Beltane is one of those festivals that I feel like I struggle to connect with and yet, when I do it right I find it full of energy. Doing it right is of course making it about other people. Beltane and Samhain, I need to remember are mirrors of each other, they’re all about others, … Read More
I think this was a great idea to spend this weekend specifically painting in my Mum’s garden. Specifically pagan themed painting on a May Day weekend. I have had a hugely variable relationship with Gods over the years though my understanding of them and ability to interact with them really developed over the rituals and … Read More
I have always been fascinated by the relationship between my Mum and the Green Man. Genuinely he is all over her garden and her garden is spectacular so he clearly favours her. But then wouldn’t you favour an unconscious and wholly natural worshipper? She buys green men at garden centres and gets me to paint … Read More
I like to wear jewellery, one thing that really cheered me up during the pandemic was wearing jewellery. This bracelet started out life as a tourist trinket for evil eye averting in Greece: At some point during the pandemic I was wearing a pentacle, a St Christopher and this evil eye bracelet to the extent … Read More
I love to receive flowers, like I properly love it. at least some of this is because for a chunk of time I’d have far too much of a histamine response to any flowers that weren’t carnations but these days I can receive roses, calla lilies, all the good flowers. I got roses today and … Read More
Cake is love. The Princess has been baking my birthday cakes since I was eleven. Gary Rhodes Death by Chocolate is hands down my favourite but she says she’ll only bake that once a decade (it’s complex as all hell). I’m on three in my lifetime so far. If I die I want it on … Read More
I had promised myself that I would see meerkats today. There is a burst pipe so the meerkats (and other animals) are closed. I am really quite sad about this. I am therefore looking at previous meerkat pictures. Someone suggested that perhaps I was especially sad because I had LARPdrop. I said maybe but I … Read More
No nicknames used here, first names only. I’m maudlin at the drop of a hat at the best of times but the other week when I had the bad reaction to the Lisdexamfetamine I genuinely wondered if I was about to drop dead that second with nary a real warning or indication it was going … Read More
I really love a lot of the weirder bits of the Wintermark brief, the automata in the storm (troll creations obviously…), the alien ancestors of the Steinr, the dead in the fens. Mostly though I love the Krampus. I love the Krampus in the real world too, but in Wintermark I love a beast who … Read More
Ok I’m actually warm and I am AMAZED by this. It is very fucking cold, I think it’s been colder but not by much. We haven’t totally scored when it comes to our set up tonight, we’ve missed a couple of things but I’m laying here in my sleeping bag and thank fuck I’m warm. … Read More
