I was in the hardware megastore the other day and they were already flogging Christmas stuff.
Since some people like to have Christmas in July, why can't we have Oestrus in spring?
Easter is the Sunday after the first full moon following the equinox.
That would be October 1st this year.
Anybody want to chase bunnies?

It's coming up to that time of year again.
Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox this year will be October 20

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Mr Milk said..
It's coming up to that time of year again.
Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox this year will be October 20

I used to enjoy getting 'day pissed', but it didn't work out. I began getting these strange parcels from ebay in the mail weeks later.

After I received a bug-a-salt gun in the mail I decided to reduced my alcohol intake. Just saying it was a sign: I needed to refrain from getting 'day pissed' then browsing ebay and buying fab stuff from the aldi catalog.

These days, when I unwind, I'm a lot more like you, I just double post random thoughts or just reply to idiotic posts on Seabreeze.

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Mr Milk said..
Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox this year will be October 20

21st October is Trafalger Day, to honour Lord Nelson the great victory over the French and Spanish.

And the 29th is Punky Night. Not to be confused with the festival of Samhain or All Hallows Eve on the 31st.

This tradition goes back over 100 years, when it is said that the men from Hinton travelled to the fair at the nearby village of Chiselborough. When they didn't return as promised, the women of the village went looking for their husbands with mangold lanterns. A mangold is a crop grown by farmers for cattle feed - a cross between a turnip and a pumpkin. The women pulled these up from the fields, carved them out and put candles in them to shed light, and then walked the four miles to Chiselborough, in search of their drunken husbands.To commemorate the event local children still hollow out their mangolds, carving designs or faces onto the outside. In the evening candles are lit and the punky's are paraded through the village.

That's some amazing cross fertilisation going on there. Turnip is brassica, pumpkin cucurbita. They're not even in the same family.

I have always known them as mangelwurzels.

But the folks down Hilton St George way are a bit weird.



Which reminds me - why do so many place names in that general area have multiple words in them.

I remember many years ago trying to explain to somebody on the phone that the location of a particular place was about half way between Haselbury Plucknett and Huish Episcopi. Didn't matter what I said, they thought I was taking the mickey.

If you don't believe me that there is a place called Huish-Epsicopi, then hang a right at Brympton D'Evercy and head towards Stoke-sub-Hamden. Before you get to Shepton Beauchamp hand another right, straight through Kingsbury Episcopi, and you'll find Huish Episcopi just past Mulcheny Ham.

If you are in Nether Compton or Curry Rivel then you are completely lost.

Some local breweries will be trying to flog Octoberfest too. In the antipodes we should be enjoying April Ales instead.