It’s Michaelmas. Michaelmas used to be an important day in the ritual year but is rarely marked nowadays bar a couple of mop fairs still…
13 September 2020 – The Ides of September
The whole place smells of mixed spice. And I am in heaven. Today I’ve been making Suffolk fourses cakes, which are less like cakes, and…
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…
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…
4 September 2020 – National Fish and Chips Day
Because what I really wanted to do at the end of a busy week was make a fish and chip supper from scratch with extras.…