Today my challenge nearly brought me down. It’s all sorts of days today. It’s St George’s Day, it’s Shakespeare’s birth and death day, it’s World…
22 April 2020 – Earth Day
Today I torched some tissue paper to the strains of Gloria Estafan singing Dr Beat on Radio 2. Coincidence or cosmic convergence? You be the judge. It’s…
19 April 2020 – Quasimodo Sunday
Today’s adventure in folklore was difficult to pin down even though it’s Low Sunday, aka Little Easter Sunday, aka Hock Sunday, aka Balaam’s Ass Day,…
18 April 2020 – The Heffle Cuckoo Fair
Today I’ve been making a feather. A cuckoo feather. Because today was the date of the Heffle Cuckoo Fair, Heffle or Hefful, being the old…
17 April 2020 – The Friday Before Hocktide
Today I learnt that macaroni cheese, aka macrows, aka maccherone, has been around in England since c.1390. And that I suck at making it. It’s…