“The only way out of the trap, as I’ve argued here rather more than once, is to accept a steep cut in your standard of living before it beco...

I wish all my family, friends and readers a positive and peaceful 2012 and success to all your aspirations, hopes and dreams. Aum. Ha!

'Hitch' as he liked to be known inspired adoration and loathing in seemingly equal measure.  Simon Hoggart in yesterdays Guardian ad...

WHITBARROW Soft is the wind on Whitbarrow this day, As if it’s breath just blesses as it flows, Follows sheep-tracks to ancient groves Whe...

It is only now, some twenty years after the event that I can bring myself to record the terrible events of that grim November night. Recent...

Grace is my favourite word. Grace under pressure is my motto and despite my clumsiness. Only the other day...It doesn’t matter. There hav...

Dreams ideas and strange thingies 30/12/00: A fragment after watching Luc Besson’s Jean of Arc and lit like the film-dark and brooding. ...

I went out for a bike ride on 'Rocky' on Monday. He's like his owner-a bit old and cranky and prone to unexpected breakdowns th...

This is another great post from the Arch Druid of America, John Michael Greer. I think he's right. There is never going to be a wonder...

The first two verses of Tony's 'The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight' recently chosen as favourite music for the Swiss Euthanasia ...

BODHISATTVA GIRL BINDING BLUES The liminal spaces of the dusk and dawn revealed her naked in her grace and power. She was revealed to be...

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The Archdruid Report: The Peak Oil Initiation : I sometimes wonder what historians of the far future will think as they pore over what’s lef...

ANGER RITUAL IN THE FIELD OF DREAMS I say: ‘Let’s get this out into the World!’ And you; a little scared, ask how it’s done. A...

The new pen holder from Quiver!

Adrift! HOW THINGS SNEAK UP ON US. UP A LADDER WHOSE EACH RUNG IS WROUGHT WITH YEARS AND YEARNING AND TEARS, SO THAT WHICH YOU...

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There the tree rises. Oh pure surpassing! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh great tree of sound! And all is silent, And from this silence arise New b...

TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011 Royal Parks Cycling Boris Johnson has backed opening up the Royal Parks to more cycling. Caroline Pidgeon (Lib Dem) o...

This rather wonderful book came into my life when reading the impossibly productive Neil Gaiman's blog. Basically the message is...