Beltane is the tradition of celebrating the warming of the weather and the pastoral summer when herds were put out to summer pasture.  

A Beltane festival occurs on April the 30^th on Carlton Hill in Edinburgh, but this is to keep it in line with the more modern May Day. In the past the Celtic quarter day Festival was celebrated halfway through May. In Ireland it was celebrated on the 11^th of May, but here in Scotland it was celebrated commonly on the 15^th May.

So we decided to have our own Beltane and celebrated it at the traditional time of year which was fortunate because Beltane was on Saturday 15^th May this year.

A few friends were invited to celebrate with a curry, a fire and some fireworks were set off to end the evening.

It wasn’t the evening of wild abandon as is the case on Carlton hill, but everyone came out around the fire after enjoying a sumptuous meal served by Nancy and Myself and as you can see Everyone enjoyed fuelling the fire.