Summer is my least favourite season. Autumn is cooling and mysterious, and I love the whole harvest theme: Michaelmas, Columbus Day, Halloween, All Saints, All Souls, Martinmas and Remembrance/Veteran’s/Armistice Day, and the two Thanksgivings (Canadian and American) are a delight. Winter is wonderful – with Advent, Christmas, New Year’s, Epiphany, Candlemas, and Mardi-Gras. Spring emerges in temperate climes with a fixed succession: new flowers, then Lent, and finally Easter. But summer – other than those years when Easter comes late and forces Corpus Christi into June – has a paucity of major Church festivals, save St John’s Day. Beyond that, there is heat.