As today is the last Tuesday of January, it’s the Up Helly Aa fire festival in Lerwick. And it’s days like these I wish Sussex…
27 January 2020 – #BigGardenBirdWatch
The Big Garden Bird Watch is an annual tradition organised by the RSPB and has been going more than 40 years. Over a dedicated weekend…
26 January 2020 – Hans My Hedgehog
Today was a bit of a scramble to get my folklore quota in. What I was going to do got cancelled, and then I felt…
25 January 2020 – St Dwynwen’s Day
So I thought to myself, why not write a short love poem using Welsh bardic form? I mean, how difficult could it be? I’m thinking that my burnt clarity-labelled bay leaf from yesterday is yet to start working.
24 January 2020 – New Moon
Today started with me and the vet having an existential crisis over where the soul goes to when we’re in a coma, and is ending…