St. Hilary’s Day
13 01 2009Today is St. Hilary’s Day. A long, long time ago he was a Bishop of Poitiers, not far up the road from here and he wrote some theological works considered to be quite important by those who care about such things.
Some posh Universities and Colleges name one of their teaching sessions Hilary Term, almost certainly because the start of the session is more or less somewhere around St. Hilary’s Day. You probably have to be posh and privileged for this to matter to you.
More interestingly, today is supposed to be the coldest day of the year.
On a down to earth level, this is patently untrue for this year but if it at least marks the turning of the tide and from here on in Spring beckons, then that’s fine by me. It’s the first day this year I’ve been able to get out of the house and potter about in the workshop and garden a bit.
I don’t know whether this is a typical winter, or just because we have become used to milder ones of late but we have been freezing recently. Last week we were in the -9 deg C, this week + 9, but nearly everyone seems to have a cold or flu or some other illness… roll on Spring that’s what I want…
This has been a cold four week period, however since Monday 11th. Jan,2010 we have had an up in temperature, i.e +5 so long may this contine, thus St Hilarys Day was not the coldest.