🐕 DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: July 2024 Almanac

Folkways: The Folklore of Britain and Ireland

Get out your sunscreen and Mr Whippy's as we consider what July has in store for us in the heavens and hedgerows, including talk of St Swithin's Day and Sirius, plus Thomas Hardy and some early Irish verse.

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