Even though I could have been setting fire to wheels tied up with straw; making Cattern cakes, Cattern pies, or wiggs; drinking a delightfully sounding…
23 November 2020 – St Clement’s Day
A quick one today after extended shenanigans over the weekend. It’s St Clement’s Day, but unfortunately it being lockdown, there’s no Clementing processions, no firing…
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…
5 September 2020 – Dill
Before tonight, had someone told me to drink a cup of hot dill water, I probably would have told them where to shove it. But…
20 June 2020 – Solstice pt 1
Today I was hoisted by my own petard. It’s the summer solstice, the longest day of the year with a whopping 16 hours and 38…