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Make England Merry Again

Our feasts were stolen from us. It’s time we took them back

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Jun 23, 2022
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Today is Midsummer’s Eve. There was once a time when people up and down the country would spend the evening around bonfires, drinking ale and generally being merry in that way I like to imagine medieval people. The whole community would get together and mark the passage of the longest evenings of the year before the arrival of the hot summer.

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