Tag: Folklore Rules

10 August 2020 / The Everyday Lore Project

10 August 2020 – St Lawrence’s Day

There’s dissent in the folklore world over the origins of the expression ‘Lazy Lawrence’ – to behave in a sluggardly or…

16 July 2020 / The Everyday Lore Project

It’s a day full of Other Life, so another very quick one. I ate an apple. It’s said that until St…

11 July 2020 / The Everyday Lore Project

It’s St Benedict’s Day today, and St Benedict was a stickler for rules. In fact he wrote a book about rules…

24 June 2020 / The Everyday Lore Project

Today I butchered a rose in the name of love and folklore science only to realise at the end, I’d gone…

22 June 2020 / The Everyday Lore Project

Today I’ve tried to be funny. It’s the 39th anniversary of John McEnroe’s epic meltdown in his first round game against Tom…