i popped into one of our neighbouring villages burley yesterday with swampy to buy my 2011 copy of the Earth Pathways Diary
of course if i had my wits about me i would have avoided burley like the plague this weekend of all weekends.
for those of you who do not know, burley has a very long history connected to witchcraft and this was where sybil leek lived for a while.
so this 'halloween' weekend the place was running with children and a few adults in fancy dress~sensibly we parked up in the woods a short walk from the centre of the village and so enjoyed a walk among the trees.
The place was heaving and instead of being able to have my usual peaceful browse in a coven of witches i quickly scurried in picked up my diary and a copy of pagan dawn, paid and hurried out again.
then i battled the crowds to make my way to the shop that sells fruit and vegetable wines to buy my samhuinn tipple~a bottle of locally made mead.
the rest of the day passed peacefully, a walk in the woods with flynt~who was a bit of a monkey and would not go back on his lead to come home, and i ended the day in bed, wrapped in prudence looking through my new diary and reading pagan dawn
2 comments:
I try to avoid certain places during the major festivals, too.
I buy the Elfin Diary every year. Love it.
I love Burley, we visited several times and I always was fascinated by all the crystals and witchy stuff in the shops there. We used to love the sweet shop by the carpark.
It was fun here yesterday, with the feary ball on Saturday night and a lovely celebration at Chalice Well for Samhain.
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