Today I’ve been making cheese. Well, fake cheese. It’s Old May Day* the traditional start to the cheese making season. And blessed are the cheese…
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…
11 May 2020 – Taking Tea With A Druid
Today I’ve been taking Tea with a Druid. Every Monday night at 8pm, the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids do a short live broadcast…
10 May 2020 – Battledore and Shuttlefeathers
Today’s folklore started with an exorcism, continued with a missed knob-eating opportunity, and finished with some shuttlecock divination. Whoever said folklore was dull, was not…
9 May 2020 – Lemuralia
Today is another two-parter as the action takes place at midnight again. It’s Lemuralia, or Lemuria, an ancient Roman festival that takes place over three…