A catchphrase, strapline, ditty, call it what you will, that will mystify the young. However, I am not thinking of football....topical as it is at present.
Cyril, possibly with a K is the name of a strawberry, and this is another rescue story. Some surplus strawberry plants were growing in a customer's garden, asked for, disentangled from the long grass, and taken to the plot. We were told they were Russian and hardy. Several years later this has proved true. Even in the rainy conditions we are experiencing they have ripened in intermittent sunshine and are large and tasty. Now they are sending out runners that we can propagate for the next generation.
Cyril is not a name for little boys nowadays but it has a distinguished history. In the ninth century Cyril devised an alphabet for the Slavonic peoples, based on the Greek one, translated the Gospels, and with his brother Methodius wrote them in the new script. Faith - transplanted from Byzantium to Bulgaria, growing in new soil. Keep giving it away.
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