'All hail to the Moon, all Hail to thee I prithee good moon, reveal to me This Night who my Husband (or Wife) must be' Say to the years 1st new moon to dream of your true love John Aubrey 1695 #johnaubrey #folklore #17thcentury #newmoon #newyearmoon #dreaming

St Bride's Day. On this day Gille Brighde, the 'servants of Bride', appear bringing with them spring in all its glory. They are also known as Oystercatchers and long ago, Sea-pye. #stbride #stbridget #spring #oystercatchers #tradition #gillebrighde #seabirds

Today is Candlemas, a festival of light in the lengthening days of early spring. An Anglo-Saxon sermon for this ancient and beautiful feast, when 'þæt soðe Leoht, Crist, wæs geboren to þam temple' ('the true Light, Christ, was borne to the temple'): aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2012/01/lfric-…

There ain’t nothing like a dame! #pantomime #cinderella #uglysisters #tradition #nothinlikeadame #slapstick #matinee

Claricia was a 13th-century German illuminator. Nothing is known about her life, but she is noted for a tiny self-portrait in a psalter of c. 1200, in which she depicts herself as swinging from the tail of a letter Q., with her name inscribed over her head. #WomenYouDeserveToKnow

Old friends meet, sup dandelion coffee and mull over the woodland gossip. It’s late spring, twilight stretches out long and gently towards night. Food for foragers is plentiful and there is time to enjoy the scents of the growing meadow grasses and late spring flowers.

From the apple growing county of Worcestershire comes a Georgian dish - Malvern Pudding. This is a caramelised sugar topped apple pudding with a creamy custard filling flavoured with cinnamon. In 2010 was said to be one of the ten most "threatened puddings". #FolkloreSunday

Walk in the Bronze Age at Mitchell’s Fold where a witch was turned to stone (the old tales say a giant) & warriors sleep under hills of lead & stone #mitchellsfold #shropshirefolkore #bronzeage #folklore #whitegrit #giantcountry

Tomorrow is St Vitus's Day, an early martyr from southern Italy. Amongst from epilepsy & nervous diseases he is also patron saint of dancers, actors & mummers... #stvitus #earlysaints #patronsaints #dancers

Crab Apple Vodka made from the fruits of an ancient tree at the lovely Heath Chapel in Shropshire. Shame I can’t give mary beard a bottle as I understand its her favourite building #heathchapel #crabappplevodka #homebrew

'Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions' #OTD 1881 Mary Webb was born in Leighton, Shropshire. Famous for her romantic novels & poems. #Shrewsbury

I live in Sadiq Khan's London & the doorbell just rang twice. First, a neighbour asking if she could take a sprig of our rosemary as she uses it to keep her blood pressure down. Then another asking if I could help open a jar of Calpol. It's an absolute hellscape out there.

Easter Even and all was quiet in the Sheep Church. It smelt of damp wool and damp plaster, of a faint amber linger of myrrh and the mud of the rain-eddied fields and the blackthorn which edged the paths from the Sea Road. The distant calls of herring gulls and the sweet song of a

The liminality of Canals. Hacked out of cold clay, deep channels of water between earth & sky, conduit’s through an indifferent landscape. The more time I spend on canal the more engaged I am by their essence of the in between #canals #navigators #liminality #canalboats #borders

Bricks. Iron. Water. Georgian architecture meeting nature at Bratch locks S Staffs. Towpath now smooth with the passage of boot clog hoof & paw…echoes of past lives #bratchlocks #southstaffs #canalarchitecture #pastlives #navigators #Georgianarchitecture #18thcentury #canals

Heron. Waiting.

A wonderful arrival from Karin Celestine (and the Hare) updates only...thank you! A beautiful book with the most excellent addition of tricksy foxes. Midsummer customs described by Pamela Thom-Rowe, published by Graffeg

How timeless is this - the medieval walls of Ludlow Castle seen from Whitcliffe in a view that has barely changed across the centuries. I spotted the birds circling overhead and spent a pleasant half-hour waiting for them to fill the skies before taking my shot. #Shropshire

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An ethereal view from the Stiperstones at sunrise. I was standing on Habberley Rocks for this shot and watched as features swirled in and out of the misty landscape. The countryside below me was once home to ‘Mad' Jack Mytton, the eccentric 19th century squire #Shropshire