Two and a smidgen months to go! We’re now entering the eleventh month of the project, and no-one is more surprised than me to find…
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…
12 October 2020 – St Wilfred’s Day
My book said the weatherlore on St Wilfred’s Day is a trifle boring. But frankly, I find there’s nothing dull about standing on the pavement…