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...
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...
THE BOOK OF DUST - Review of 'La Belle Sauvage' and 'The Secret Commonwealth' by Phi
A couple of Christmases ago Angharad gave me 'La Belle Sauvage', the first volume in Philip Pullman’s second trilogy, ‘The Book of Dust’....
On Turning ?0!
It can be a risky thing coming clean about your age. My Dad never tells anyone. He says people pigeonhole you when know how old you are...
BUSHFIRE IN THE ADELAIDE HILLS A New Old Friend Sadly Gone…
I sometimes quote the saying that ‘you can’t make old friends’. It’s a way of encouraging myself and others to keep up with long time...
Spiral Art in Princes Park
Liverpool was blitzed during WWII. Buildings were blown apart and some of the brick debris washed down to the sea. There it’s been...
