No Posting Today

..for today is Jaanipäev, and more important, the day after Jaaniõhtu...

For the not knowings, this is a midsummer celebration which everyone says (so it must be true) derives from a pagan celebration which has subsequently been attached to the feast of St John, all over Northern Europe. What people don't realise of course is that, when pagan religions (real religions I mean, not just watching the 'Wicker Man') were on the wane, they often moved their celebrations to coincide with the organised Church's festivals, not vice versa as is often assumed.

But that's all by the by, it's a fun celebration, so it must be pagan, and even in the temperant atmosphere of the PMC we are taking a day off today on the grounds that we might have drunk too much coffee in an effort to stay awake for the duration and are now going to sleep for the next 27 years.