@KeepTakingTheSoma @Lady_Penelope @HebrideanHecate It’s practical, too: the cows are dry, the chickens are off lay, we’ve eaten most of the meat that was slaughtered before winter (and that we haven’t will soon be rotten as the temperatures increase), hunting is out if you want decent stocks for the future, the vegetable stores are nearly bare: let’s make a virtue of necessity and call it a religious fast. That way the peasants won’t complain so much that they only have bread and thin gruel.