Spring in South Africa
does not start on the 1st of September as we encourag to believe, but on the Spring Equinox which
falls on Sunday the 22nd September at 20:44 this year. An equinox occurs
twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the Equator squarely faces
the sun. In other words, day and night are equal lengths.
It also means we’re on our way to Summer!
The birds are tweeting,
the bees are buzzing,
if you listen quietly you’ll hear
’Spring is coming!’
We’re going to be celebrating Spring Equinox in a big way
this year, it helps that it falls over a weekend. It’s also my Wedding Anniversary!
This is how we’ll be celebrating Spring:
No really! Rumour has it that you can balance
an egg on its end on the day of both Equinoxes. I’ve read some personal
accounts and we will be trying this as a family on Sunday morning. I plan to
make omelettes to either way we’ll be fine! Try it! Here is Wayne Osborn's (Physics Department, Central Michigan University) take on it, he reckons you can do it at anytime of the year. We will be proofing that!
Embrace prettiness! Dress up in blooming Spring colours, put flowers on your dog’s collar and take the family for a walk.
Seek out beautiful wild flowers on your walk
and do a flowers pressing project with your kids, they can turn them into
bookmarks and Christmas Cards or works of art once dried.
4. Turn Spring day into Kindness Day
Even though we should be kind everyday, make a
point of going out of your way to uplift and make someone else happy on Spring
Equinox. Pick flowers along the way for someone you know who could use some Spring
Cheer. A neighbour who has one car parked outside now instead of two, a friend
who is going through a hard time. They don’t even have to know it was you!
5. Celebrate!
Have a Spring Ball and invite everyone. Tell
them all to make their dishes as colourful as possible (without using food dye!) and dress as mythologically as they dare! You could make Spring Rolls!
6. Gardening
Start a fragrant garden, include all your
favourite herbs like Rosemary, Mint and Lavender and hunt down as many
different types of Jasmine as you can. Next year this time you’ll be happy you
did!
7. Spring Cleaning
Put some screechingly loud music on, order
takeaways and commence with Spring cleaning. Look up your closest car boot
sale, or set aside a charity box, a clothes swop box,
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a donate to your local school box, recycling and trash. Occupy one space in the corner of one room and branch out from there. Be ruthless!
This is the rule:
If you haven’t used it in 6 months or if it hasn’t got any long lasting sentimental worth, hand it on to someone else. Also, if clothes are too big for you, either have them taken in, by Monday, or chuck them.
http://freshearthorganicfood.blogspot.com/2013/04/clothes-swops-mariella.html
a donate to your local school box, recycling and trash. Occupy one space in the corner of one room and branch out from there. Be ruthless!
This is the rule:
If you haven’t used it in 6 months or if it hasn’t got any long lasting sentimental worth, hand it on to someone else. Also, if clothes are too big for you, either have them taken in, by Monday, or chuck them.
Spring is nature’s way of taking its first big
yawn and saying wake up world! Lets do the same!
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