It is wednesday

The Raven’s Nest: kvöldvaka

This is Sarah Thomas, reading from her book The Raven’s Nest at Catstrand, New Galloway.
This follows in the Icelandic tradition of kvöldvaka (‘evening wake’) which was born of winter nights on farms when the days were short, work still needed to be done indoors, there was limited oil for the lamp, and yet there was a thirst for literature and imaginative transportation.
So we gathered in a single warm room, and Sarah read aloud as some knitted, darned and mended items of clothing or even painted her with watercolours to the rhythm of her storytelling