There’s a strange bit of weatherlore today, for according to Maypoles, Martyrs & Mayhem, it’s said that September 15th ‘will be fine, six years out of seven’…
14 September 2020 – The Devil’s Nutting Day
Have you ever wondered why the knobs on the cords of your blinds are often acorn shaped? No me neither, not a second thought. But…
12 September 2020 – Newent Onion Fayre
Well. I’m never doing that again. It’s the Newent Onion Fayre in Gloucestershire today, or it would have been blah, blah, blah. The annual Newent…
8 September 2020 – Star Trek Day
It’s Star Trek Day as the first ever episode of the TV show aired on 8 September 1966. And I’ve been learning Klingon. There are…
7 September 2020 – Abbots Bromley Horn dance
I may have eaten more than a small quantity of grease proof paper today. As it’s the Monday after the first Sunday after Old St…