Catching the light

Plodding on through Covid isolation, still feeling slightly better each day - so that's not too bad.  Tomorrow will be day 5: I'll be able to do a lateral flow test, and see if it's negative. With two of those, on successive days,  I'll be able to get out again.  Fingers crossed.

Today I managed to put together a short Powerpoint presentation for tonight's Greek class. The assignment was to choose an example of a 'festival' in the UK, as the subject; not the Glastonbury kind, however, but something related to tradition and celebration.

Trawling the web in an attempt to find something engaging, I came across 'Skipping Day' in Scarborough - a Shrove Tuesday event, with its roots in the half-day holiday once afforded to working people their in advance of Lent. No one else in our Zoom class lives in Yorkshire, so a regional example felt promising. There's some info on it here, with a few nice images:

http://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/article.php?article=699

So this was fun, as was a short scramble up the steep bank in the corner of our garden, to take a look at the tiny cyclamens flowering there. There are a few snowdrops poking their heads up too. I wasn't tempted to stay out long though; it still feels bitterly cold.