I was born in Cornwall, that mysterious peninsula at the far south west of Britain. A place of moorland, majestic rocky shores with the mighty Atlantic ocean pounding it's grey stone cliffs. A place of small fishing villages, strange folklore customs, and small tortured trees with branches
I told this story on the blog nearly three years ago, but I've been inspired to tell is again. From that blog: When I was very young I got the Measles. I had a raging fever for a number of days and the doctors were quite worried about
A nice light topic for a Tuesday morning. As is often the case the talking stick session of our local moot has inspired me to write a blog post. Some people go down the pub to relax, watch a bit of Sky Sports on the big screen
I've been in the recording studio all week working on the Y Mabinogi project. The good news is that it's been an amazing three whole days and it's moving along very nicely, but I thought I would pull my head out of the headphones and type a
Over the weekend I received an email asking me to dedicate a blog about dealing with 'excessive rage and contempt', and I'd like to start by thanking Charlie for asking me to write about this topic. Charlie continued to say that they thought they're not the only person dealing with
As a movement grows and matures it seeks to firm the foundations of its community, and one of the ways it can achieve this is by re-introducing lost rites of passage, and reclaiming those that have remained, but have seemingly lost their way. In the secularised West
A couple of weeks ago me and Cerri watched the new Netflix series The Crown. It tells the story of the early years of Queen Elizabeth II, with wonderful performances from the cast, and some of the back stories were real eye openers to me. I had
I have been blissfully unaware of a little tension within an area of the Pagan community. I have seen over the years the occasionally derisive use of the term fluffy bunny to describe some Pagans, but I've completely missed that there is also negative talk the other
Over the years I've had many discussions with friends and seen quite a few talks about the nature of the Gods. One of these is the idea of local deities. For instance in a recent edition of the Down at the Crossroads podcast (thoroughly recommended if you've
I wondered how my ghosts article would be received and was delighted by the response which led me to ponder a little more. This topic can be seen as a continuation from that article and deals with one of the ways we have used to contact those
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