Happy midsummer

[Shaker]

I'd light a bonfire for midsummer if I didn't have a pocket handkerchief of a garden 

[Brownie]

Ah well Shaker, you could go out onto the common or into the woods and do it there.  You might be arrested though.  Also you might not have woods or a common near you.

I will be away (all being well which is never certain), in a small Kentish seaside town, on my old man's birthday on 24th.  He'll be there too  , and our son.  Going on Thursday morning, coming back Saturday morning.  I don't know if Whitstable does anything for midsummer day, doubt it.

[Bubbles]

I'd light a bonfire for midsummer if I didn't have a pocket handkerchief of a garden 

A fire pit is brilliant if you have a small garden. Saves any mess and you can use the ash around any plants.

If you look up fire pit with Dutch oven you can even cook over it.

My husband is the expert on cooking on it, and also caters for vegetarian friends. Once he did this very mild vegetarian curry with bananas and it was delicious.

Well worth a try.

[Shaker]

Brownie: Enjoy your holiday.

Rose: Thanks for the tip.

[Bubbles]

http://www.burntrock.co.uk/Kadai+Cooking+Tripod+With+Chain+-+95cm/0_CAAA003/PRAA208.htm

We hang the Dutch oven off a tripod over the  fire pit.

 

[Brownie]

Sounds a very good idea, I was thinking of a barbecue too.

[Rhiannon]

I've been known to use a disposable barbecue in a small space. The foil can be recycled. Small collapsible camping barbecues are useful too. I put dried herb clippings on mine.

[Owlswing]

Well I hope you have a good one, midsummer 🍷

There is something about sitting around a fire outside.

 

I think gazing into a fire outside, in company,  is almost spiritual.

Especially after a few glasses of wine or mead 


I find it bonding and sort of spiritual 


Perhaps it's the cave woman in me 

Even the dog joins in by refusing to get close to the centre but prefers to sit sentry around us, he's a German shepherd and treats all the people there as his wards and he protects the boundaries.

There is something about a fire, and good company 

Even the dog goes into sentry mode 

Summer Solstice - June 20/21 is also my birthday -the one day I allow myself a few drops of mead!

[Brownie]

Mead sounds really good Owlswing, never had it but I imagine it doesn't taste of alcohol even though it is alcoholic.  I'd like that.

[Rhiannon]

Mead sounds really good Owlswing, never had it but I imagine it doesn't taste of alcohol even though it is alcoholic.  I'd like that.

Honey wine. Generally on the sweet side, can be spiced. But like a dessert wine. I like it.

[Brownie]

I like honey and I understand mead can be fruity which would be lovely, even if a bit too sweet.  Sounds very Elizabethan-ish.

[Owlswing]

I like honey and I understand mead can be fruity which would be lovely, even if a bit too sweet.  Sounds very Elizabethan-ish.

Elizabethan!

Hell NO! It is the oldest alchoholic drink known. Apparently because honey ferments naturally if it get warm.

It ranges from sweet to sickly sweet.

And, technically, it is not a wine though there are some 'meads' sold that are mead mixed with wine to take the sweetness edge off it.

[Rhiannon]

Now that's interesting, because I was told that technically it is a wine. I wanted to find out how to keep it once opened and that's what Google told me.

[Bubbles]

Summer Solstice - June 20/21 is also my birthday -the one day I allow myself a few drops of mead!

Happy Birthday for 20/21st.

 

[ad_orientem]

Happy St John Baptist day, Ad_O.  We celebrate it (low key of course, I'm sure most people don't know anything about it), next week on Friday 24th June.  It's my husband's birthday and he was named John because of it.  So for non-Orthodox, Midsummer Day is 24th. 

(I once saw "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Regent's Park on 24th June.  Many years ago.  It was lovely.
The guy who plays Elliott Hope in Holby was Bottom but then everyone was saying, "Is that Nigel from Eastenders?", and it was.)

(Are you FF ad_o?  I am VP - "Vix")

Yes, I'm FF.

[ad_orientem]

The OP was from last year, Brownie. I was hoping ad-o was posting again - haven't seen him for a while.

I've been having a break. Still don't see much here I fancy. The Christian board is still piss poor, spoilt by the usual subjects. Impossible to discuss anything there.

[Owlswing]

Happy Birthday for 20/21st.

 

Thanks

[Brownie]

It's good to see you albeit briefly, oh speedy one! 

[Shaker]

I wanted to find out how to keep it once opened

I've never found that a problem, personally

[Brownie]

Owlswing:

Elizabethan!

Hell NO! It is the oldest alchoholic drink known. Apparently because honey ferments naturally if it get warm.

Well Shakespearian then.  As in Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

I am now off to put my jar of honey in the microwave for a few seconds......hic, burp

[Owlswing]

Owlswing:

Elizabethan!

Hell NO! It is the oldest alchoholic drink known. Apparently because honey ferments naturally if it get warm.

Well Shakespearian then.  As is Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

I am now off to put my jar of honey in the microwave for a few seconds......hic, burp

Goes back, at least, to the Vikings!

[Brownie]

Goes back, at least, to the Vikings!

A rugged drink, no less.

[floo]

I think mid summer day is a bit depressing, it is downhill all the way until Christmas with the nights getting darker!

[Rhiannon]

I think mid summer day is a bit depressing, it is downhill all the way until Christmas with the nights getting darker!

This is one of the things that I like. I'd hate to be without the contrasts of the seasons.

[Brownie]

Me too and I love the autumn (as much as I love anything, hee hee), but I know how floo feels, I've heard others say the same.  A cousin of mine always dreads autumn and it's a genuine feeling that pulls her down.