ST JOHN's FIRE

24th June 2011 - on my Kitchen table! Friday we had pizza and baked potatoe chips with garlic and rosemary. We ate it fast and I forgot to take photos so trust me the children loved it! ( We had little friends with us!)



St John's day in Italy is very memorable with fireworks that you watch from the shore on to the sea, it is truly spectacular!

This is an excract from Wikipedia:

The celebration of Midsummer's Eve was from ancient times linked to the summer solstice. Some people believed that mid-summer plants, especially Calendula, had miraculous healing powers and they therefore picked them on this night. Bonfires were lit to protect against evil spirits which were believed to roam freely when the sun was turning southwards again. In later years, witches were also thought to be on their way to meetings with other powerful beings.
In Sweden, Mid-summer celebration originates from the time before Christianity; it was celebrated as a sacrifice time in the sign of the fertility^{[citation needed]}.
The solstice itself has remained a special moment of the annual cycle of the year since Neolithic times^{[citation needed]}. The concentration of the observance is not on the day as we reckon it, commencing at midnight or at dawn, as it is customary for cultures following lunar calendars tend place the beginning of the day on the previous eve at dusk at the moment when the Sun has set.


I do certainly feel like being outdoors more at this time of the year and really worship the sun! I am almost 'allergic' to indoors!
So that is it for now as I am itching to get out and about and enjoying dancing with the fairies!