Monday 1 June 2020

June Country Days

Before I start I must say Big Hello and Welcome to new followers. Hope you enjoy reading. Also thanks to everyone for comments. I really meant to reply but time just flew past!

The first  of June and the first day of meteorological summer, June was named after either the goddess Juno or from Iuniores - meaning young people. June is usually my favourite month of the year with Tennis on TV all month including Wimbledon and strawberries from the garden. This year my garden strawberry plants have shriveled up from the drought, but I think we will get a little tennis - although mostly of the "looking back" sort!


Here's another pretty illustrated page from a childrens book of the Sara Coleridge poem



 The mice are having a BBQ behind the wheelbarrow




June was such a busy time in the farming calendar that there was little time for festivals, not many special church days either so much of the folklore for June is centred around Midsummer Day. Good weather was needed for hay-making.


A calm June sets the farmer in tune
and
June damp and warm does the farmer no harm



This is the June page of events in the little Almanac book. It seems to have broadened into a list of all sorts of happenings - and most cancelled this year 



St Johns Day is the 24th

                        Before St Johns day we pray for rain; and after then we get it anyway



(What a faff it is with this new blogger to put pictures on here and change the size, and to centre things, what was once a one click operation now takes three or four!...............although when written like that it sounds slightly pathetic as there is plenty of time for clicking nowadays)

Back Tomorrow
Sue

25 comments:

  1. Good morning Sue! It feels odd to look at the June diary and realise that the Trooping of the Colour and the Olympics won't happen. I just turned over the calendar to the new month, realising (again) that I have no events to write in. What strange times these are. And yes I agree with you, the new Blogger format is complicated. After 12½ years I may have to abandon my beloved Trebuchet font because it is so unpredictable. But as you say, we do have a bit more time to wrestle with it. And in the great scheme of things, centring the text and altering a font doesn't compare with fighting the injustice in the world this morning.

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    1. Everything that's happening all around the world is very frightening and worrying. No idea how it all will end

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  2. I haven't tried it yet, I keep putting it off.(The new blogger)

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  3. The new Blogger format has not come my way yet. No doubt I'll cope when it does. Another lovely day by the looks of things.

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    1. Tackle blogger head on - Press That Button!

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    2. No point, I'll just wait for them to do it.

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  4. My tulips have been and gone. Does this mean that the country books and lore need updating?

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  5. We enjoyed Sankt Hans (St John's) Dag in Denmark a few years ago - huge festival with bonfires and dancing. It's a really important celebration around most of the Baltic countries. COVID aside we seem to have lost much of that sort of thing in urban Britain.

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    1. They had much more fun with celebrations here in the past. Nothing in the diary here for 2020 seems so sad

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  6. I tried the new blogger format and even mastered putting photos on it all by myself. I found it took longer for the posts to appear on blog follower lists so I went back to the old format.

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    1. Hadn't noticed that about follower lists. Certainly takes longer to change photo sizes - all this is supposedly to make it easier for writing posts on a phone - wonder if it really is.

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  7. There are some beautifully illustrated children's books available.

    Don't get me started on the new blogger, not only the issues with photos, I can't keep my font constant throughout.

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    1. Haven't had any problems with fonts - that's probably still to come!

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  8. There is a revert to classic blogger option bottom left on the menu page.

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  9. I wonder if the Appleby Horse Fair will still go on, the Police always have trouble controlling arrivals anyway, I wonder if they will respect social distancing rules, I doubt it. I have a friend who lives in Appleby and the locals don't like it at all, over a week of nailing down everything that could be taken.

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  10. It is always interesting to see what you write about a new month and special days!

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  11. I like the artwork in that book. Thanks for sharing that.

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  12. Can you let us know what the almanac book is please and who wrote it .

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  13. Confused. Always thought 21st June Midsummers eve? Our wedding Anniversary. Our Party after the wedding had everyone in costume. Must see if I can put up the photos from then.

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  14. Midsummer Day is June 24. My mother was married on that day. I have never heard of anything called Midsummer's Eve Jill. The first day of Summer is 21st June though.

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    1. Actually I note the Summer Solstice is 20th June this year, the longest day.

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  15. Talking of the new blogger format I have been using it for some time but have discovered that it doesn't like publishing photos. I find that I have to publish once the press publish a second time back on the dashboard before it actually comes through.

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