Group: | Ankh Morpork Order of Postal Workers Benevolent an |
Swap Coordinator: | Lady (contact) |
Swap categories: | Challenges Mail Art |
Number of people in swap: | 2 |
Location: | International |
Type: | Type 3: Package or craft |
Rating requirement: | 4.88 |
Last day to signup/drop: | December 10, 2019 |
Date items must be sent by: | January 31, 2020 |
Number of swap partners: | 1 |
Description: | |
Is Ick, the shortest month on Discworld, coming? Who can bear to only celebrate Hogswatch and the New Year only every 400 days? If you were to be the one to name 2020 for Discworld, what would it be called? Two partners. Celebrate the name of the year you make up by creating and sending a card/postcard/thing (try to keep it light, we’re paying the Post, I’m thinking under 2oz / 55grams). Can be wordily creative, need not be the most traditionally artistic. Past years included: - Common Year 2018: Year if the Indefensible Lobster or The Year of the Justifiably Defensive Lobster (hmmm) - 2017 The Year of the Backwards-Facing Artichoke - 2016: The Year of the Sneezing Panda - 2015: The Year of the Spinning Mouse When we discover the official DW name for 2020, I’m willing to host a swap for that unless someone else claims the privilege. From wikipedia? "The Celebrated Discworld Almanak clarifies previously opaque or puzzling aspects of the calendar. “This be for the Common Year, that being the four hundred days that measure the Season from Winter's Edge until the snows come again, and the Hogswatch is celebrated. All Celestial measurements, Observations and notations of Stars, houses of the firmament, and other divers heavenly bodies are taken on the Full Celestial year, of eight hundred days, which encompasses two common years...” |
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