Through the year on the first of each month, I thought I would share some of the lovely illustrations from my book "A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours" by Carry Akroyd and John Newman.
My garden is probably too small to ever have a Green Woodpecker visit but I do see one over the road in the new part of the burial ground. The grass was cut there last Autumn and the woodpecker swoops in with his up and down flight and pecks around for a while. It's too far away for a good view but I know its a Green Woodpecker by it's flight and size.
Most of the weather sayings for February are warnings that winter hasn't gone which is why farmers through time have always been told........
In the barn on Candlemas Day
Should be half the straw and half the hay
Two old weather sayings for February 2nd.............
If Candlemas Day be mild and gay,
Go saddle your horses and buy them hay
But if Candlemas Day be stormy and black
It carries the winter on it's back
If Candlemas Day be fair and bright
Winter will take another flight
If Candlemas Day be cloud and rain
Winter is gone and will not come again.
Beware of a mild February......
A February spring is not worth a pin
According to one book I have, the following is a Somerset proverb - hoping for a good crop for the cider.
If by the 10th the snowdrops are out,
More snow throughout the month without a doubt.
If the sun shines on St. Eulalie's Day,
Tis good for apples and cider they say
There is no Saint Eulalie in my book of Saints but a Saint Eulalia is celebrated on December 10th. There are at least two villages called Sainte-Eulalie in France so it's a puzzle how the weather saying came about.
February can be colder than January if we get East winds and snow, but hopefully any snow will soon go as the sun, when it shines, starts to have a bit of warmth in it.
In Celtic tradition 1st Feb is Imbolc - the festival celebrating lambing time and ewes producing milk and the Anglo-Saxons also made offerings of cakes through the month which they called Solmonath.
I wonder what February will hold for us in 2022, personally I'm looking forward to watching the Winter Olympics, The 6 Nations Rugby and a new crime drama called The Chelsea Detective on TV and maybe getting a few early seeds into the propagator at the end of the month.
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