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Cakes of Peace, Magic Bread & Easter Wassails: Springtime Traditions of the Welsh Marches

Sat, April 16, 2022 Pamela Thom-Rowe Comments 0 Comment

By late March the weather was warmer and spring made herself known at Moon Brook Cottage, accompanied by cries of goshawks, chiffchaffs, skylarks and the promise of cookoo. Celandines, or star-flowers, cheered up the woods and moon-flowers, more commonly known today as wood anemones, graced the shadows and verges. It was then I was approached by BBC’s Countryfile program regarding ideas for their feature on Easter traditions of Herefordshire. Much is written concerning modern day Easter traditions and adaptations but…

Searching for the Invisible Past in the ‘Vivid Present’

Mon, March 21, 2022 Pamela Thom-Rowe Comments 0 Comment

“That vivid present of theirs, how faint it grows! The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow’s past.” Mary Webb, (Precious Bane, 1924) I am interested in the social and historical context of folk traditions. This may be difficult, if not impossible to determine yet the history of people who kept tradition alive is an integral part of my…

3. Five go down to the Cotswolds or ‘Of Lemonade and Kings Men’

Mon, June 17, 2019 Pamela Thom-Rowe Comments 0 Comment

September 2017 ‘In the Oxford country there are great stones, arranged as it were in some connection by the hand of man. But at what time this was done, or by what people, or for what memorial or significance, is unknown. Though by the inhabitants that place is called Rollendrith’ 14th century With Chris, David and two dogs, I made the long(ish) journey down to the Cotwolds to pick up my new Barefoot caravan – how excited was I? This…

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