Market Square…

I couldn’t think of anything I could blip relating to solstice so I climbed the steps and took as wide a pic as possible of Market Square.
I was going to use A square peg in a round hole as my saying of the day but have an inkling I’ve given it before. Time to get another spreadsheet on the go;-).
So I will try ‘while the cat’s away the mice will play’.
If you thought this phrase comes from the ‘Tom and Jerry’ cartoon, you’d be wrong – it’s far, far older than that.

The phrase ‘While the cat’s away the mice will play’ is derived from a mediaeval Latin proverb, which is ‘Dum felis dormit, mus gaudet et exsi litantro’. The literal translation from Latin to English is ‘When the cat sleeps, the mouse leaves its hole, rejoicing’.
The phrase is first seen in the English language in around 1470 AD. It was also used by Shakespeare himself in his play ‘Henry the Fifth’ in the year 1599 AD.