posted by sooyup
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Daily trivia,
Photographing Emm
Today is May Day. Nothing to do with off-shore rescue. And Emma has ignored her mother’s advice, and removed her vest and liberty-bodice already. “Ne’er cast a clout till May be out.” was the warning the old girl gave at this time of the year. She wasn’t to know that the saying referred, not to the ending of the month, but to the opening of the May-flower (the blossom of the hawthorn tree). And when my future wife and sweetheart was dancing round the May-pole in her gymslip and ankle-socks singing “Here we go gathering nuts in May,” she was making a similar mistake. Nuts? In May? There are none. She should have been singing “knots of May” - posies of May-flower. Little Emma was too young and innocent to know what she knows now: that May-flowers smell strongly of semen! Although the May-flower is closely associated with May Day, it flowers in the middle of the month not on the first. This is due to the change made to the Gregorian calendar in 1752. Until them May Day would have occurred eleven days later. Perhaps global warming will get the two events in sync again.
Today is May Day. Nothing to do with off-shore rescue. And Emma has ignored her mother’s advice, and removed her vest and liberty-bodice already. “Ne’er cast a clout till May be out.” was the warning the old girl gave at this time of the year. She wasn’t to know that the saying referred, not to the ending of the month, but to the opening of the May-flower (the blossom of the hawthorn tree). And when my future wife and sweetheart was dancing round the May-pole in her gymslip and ankle-socks singing “Here we go gathering nuts in May,” she was making a similar mistake. Nuts? In May? There are none. She should have been singing “knots of May” - posies of May-flower. Little Emma was too young and innocent to know what she knows now: that May-flowers smell strongly of semen! Although the May-flower is closely associated with May Day, it flowers in the middle of the month not on the first. This is due to the change made to the Gregorian calendar in 1752. Until them May Day would have occurred eleven days later. Perhaps global warming will get the two events in sync again.
