Today I have mostly been eating plum shuttles, because today is Plum Shuttle Day. It’s said that should a child knock on your door before sunrise on 14 February and shout ‘Good morrow Valentine!’ at you twice before you can stop them, you have to give them a shuttle or some money.
2 February 2020 – Candlemass
Today is Candlemass, which I mostly ignored except for sending out this tweet: In some parts of the country today is also known as Badgers’…
#FolkloreFOMO – February 2020
Welcome to February, a month of biting weather (this month’s Full Moon is not called the Snow, or Ice Moon for nothing), love (you have…
25 January 2020 – St Dwynwen’s Day
So I thought to myself, why not write a short love poem using Welsh bardic form? I mean, how difficult could it be? I’m thinking that my burnt clarity-labelled bay leaf from yesterday is yet to start working.
21 January 2020 – St Agnes' Day
Today I’m fasting for St Agnes. It’s said that if you fast between midnight on 20 January (St Agnes’ Eve) and midnight on 21 January…