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I’ve written on today about the incredible Minack Theatre garden in Cornwall, on Scribehound. Sea, sand, Shakespeare an...
04/08/2025

I’ve written on today about the incredible Minack Theatre garden in Cornwall, on Scribehound. Sea, sand, Shakespeare and salvias. Find the link in my bio or via my stories.

The August episode of As the Season Turns, my podcast with .co, is out now! The podcast is a glimpse into the month ahea...
01/08/2025

The August episode of As the Season Turns, my podcast with .co, is out now! The podcast is a glimpse into the month ahead, in the skies, on the land, in folklore and foraging.
And…introducing your excellent contributors…there’s me, author of The Almanac, , podcast musician-in-residence, and Zoe Gilbert, folklorist and forager.
In this episode we refresh ourselves by the sea, search for giants, celebrate the leavings of summer storms in the orchard, and brandish hazel wands in the lengthening twilight, and Sam sings the latest in his reimaginings of folk songs through the year, ‘Up a Wild and Lonely Glen’, recorded especially for As the Season Turns listeners.
Find it wherever you find your podcasts, I hope you love it 🎶🎧🌳🌙🌾

🍉🌾🌻August 🌻🌾🍉1 - Lammas/Lughnasadh 🍞🍒9 - Full Grain Moon 🌝🌾12 - Close approach of Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest p...
01/08/2025

🍉🌾🌻August 🌻🌾🍉

1 - Lammas/Lughnasadh 🍞🍒
9 - Full Grain Moon 🌝🌾
12 - Close approach of Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets ✨
12-13 - Perseid meteor shower 💫
16 - Krishna Janmashtami - birth of Krishna 🕉️
24-25 - Notting Hill Carnival, London
27 - Ganesh Chaturthi - birth of Ganesh 🐘🕉️
28 - Publication day - The Almanac 2026! 📖 🎉

Wishing you a warm, mellow August, from The Almanac 2025. Illustration by

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Great news! The Almanac 2026 is out at the end of next month and is part of summer pre-order 25% off deal, which starts...
28/07/2025

Great news! The Almanac 2026 is out at the end of next month and is part of summer pre-order 25% off deal, which starts today. Order online at Waterstones.com or on the Waterstones app between now and 11.59 Thursday night using pre-order code SUMMER25 to receive your discount.

St Swithin’s Day if it does rain, for forty days it shall remain,St Swithin’s Day if it be fair, for forty day t’will ra...
15/07/2025

St Swithin’s Day if it does rain, for forty days it shall remain,
St Swithin’s Day if it be fair, for forty day t’will rain no more

One of our best known pieces of weather lore has some truth behind it - whatever the weather is during mid-July it tends to continue on in this pattern for the next month or so. Let’s see if we get a little rain today… 🌧️

From my book, The Almanac

🌑🌒🌓🌔🌝🌖🌗🌘🌑Your moon phases for July, running up to the Hay Moon or Mead Moon on the 10th🌝🍯 🐝🌾🌝Information from my book, T...
08/07/2025

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Your moon phases for July, running up to the Hay Moon or Mead Moon on the 10th

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Information from my book, The Almanac 2025
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🪷🌺🌳JULY🌳🌺🪷10 - Full Mead Moon 🌝 12/13 - Wimbledon Women’s/Men’s Finals 🎾 15 - St. Swithin’s Day ⛈️ 16 - Close approach o...
01/07/2025

🪷🌺🌳JULY🌳🌺🪷

10 - Full Mead Moon 🌝
12/13 - Wimbledon Women’s/Men’s Finals 🎾
15 - St. Swithin’s Day ⛈️
16 - Close approach of the moon and Saturn 🪐
23 - Birthday of Haile Selassie
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The excitement of spring and midsummer is behind us and now we settle in into mellow, green July, the month when it feels like summer could last forever (spoiler alert…).
Picture and dates are from my book, The Almanac 2025. Illustration is by

🌞Happy summer solstice! 🌞 The longest day and the shortest night of the year. We are HERE.The solstice fell today at 03....
21/06/2025

🌞Happy summer solstice! 🌞 The longest day and the shortest night of the year. We are HERE.
The solstice fell today at 03.41am, the moment that the sun was directly above the Tropic of Cancer, the northernmost point that it can be directly overhead.
This is the high point of the year here in the northern hemisphere, and - joy! - the sun is shining to fit the occasion.
Get outside and soak up some solstice rays today 🌞 Happy solstice from me and The Almanac xx

Tomorrow is midsummer! And in my monthly column I have written about the magic and flowers of midsummer, plus my usual ...
20/06/2025

Tomorrow is midsummer! And in my monthly column I have written about the magic and flowers of midsummer, plus my usual monthly lunar gardening run down.
Find the link in my bio or via my stories. Your first read is free!
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Your moon phases for June - a SPECIAL full moon tonight🌑🌒🌓🌔🌝This moon’s fullest moment fell this morning and so both las...
11/06/2025

Your moon phases for June - a SPECIAL full moon tonight
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This moon’s fullest moment fell this morning and so both last night’s and tonight’s moons are very full indeed. And this is a full moon worth catching as this is a ‘lunar standstill’ year, the zenith of the moon’s 18.6 year cycle, when the moon swings through the sky on its most extreme arcs, high and low in the sky.
This is the only full moon that coincides with this low arc.
There is LOTS more explanation of this (and it’s link to the stone circles in our landscapes, including Callanish and Stonehenge) in The Almanac 2025, but the long and short of it is that tonight’s full moon will take its lowest possible arc through the sky, staying close to the horizon all night, and more extreme the further north you are. Because of the ‘moon illusion’ which makes us perceive the moon as larger when it’s close to the horizon, it will look huge and beautiful.
If you kept reading to the end of all that, well done and thank you! And let me know if you spotted it last night. I looked out at about 2am and couldn’t believe how low it was, just spectacular all night.
Wishing you clear skies!
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June’s edition of As the Season Turns, my podcast with .co is out now!In it we stroll from meadow to woodland to orchard...
01/06/2025

June’s edition of As the Season Turns, my podcast with .co is out now!
In it we stroll from meadow to woodland to orchard, meeting nightjars, sparking bonfires, and stumbling across a truly adorable mammal of the month, and and his band perform the beautiful midsummer hymn ‘Abroad for Pleasure’.
Find it wherever you find your podcasts and like and subscribe for it to pop up at the beginning if every month.

🌸🌹🌞 JUNE 🌞🌹🌸1 - Start of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month 1 - Pride month begins 🏳️‍🌈 1-3 - Feast of Weeks/Shavuo...
01/06/2025

🌸🌹🌞 JUNE 🌞🌹🌸
1 - Start of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month
1 - Pride month begins 🏳️‍🌈
1-3 - Feast of Weeks/Shavuot ✡️
4-9 - Hajj, Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca ☪️
7-8 - Appleby Horse Fair 🐎
8 - Whit Sunday/Pentecost ✝️
15 - Father’s Day 👨
21 - Summer solstice 🌞
21 - World Humanist Day
25 - St John’s Day/traditional midsummer day
26 - Al Hijra/Islamic New Year 1447 ☪️

It’s JUNE! What a big, busy, beautiful month. Summer is really here.
Info is from my book, The Almanac 2025, and pic is of the opener to the June chapter, with beautiful illustration by

Have a wonderful June!

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