31/10/2025
Oooh, it's the witchy time!
Happy Samhain, happy Halloween everyone.
From today, the 31st until November 2nd we celebrate our movement into the dark months.
It is a time to honour our ancestors and they say it is the time that the veil between worlds is at its most transparent.
Hence the connection with the spirit world and beyond.
Honour it with lighting candles & bonfires.
As kids we always did duck apple....a tradition that seems to have faded away.
We would have buckets of freezing cold water filled with bobbing apples. Wet, messy and only for the brave, but fun!
And there was always a bonfire with tin foiled baked potatoes to warm you afterwards.
For those wanting to stay dry, a race to eat apples suspended from string was the order of play....even harder!
So whether you celebrate with apples, bonfires, candlelight or trick or treating, mark this time, think of those you care about and those who have come before you.
And most of all embrace the dark winter months - it's gonna be a long one folks!
Peace x
