I was cycling home from the health centre yesterday morning and when i passed the local nursery school, i saw that all the tots wee gathered in a circle around a diminutive, home-made phallic symbol doing the Small Frogs Dance.
It’s pure Wicker Man…
In the woods there grew a tree And a fine fine tree was he
And on that tree there was a limb And on that limb there was a branch
Midsummer Eve and the Midsummer Solstice is such a very big deal here in Sweden, that it’s easy to forget other places where Iit is celebrated. For example, the druids at Stonehenge. A Latvian pal, who grew up London has pointed out that it’s also an important occasion in her old home country. She remembers going to summer camp as a child and learning all the traditional songs. This weekend her family are going to a Midsummer pot luck at the Latvian Society in London.
Do you remember Tautumeitas, the all-girl, ethno pop sextet who were rather wonderful in Eurovision 2025? This year they are arranging, for the second year running, a solstice concert at the crack of dawn at the ancient Aizkraukle hillfort.
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