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8 May: Helston Flora Day

8 May: Helston Flora Day

8 May: Helston Flora Day‘And soon I heard such a bustling and prancing,And then I saw the whole village were dancing,In and out of the houses they…

May 2010
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10,11,12 May Beating the Bounds on Rogation Days

10,11,12 May Beating the Bounds on Rogation Days

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive at where we startedAnd…

May 2010
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23 May: Whitsun Ales

23 May: Whitsun Ales

"that at the high feast of Pentecost especially, afore al other high feasts in the yeare, he would not goe that day to meat until he had heard or…

May 2010
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29 May: Royal Oak Day

29 May: Royal Oak Day

‘Twenty ninth of MayRoyal Oak DayIf you don’t give us a holidayWe’ll all run away’Children’s Rhyme c1860Royal Oak Day commemorates the restoration…

May 2010
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1/2 June: Hardy and a Sheep Shearing Supper

1/2 June: Hardy and a Sheep Shearing Supper

'It was the first day of June, and the sheep-shearing season culminated, the landscape, even to the leanest…

Jun 2010
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13 June: 'Goodnight Vienna'

13 June: 'Goodnight Vienna'

From Barbara Pym’s Diary 13 June 1932‘I had a note from Rupert and Miles asking me to go the the flicks. I dashed to Carfax at 7.30 and we went to…

Jun 2010
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7 June: Elder Blossom

7 June: Elder Blossom

‘.....And on the hollow, once a chalk pit, butNow brimmed with nut and elder-flower so clean. The men leaned on their rakes, about to begin, But…

Jun 2010
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16 June: Bloomsday

16 June: Bloomsday

‘God made food; the devil made cooks.’David Garrick as quoted in 'Ulysses' by James Joyce (1882-1941)Bloomsday is a celebration held on 16 June,…

Jun 2010
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23rd June: St John's Eve.

23rd June: St John's Eve.

‘When midsummer comes, with bavens and bromes they do bonefires make,and swiftly then, the young men runne leapinge over the same.The women and…

Jun 2010
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30th June: The Annual Service of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem

30th June: The Annual Service of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem

I feel the north breeze chill as death; Let grateful love quell maiden…

Jun 2010
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