called The Christmas Archives. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com