I had never heard the saying "Ne´er cast a clout till may is out" until Ali mentioned it in her blog. Then I read the QI book this morning and discovered that it could relate to Hawthorn blossom, not the month of May (although they were more aligned in an earlier calendar). A city boy […]
Adrian Mole´s grandma always used to phone him at the beginning of May each year to say that. He never had the faintest idea what it meant. But then he was only 13 3/4
Thanks for that – although I hear you´ve all had marvellous weather since we went back to the