My book said the weatherlore on St Wilfred’s Day is a trifle boring. But frankly, I find there’s nothing dull about standing on the pavement…
11 October 2020 – Harvest Festival of the Sea
I’m not going to lie, it was all going very badly even before I broke my netting shuttle. I didn’t mean to, but I’d bought…
10 October 2020 – Bolving
The old Welsh and the Scots Gaelic knew the tenor of their months, calling October hyddfref and damb respectively, namely the month of the rutting stags. And when a…
9 October 2020 – Time Travel
I’ve just finished the folklore and written the post and realised I’ve got the whole sodding date wrong. Twat. So, for the purposes of this…
8 October 2020 – St Keyne’s Day
And so once again I return to the theme of something delicious predicting the winter weather. On Tuesday, I tried and failed to elicit a…