Solstice Shenanigans
Happy approaching Solstice to one and all. It’s been a while since I posted a blog, so much has gone on over the past couple of years my head has [...]
If I built it would you come?
Our holiday in Devon last week was intended as a spiritual retreat, a time to stop the thrumming noise of everyday life, take time to be quiet, still and meditative, [...]
I’m not quite dead sir!
There is something about the urgency that comes at a certain point with the onset of advancing in years, more particularly its affect on my ability to give a f**k [...]
Corvids, Cats and Metaphors for the Soul
Yesterday a crow followed me home from the allotment, it flew low over my head and landed on the guttering of the bungalow, not five feet from my door, apparently [...]
Finally I understand why Tolkien’s Elves make me cry
There are times when a piece of work becomes something other than just a novel, poem, a song or piece of art. Somehow it reaches out of its own accord [...]
Hail to the Spring, oh no, wait, Winter’s back again!
I am looking out at the melting snow in our garden and chuckling at the favoured meme of the moment Facebook right now. We postponed our Spring Equinox celebration at [...]
Phewf! What a Year?!
Like many people I have found this year to be a bit of a doozy and to say the very least I will not be unhappy to see the back [...]
Power in the Company of Nine
I was reminded of Tolkien again this week as I am in North Wales. It is a land of mountains and stunning beauty that always reminds me a bit [...]
Voices in the Landscape
There is a magic about Llyn Tegid and the landscape of Ceridwen's tale that I can not deny, it holds me enthralled and calls me to visit both the tale [...]
Ceridwen; The Cauldron and The flame.
'Magic from the Cauldron' made by Cerri Lee There is a flame being fanned under me at the moment it feels like the cauldron is about to [...]