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New beginnings

Published on 2012-01-29 16:31:26

Life has a dreadful habit of barging in and hitting us with problems, and sometimes once they start they just flood in one after the other. Such has been the last twelve months of my life. During this time my spirituality and power became weakened, real life affairs uppermost in mind I found it hard [...] > read more

Let’s talk about love…..

Published on 2011-04-16 19:09:57

It has been a while since I wrote; once again much has been happening and yet nothing has happened. Life has that habit doesn’t it? Every single day seems a busy one yet when you look back what have you actually done?  Not an awful lot in my case. > read more

On Imbolc

Published on 2011-01-31 23:08:30

February 1st brings us to Imbolc, (Imbolg, Oimelc, St Brigids Days are other titles; Candlemas is on the 2nd February) the time when Spring starts stirring in the belly of the earth. In fact the word Imbolc derives from the old Irish ‘I mbolg’ wh > read more

A simple Samhain

Published on 2010-10-30 18:35:34

‘What’s or who is Sam Hane?’ is a question I am often asked, with a small smile I have to correct the pronunciation first for it is said as Soween. I shall try and explain it as simply as I can… To Pagans it is the time when > read more

Absence

Published on 2010-10-15 13:59:39

I’m sorry it’s been so long since I last posted. Personal life has a habit of taking up time, and we all know how quickly each day draws to a close when you are busy. I am about to pen some more thoughts, so I’ll be back very soon. > read more

Fantasy in Lathkill Dale

Published on 2010-08-26 14:06:02

Recently I was taken on a fantastic walk along the Lathkill Dale, near Monyash, Derbyshire. It turned out to be a gloriously sunny day despite the morning weather leading us to believe it would be overcast and drizzly; it also turned out to be one of > read more

Mullein the Great!

Published on 2010-08-13 01:12:11

The plant Mullein, that tall yellow beauty that grows on wasteland and in hedgerows, has many useful properties.  You may know it as a different name (Donkey’s Ears, Flannel Plant etc) as it has many common names, but the one I like is ‘Hag’s > read more

Thoughts on badgers and Bovine TB

Published on 2010-07-14 02:00:37

Not wanting to enter into the badger / Tb debate purely because without scientific background I stand to get myself into a pickle. I am, however, not afraid to air my own opinions, qualified as I feel I am by having a farming background and being cou > read more

Past life

Published on 2010-07-06 17:02:50

Today I have had a reading for my Past Life. It is rather interesting, so I thought I would share some parts with you. It has to be said I do not usually bother with such things, thinking many of them just a waste of time and money. I stick to my own > read more

Cleavers

Published on 2010-07-02 09:54:00

Have you (or your dog) ever emerged from a woodland walk, or a rummage in the hedgerow, trailing long, sticky ribbons of a green creeper? If so you know what Cleavers is. Also known as Goose-grass, Sticky-Willy, Catchweed – and a few others – its > read more

Peony

Published on 2010-07-02 09:50:53

I have a peony growing in my garden that I can trace back it’s ancestors to nearly 200 years ago. You see, my maternal grandmother came from a family of gardeners, or more precisely, nurserymen. As my parents live in the house that only my mother > read more

Catmint

Published on 2010-07-02 09:46:51

From somewhere that I no longer remember, I got a small shoot of catmint ( Nepeta Cataria). Not sure if it would grow in the shade of the willow, and especially as the ground there is not the best quality being stony and of shallow earth, I neverthel > read more