Today, after a month of hiding it in a cupboard and shaking it daily, I finally opened the fire cider I started making on 17…
10 February 2020 – Dizzy
Today, as the vertigo has not gone, I’ve been up for trying folklore remedies for dizziness to see if I can’t speed up the process.…
8 February 2020 – Mint
Today I’ve been wandering around a hospital with mint strapped to my wrist because according to Lady Wilde, in Irish folklore, to prevent infection and…
17 January 2020 – Old Twelvey
Today is ‘Old Twelvey’. Remember all those Old New Years? Well, it’s now time for the Old Twelfth Nights. There was one yesterday and there’s…
16 January 2020 – Cold Remedies
Woke up feeling miserable, all upper-palatey and brick-chested. So obviously I asked Twitter what I should do. Or rather I asked the brilliant #FolkloreThursday crowd…