Today I’ve been life drawing. And it was an unexpectedly joyous evening. I’m faintly embarrassed as I’m supposed to be a writer and yet I’m…
3 February 2020 – St Blaise's Day
Today is St Blaise’s Day. St Blaise is the patron saint of woolcombers for the slightly ghoulish reason he died while being pulled apart by…
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’…
31 January 2020 – St Brigid’s Eve
Bumper edition today with not one, not two, but three traditions to celebrate St Brigid’s Eve and Imbolc.
19 January 2020 – Haggis Hunting
There is something quite delightful about making my adult friends compete for root vegetables in the name of folklore…