Hilaria

Hilaria - a festival of joy celebrated annually in ancient Rome on this date after the vernal equinox*. Festivities closed with a ceremony of washing believed to promote fertility. This event turns out to be tripley pertinent to today, as:

• Spring has arrived in the garden: my first daffodil is out, and there are primroses in the lawn;
• Going out to dinner tonight, thereby covering the no doubt obligatory carousing parts of the festival;
• Bought a shiny new Big Blue Beast of a vacuum cleaner. This may not sound exciting, but when you've had a crappy little cylinder affair for years, and no bags for it for months, hoovering suddenly becomes fun and I can see the colour of the carpet again. Got so overenthusiastic I mopped the kitchen floor an' all. Phew.

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* Everyday Wicca, Gerina Dunwich