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Recipes by Liz Woods
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8 May: Helston Flora Day8 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 DaysWe 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"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‘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'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'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‘.....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‘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.‘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… |
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30th June: The Annual Service of the Knights of St John of JerusalemI feel the north breeze chill as death; Let grateful love quell maiden… |
Jun 2010
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