It being St Nicholas’ Day, I was going to put my tree up, as it’s said St Nick was the precursor to Father Christmas. Having…
25 November 2020 – St Catherine’s Day
Even though I could have been setting fire to wheels tied up with straw; making Cattern cakes, Cattern pies, or wiggs; drinking a delightfully sounding…
28 October 2020 – St Simon and St Jude’s Day
Not one, not two, but three calendar customs collided today. And seeing as I was curious, hungry, and wet, I tried them all. First the…
16 October 2020 – Spring Prediction
Two bits of coincidentally intertwined weatherlore today. The first, it was a fine(ish), if nippy day today, just as last night’s rainbow predicted. Folklore for…
15 October 2020 – Rainbow
I was going to write Virgil a poem in hexameter to celebrate his 2090th birthday but then I saw a rainbow. Rainbows are tricky things, and…