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Rosey Cheeks (A Pain in the Arse)

from Winter Wanderland

December 19th, 2025
7 tracks
28:29
Winter Wanderland
Winter Wanderland
Rosey Cheeks (A Pain in the Arse)
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Rosey Cheeks (A Pain in the Arse)
Wanderhall
“So lost I was, that I found I had grown quite frustrated. At this rate, I thought, my expedition for nary half a cord of firewood would turn my undoing and some poor hunter or traveler would find my icy husk come the spring. Probably the best that it didn’t all shake out that way, or I’d have had to haunt that poor soul with my angry ghost. Still, though, in my frustration I sat down on what I thought was the stump of an old bygone oak. As it turns out it was just a snow drift, and…welll… I can still feel a stinging in my seat to this day when I remember it…” -Erbsto Bedherwyc, “A Frosty Epistle to a Winter’s Guest” Chapter II, verse IX
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When a gnome goes for a walk in the snow...

Old Erbsto Bedherwyc returns, like that one sweater in the back of your closet, with a septet of snowy stories concerning what happens when you sit in the snow for too long and end up with "rosey cheeks." (his words, not mine) Find yourself a mug of spruce ale or your favorite tea and sit by the fire a while if you will. Erbsto likes telling a good story and isn't known to embellish (much).

Album story in the "lyrics"

Credits

All tracks written and recorded in the Thrivinwood by Thee Wandering Gnome on a Korg MiniLogue, Fender Stratocaster, and some dusty old VSTs.
Art and logo by Thee Scrivener of Fenmoss
Art assets from Pixabay
Public domain painting "Glædelig Jul," Artist Unknown, 1885
Many thanks to Hjartans, Hypgnomsis, and Wooden Vessels for sage art advice and putting up with my demos and shenanigans.


Dedicated to the memory of Warren B. (DOTS).
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