So it’s Fat Tuesday – that’s what Mardi Gras means. What a great name. Traditionally it marks the last day of the ‘carnaval’ period that began at Epiphany and which ends with Lent (Carême). Quite who would have been celebrating all that while I’m not sure. Certainly not the ordinary people who would have been [...]
Here are a few wise old sayings from the February 1932 edition of La Prosperite a la Campagne:
Chandeleur noire – hiver a fait son devoir.
Chandeleur trouble – l’hiver redouble.
Black Candlemas – winter has finished its work.
Unsettled Candlemas – winter will redouble its efforts.
(I guess that by ‘black’ candlemas it means cloudy and not snowy. Candlemas [...]