So this is going to be super quick as it’s brass monkeys where I’m sitting. It’s Jim Henson’s birthday today, and I cannot overstate how…
25 August 2020 – Detectives’ Day
The day was wet and unpleasant like being slapped on the thigh with a day-old fish. Outside the wind swung off the tree branches and…
#FolkloreFOMO – August 2020
I completely forgot to say pinch punch this morning as I was too busy swearing at the alarm I’d forgotten to cancel. Welcome to month…
31 July 2020 – Lammas Eve
It’s Lughnasadh tomorrow, making it Lammas Eve today, to mix my cultural references. ‘Lammas Eve’ isn’t particularly a thing unless you’re hanging up rowan (which…
27 July 2020 – The Grete Herball
Today did not go as planned. On this day in 1526, The grete herball whiche geueth parfyt knowledge and vnderstanding of all maner of herbes [and]…