The West Country is a great place for enduring and reviving traditions.

See below for a winter banishing tradition in Penzance.

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Inadvertently we chose the first Sunday of May to banish mould and grot from the yard. If mould and grot are works of the devil with slugs and snails as devilish familiars then we did a good job. The yard is ready to welcome summer just as soon as Spring takes things seriously. In an entirely pragmatic way some beer traps have been set to encourage slugs and snails not to eat the new growth on our awakening plants.

We found this extraordinarily dense spider web in an unused plant pot.

A bit of digital tweaking and it becomes very beautiful.

And, as we live in the West Country I can pick out the face of the Devil/Winter retreating as the pot is cleaned and ready for planting up.