It's not often that I blog twice in one day nowadays, but today has turned out to be very special indeed for me.

Today is also May Day Eve - better known by some as Walpurgis night, which leads into tomorrow- May Day or Beltane. This has been a great fire festival for centuries, if not thousands of years. It was one of the festivals that the Christian Church simply could not get rid of, no matter how it tried, and was eventually forced to absorb... but that's another story.

Suffice to say that for me, a pagan, this is a very special time of the year indeed. It marks the first day of summer in the pagan calendar.

Anyway.... Mr Penry has been busy in the garden this afternoon, ever since it stopped raining and throwing hailstones around the place. I've heard lots of hammering and chiselling, but that could mean just about anything. ;)

About twenty minutes ago he called me out to see what he's been doing. Bless him, he'd made me an altar out of a large tree stump from a tree we'd had felled a while back. And he's carved a large pentagram into the top of it. It's absolutely beautiful... I'm so lucky.

So first thing tomorrow (weather permitting of course) I'm going to be out in the garden, offering incense, wine, honey and oil on my new, very special, Mr Penry-designed altar.