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YESTERDAY:
Thursday, 29 July
TODAY:
Friday, 30 July
TOMORROW:
Saturday, 31 July
Seventeenth of Tammuz (Jewish)
Shiv'ah Asar b'Tammuz (Jewish)


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Midsummer Day

by Frann Leach

According to the traditional rhyme "A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon," so great efforts were once made to attract them at midsummer by banging on pots and pans… personally, I would have thought this would be more likely to drive them away, but what do I know?

Midsummer Day is one of the four quarter days used in England and Wales since the Middle Ages. The others are: Michaelmas (29 September), Christmas (25 December) and Lady Day (25 March).

Midsummer Day is not the same as Summer Solstice (which is sometimes called midsummer's day), the longest day of the year, which falls on or around 21st June in the Northern hemisphere and 21st December in the Southern hemisphere.

If you're looking for a way to commemorate this event, you might be interested in this article: Commemorations with Cross Stitch

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Frann ("Tiggsy") Leach is the webmistress and owner of Which Day and TheWebsiteDesign.co.uk. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.


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