24 Festive Tasks: Hogswatch

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Book: Read any Terry Pratchett book or a book with a pig on the cover.

   HOGFATHER  by Terry Pratchett (read by Nigel Planer)

I think this is becoming a 24 Festive Task tradition. Here is something to keep in mind when next you read Hogfather. One of the characters who we meet very briefly is Schlimazel. His name tells us all we need to know about the character; it is a Yiddish word meaning one whose luck is consistently bad.

Task 1: Pick a Terry Pratchett quote that will be a (good?) omen for 2021.

From The Wee Free Men:

Nothing's louder than the end of a song that's always been there. 

Task 2: A Cologne legend dating all the way back to the Middle Ages has it that once upon a time, there was a race of busy little household gnomes called Heinzelmännchen who would come at night and secretly do all your work: If there ever has been a supernatural being we've fervently wished into existence, it would be them ... or, well, a god or a fairy doing the same thing. So, what one domestic or work-related chore would you want your Heinzelmännchen to do in your stead?

Without a blink, my Heinzelmännchen will clean the bathrooms daily, all the bathrooms,  floor to ceiling, wall to wall to wall to wall and every inch in between.