Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m pleased you stopped by today. This week we are working from a picture prompt. I have chosen the lovely one above and hereby call it herbal. My snippet is from a… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Herbal
Tag: medieval
Happy Hocktide: Kisses or Coins
The festival of Hocktide falls on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter Sunday. The name is thought to be derived either from the medieval meaning “high day” or the meaning “to bind.” Both are fitting, since Hocktide celebrates an auspicious occasion for the Saxons in 1002 A.C.E.– the day King Ethelred the Unready seized and devastated the Danes. Of course the marauding Danes… Continue reading Happy Hocktide: Kisses or Coins