Yet again I forgot to say white rabbits when I woke up. You’d think, seeing this is month ten of The Everyday Lore Project, I…
29 September 2020 – Michaelmas
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…
23 September 2020 – Counting Stars
Well, I had something completely different planned for today, but then I made the fatal error of double checking my sources. Unfortunately, I found my…
21 August 2020 – Mona Lisa
Today marks the anniversary of the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum, Paris in 1911. Some say the heister, or heisters, hid in a…
20 August 2020 – St Philibert’s Day
Well that was possibly the worst night’s sleep I’ve had in a long time. I woke from multiple dreams containing multiple potential suitors, but the…