'Blue Pearl: The Life of a Song' by Steve Banks
The song, 'Blue Pearl', was born at Cae Mabon in 2003, during a workshop Eric ran with Peter Harper, of the Centre for Alternative...
RETURN OF THE HEALING MAIDEN Merlin's Prophecy
For twenty years I’ve been proclaiming what I call ‘Merlin’s Prophecy’. It started in the nineties when I scripted an Irish-American TV...
MABON'S WAY: Walkabout in Mythic Eryri
Long ago I was a ‘bush artist’ in the remote Aboriginal communities of Central Australia. Unlike missionaries, anthropologists or...
BUZZ PARTY – Practising Utopia
It was to be a Buzz Fest, named after the ‘Way of the Buzzard’ mystery school who originally booked, then cancelled, this weekend. But...
COB-ADOBE-MUD: Early Humanity at Work
We are making an octagonal, reciprocal frame-roof structure overlooking the river. It will be a hangout space with a table, chairs and a...
WHAT A BELTANE WE HAD!
It’s the time of the great burgeoning, when buds become leaves in a two-week unfurling miracle. Blossom is everywhere, sap is rising,...
PLAGUE, RESTRICTION, UNCERTAINTY AND... CHANGE
It’s a stormy night just before Samhain. The clocks have gone back, the dark half of the year has begun. Over the next six months...
FIRST AMONG EQUALS: The Taliesin of Our Times.
'ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS' BY BOB DYLAN Reviewed by Eric Maddern I came of age listening to Bob Dylan. Just nine years older than me he was...
Counting Lockdown Blessings
We’re on the cusp of coming out of lockdown. This will be welcome of course: the chance to see friends and family with ease, to go where...
TWO FALLEN OAKS: The Hole, the Steps, the Bridge and the Hendy Head
Over the winter two mature oaks fell from the riverbank into Afon Fachwen, the little white river. One was near the gate to the Padarn...
