after the Feast, the Fast

Well the Intercalary days have come and gone, and we are now in the month of fasting. It has been a good few days this year in our family, with some nice presents, visiting family and friends and going to the cinema one evening.

Really looking forward to fasting for the next few weeks, as it involves getting up before sunrise for breakfast and dawn prayers. Actually, I suppose the evening meal should then be called 'breakfast' for this month! Certainly a time to reorient the "spiritual compass".

tea and biscuits

It has been a long family tradition through several generations, that mid afternoon we had tea and biscuits. Never just a cup of tea. Well I have been trying to lose weight recently but I still find myself going for the biscuits. It is the same at work. Whenever someone comes back from holiday, celebrates their birthday or some special event (fund raising for charity) out come the biscuits, cakes and even jam donuts.

So what did I take in to share with my team yesterday, to mark the Baha'i calendar "Intercalary days"? Yes, of course - biscuits! (OK there were some apples and oranges as well.)