I’m not sure if we have cuckoos here. But there is a bird that flys from New Guinea every spring to lay its eggs in the nests of other birds. It’s called a Koel, and it is in the cuckoo family. It has the most haunting call, early morning. I love it.
So many references here I find a kinship with. My pottery mark is a spiral, which I’ve used for decades.
I have a rolling stamp for pottery marking, one of two chosen by my husband, that makes a similar pattern to the Bronze Age beaker.
The Cuckoo festivals. I had to check what cuckoos we have in Canada, as I wasn’t sure I had specifically heard one. We have the black-billed and yellow-billed cuckoo. Would my Cornish DNA recognise the European cuckoo?
Like you, from a young age I had the recipe books and the desire to make food memories from the old celebrations endure.
I am reminded yet again that I must get a copy of Martyrs, Maypoles and Mayhem!
Oh Elizabeth, what a lovely comment of kinship, even though continents divide us! I wonder whether ‘your’ cuckoo’s call is identical to ours? As I write this reply it’s 23 April, the very date on which I’ve first heard it in the past, but sadly not today. I always remember because it’s Shakespeare’s birth and death day, and somehow it seems appropriate to mark the Bard’s special day with that evocative sound!
I’m not sure if we have cuckoos here. But there is a bird that flys from New Guinea every spring to lay its eggs in the nests of other birds. It’s called a Koel, and it is in the cuckoo family. It has the most haunting call, early morning. I love it.
https://birdlife.org.au/bird-profiles/eastern-koel/
So many references here I find a kinship with. My pottery mark is a spiral, which I’ve used for decades.
I have a rolling stamp for pottery marking, one of two chosen by my husband, that makes a similar pattern to the Bronze Age beaker.
The Cuckoo festivals. I had to check what cuckoos we have in Canada, as I wasn’t sure I had specifically heard one. We have the black-billed and yellow-billed cuckoo. Would my Cornish DNA recognise the European cuckoo?
Like you, from a young age I had the recipe books and the desire to make food memories from the old celebrations endure.
I am reminded yet again that I must get a copy of Martyrs, Maypoles and Mayhem!
Thank you for the lovely read.
Oh Elizabeth, what a lovely comment of kinship, even though continents divide us! I wonder whether ‘your’ cuckoo’s call is identical to ours? As I write this reply it’s 23 April, the very date on which I’ve first heard it in the past, but sadly not today. I always remember because it’s Shakespeare’s birth and death day, and somehow it seems appropriate to mark the Bard’s special day with that evocative sound!