Snoozing and record-keeping

Me, every morning for the whole of last week: Granted, there's times I end up hitting the snooze button because work has worn me out more than usual the previous day, such as digging through dump layers during the heatwave last year, or when my brain just won't shut down for whatever reason and I …

Sidmouth follow-up post

So I was planning on writing this last night, but I got distracted reading Thorn Mooney's blog over at Thorn the Witch and ended up going to bed half an hour later than I should have. Oops. Thing is I've only just started reading Ms. Mooney's work, having devoured her book Traditional Wicca: A Seeker's …

The power of folk

I'm at Sidmouth Folk Festival this week, my seventeenth consecutive year of attending. And while it's the annual family holiday, I don't see a huge amount of my parents while we're here - we all have different shifts as volunteer Stewards (free season ticket!) and don't always want to attend the same concerts or workshops …