The Plough Monday Bucket Ceremony

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Earlier this year the Professor and his closest academic colleagues celebrated Plough Monday in their traditional manner with fine displays of old metal buckets in several unexpected places. Happily, I did succeed in finding one of these secret locations.

Plough Monday Buckets

After admiring the aged containers, I took away one of the cards scattered in the vicinity and meditated on its meaning as I played a mixtape of Bernart de Ventadorn's greatest hits. 

Plough Monday Card

The following morning I awoke, as so often in the past, to what sounded like a robin singing Verdi while perched on a can of soup. 


Verdi Robin

Location: Eccles-on-Sea

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