Midsummer
Trug to the garden
A trug ride to the garden yesterday evening…
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flowers and greenery
….to collect flowers and greenery…
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Snip and tie
…which were snipped and lashed to crossed poles!
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Circlets
Two little circles of greenery were tied to the ends of the cross pieces…
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Ready?
…then it was time…
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Dance
…to dance around the midsummer pole!!
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Dream
And, if a maiden picks seven different wildflowers and puts them under her pillow on Midsummer Eve, she might dream of the person she will marry!
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Quimper Hittys 
What a beautiful midsummer pole the Quimpers made. A day for dancing barefoot in the long grass and dreaming of future abundance. Happy Midsummer.
Thanks! We were happy that we were able to make ourselves a midsummer pole this year to dance around – and lucky with the weather!
Happy Midsummer!! I did my fair share of dancing this week 🙂
How lovely! And I liked your flower crown – perhaps next year I will make them for the Hittys – then their midsummer dance would be complete!
How Beautiful! I can’t believe we are already in mid-summer!!!
I can’t quite believe it either! The Hittys keep me apprised of these things…
I knew the Hittys were going to have fun with the trug. What a beautiful maypole and a lovely place to dance for joy.
They love the trug! So many opportunities for Hitty-rides to the garden, and more of them fit in the trug than in my pocket!
Oh, this is so cheering. I love your posts. It’s as though I’m a fly on the wall in a small Borrower community. Thank you.
Thanks so much! I loved the borrowers, they were so resourceful and canny! My Hittys read their books to get ideas about how to survive in the world of the Big People.
Of course they do! 💜💜
What fun.
The Hittys (and I) do have fun – lots of it!
Your posts always make me smile – I enjoyed seeing the ladies celebrate Midummer!
I have been wanting to help them make a midsummer pole to dance around…and they were a great help (and did lots of dancing)!
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I hadn’t come across that midsummer tradition before. Lucky Hittys!
I learned this from the Swedish side of my family!