Midsummer night
Finnish midsummer night traditions.
Who'd have believed it? It's already midsummer! It seems like it was -20 C and 50 cm snow only a minute ago. Or well, a week. A month, at most. And here I have just bought netting for the windows to keep the wasps out ...
... anyway, here's a few midsummer night traditions.
Now, that's what I call practical thinking.
Then there's all the traditions with a big midsummer fire: in Finland this goes back hundreds of years, to one of the old gods, Ukko. If it's calm enough we'll have a midsummer fire, too, but it'll be much too large to jump over it.
Because traditions are cool I've done the 7 flowers thing almost every year. If I've dreamt of anybody I've managed to forget all about it before morning, though, every time.
... 'scuse the delay in
... 'scuse the delay in replying, I was busy running around naked... I'm back in town now, though.
Yargh, TA. That pun was
Yargh, TA. That pun was awful.