I had the most wonderful news on Wednesday. My youngest son Will got the results of his degree –...
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Head-dress and dowsing
Corn Mother, Eastbourne, Lady St Germans, Lammas, Lammas Fair, Moondance of Stonewylde, Port Eliot, 2I’m in a state of great excitement today, which is just as well as it’s helping take my mind...
Quest and Sunwalk weekend
Bristol Zoo, Celtic Moon, Kernowkopia, Mercury Rising Books, Moonwalk, Newton Abbot, Quest, Race for Life, scalp cooler, Sunwalk Bristol, Walk the Walk, 5Firstly just how brave am I publishing this rather unflattering photo on my blog? But a photo of me...
Still in caterpillar form maybe?
Buxton Health and Healing Festival, Constantinople, Darcy, Dovegreyreader scribbles, Mark Thwaite, Newton Abbot, Quest, Stoop Farm, 1Oh dear! From promising an exciting metamorphosis into a “blogger extraordinaire” I’ve now shrivelled back into caterpillar form –...
Slapped wrist
Bloomsbury, Buxton Health and Healing Festival, Legend Press, Mark Thwaite, Peak District, Scott Pack, 1Yesterday I attended a conference in Bloomsbury called “Publishing Laid Bare”. It was also the book launch in the...
Sweet Tweets
Amanda Ross, Cactus TV, Facebook, Jonathan Ross, My Space, Richard and Judy Show, Stonewylde, Twitter, 7My step-daughter said last night that she can’t see the point of Twitter, and I know what she means....
Ring out the old, ring in the new!
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christmas decoration, Christmas tree, corn dolly, Dartmouth Festival, fairy lights, Nordman Fir, Norway Spruce, Ring out wild bells, 5A belated happy 2009 to everyone! My mother always used to stand on the doorstep at midnight on New...
Creative Writing at Park House School, Newbury
Creative Writing, English GCSE, Newbury, Park House School, 0Last week I spent two days at a secondary school in Newbury talking to the whole of Year 10....
Stone circles – prehistoric or otherwise
Dorchester, druid, hereditary witch, John and Suky Burton, Maiden Castle, Maumbury Rings, Portland stone, standing stones, stone circle, Stonewylde, 5I was interested to read today about a Dorset couple who moved from Weymouth to Dorchester and took a...
Kit’s film interview with Friends of English Magic
Friends of English Magic, Jane Goldman, Jonathan Ross, Jonathen Strange and Mr Norrell, Matthew Vaughn, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, Susanna Clarke, 1Last month I was interviewed by Martyn Drake, the guy who runs the Friends of English Magic website. He...
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