Martinmas, Martlemas, St Martin’s Day, Martinalia, Bacchus, The Feast of Gut-puddings, and a lot of repeated weatherlore…
Tag: Birds
I might have slightly overdone it yesterday with the old folklore. I managed 7½ out of my 11 Halloween tasks, and…
I’ve been torturing the cat today with Eurasian great tits (not a euphemism). It’s St Francis’ Day, and while the saint…
Today I’ve been making a feather. A cuckoo feather. Because today was the date of the Heffle Cuckoo Fair, Heffle or…
Today I’ve been going cuckoo. Or at least trying to. Today is St Tiburtius’ Day, aka First Cuckoo Day, which kind…
Today was all about the weather. Remember at the beginning of the month when the weather was all about coming in…