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 [...]
Grand designs, Epic sagas and Rites of Passage!
I really don't think it is an overstatement to say this year's events will probably go down in our family annals as an all round epic saga. As the Winter [...]
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 [...]
It’s That Time of Year! But which one?
It's that time of year again! What time of year? You know That time of year....! What, are we still talking about the twelve days of Christmas, the Winter Solstice, [...]
First world problems or It’s dark moon, My iphone died, but I have a new Etsy shop!
Dark moon energy! It always has some annoying affect on my life, whether that be seriously grumpy moods, electronics failing at every turn or other minor catastrophies of a "first [...]