St Swithin's Day

Today is St Swithin's Day. I like to mention it each year. You can read more about the day on the page here (with a lovely image), taken from What to Look for in Summer. If one is to believe the old tale, we are to have a sunny rest of summer. But it also reminds me that we are in the middle of summer and there is less of the season behind us than ahead of us. So I'm always carefully hopeful come St Swithin's Day.

Saint Swithin's Day

 Today is St Swithin's Day. A day I have started mentioning on this blog, first in 2016, then more in recent years. We are practically midway through summer and just for that reason, it is worth bringing it up. Also because I like the folklore associated to the day. It helps me keep patient until the season is finally over. I hope you don't mind me sharing the same picture I shared in 2022, taken from What to Look for in Summer. It is one of Wolfie's books, although I read it more than he does.

St Swithin's Day

 You may remember last year that I blogged about What to Look for in Summer, a book I bought at the local bookshop for Wolfie. The book taught him (and me) a lot of things about the season, among other things that today is St Swithin's Day. Today, according to folklore, we will know if summer will carry on and be hotand sunny, or will slowly dwindle and be cool and rainy. Anyway, you can read about it on the picture left. A part of me kind of dreads St Swithin's Day, but I do like the folklore associated to it.