Today, despite setting my alarm, there was a marked absence of frost. But while the Devil has been lax in his promises, meet the gang, cos the boys are here!
17 May 2020 – Rogation Sunday
Today I have been smearing mashed turnip on my feet. It’s Rogation Sunday, the start of Rogationtide which lasts until Wednesday. And Rogationtide was when…
12 May 2020 – Old May Day Eve
Continuing the legume theme, today I planted me some kidney beans. It’s the second Tuesday in May, aka St Pancras’ Day, aka the day of…
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,…
#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…