~off again~

 

well i have enjoyed a fairly peaceful week and today we are off to the huge show that is busfest at the foot of the Malvern hills. we have been going to this event for about 13 years now...not as regular festival goers but as crew and it just seems to get bigger and bigger every year.

i no longer have any 'doings' as crew anymore because of my m.e and fibro but swampy organises all the site signage and since last year organises the charity auction, which involves him working for a short time alongside the famous auctioneer james lewis.

 

so yesterday we spent getting pretty pagan tidy and packing up all the essential and today we shall be driving up to the three counties showground at the foot of the malvern hills for ten days and i decanted a small bottle of my own raspberry vodka for the odd tipple...

 

...see the music case in the background? its my new instrument...a concert ukulele :)

 

 

hopefully i will be camped up at a little area that is a little grove of trees and standing stones and if so i shall be camped up so when sitting with my book or crochet to hand...i have my pink wool against weapons section to complete, i will be facing the hills.

 

i have packed up my bag with books, journal and crochet, put some more music on my ipod and i plan on a nice relaxing week. i am even taking Evangeline so that during the week, before the festival is open to the public on Friday, i can spend some time having a nice cycle around the huge showground.

when the show is open i shall be taking my pennies and see what i can find~last year there was a lady selling lovely clothes in the style of magnolia pearl style clothes so i really hope she will be there again!

 

i wont be able to blog but if you go to instagram you will hopefully be able to find picture 'posts' from me over the week

 

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the turn of the great wheel has once again made a very distinct move towards the darker days.

this morning when i woke i felt decidedly chilly under my duvet and when out in the garden at 6.30 it was the most chill the morning has been for a long time.

 

i am so embracing this change, as i always do, but this year i seem to be embracing it more...i have spent a lot of hot days sheltering from the heat and it seems to me i have not been out in my sacred garden as much as i would like...my nook is presently home to small branches i foraged from the forest, my log pile and a huge drift of falling rambling rose and climbing jasmine leaves and petals.

so that will be my first job when we are back home and pretty pagan is unpacked.

 

since may and the moongazy camp we have had 'something' on each month that took either time, energy or money and especially with the run up to the fairy festival i have been busy and as is the norm my spiritual path took a step back away from it all.

 

so now its time to get back onto my path and see where it leads me over the dark months...

 

 

 

 



~sun & inspiration~

 

 

i think the sunshine has put my creative spirit into overdrive right now

 

i am brimming with new ideas for the wylde apothecary and have a busy couple of month ahead because in august i will be selling my wares at the

new forest fairy festival

 

i am very excited about this and swampy will of course be joining me as chief money-taker while i chat, create on the spot and generally enjoy myself. we are getting into the spirit of the festival by decorating our gazebo with ivy and willow fronds, fairy lights etc and of course we will be dressed for the event (i cannot wait to post the pictures!)

i know swampy is worried about how i will be over the two days but i intend to rest up the few days leading up to it.

i am sure it will be fine.

so if any of you out there happen to be in the new forest in august please come and see me!

 

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thank you all for your comments regarding my last post.

our garden is quite small, although not as small as some (i have in mind the tiny garden i had in one of my old homes...weeny)

its 31ft/9m+ by 18ft/5m+...the plus allows for the extra inches.

as our house is L shaped the nook end is 4ft narrower.

 

we are lucky that these little houses were built in the early 70's when gardens were still a decent size...my mums house was built in the 20's and her garden is huge...a good few meters wider and about four-five times longer...and keeps me supplied with wood for my cauldron.

 

but we consider ourselves very lucky to live here with a lovely little house and garden and lovely neighbours.

 

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i have yet to make any journeys to find out more about what i feel is the guardian spirit of our home.

i have found on my long spiritual journey if i try to force anything it just will not 'happen'.

i generally find myself experiencing a 'pull' to do a reading, travel on a spiritual journey...so i am waiting for that pull...

 

~a peace~

 

thank you all for your comments about my garden...as soon as i had read them i popped out to take some new ones of what greeted me this morning...

 

 we both keep standing looking out at our 'instant' lawn. we were going to put down seed but having flynt we really had to lay turf down to give it the best chance. we are going to put a little seed down where the edges of the turves join to help knit it all together and i keep a watering can filled and handy to water the spot where flynt does his waterworks to stop the overdose of nitrogen killing the area.

 

 

 

 we moved the water butt yesterday morning to the end of the ferret home as swampy can put a downpipe from calv's gutter into the butt for maximum water capture. so the little 'pier' off the end of the star gazing deck (cleverly built by swampy to hide a drain cover!) has a baby rowan, blueberry, white currant, small acer and swampys trough of flowers. this screens the bench from the rest of the garden and when the silver birch, hawthorn and elder grows up more this end of the garden will become like a little woodland glade.

we are going to add another level to the ferret cage and have plans to 'decorate' the front to turn it into some form of woodland fairy house so it merges more into the garden.

 

 

 my nook for those days when it is too hot...it catches the full sun first thing in the morning but later the rambling rose and jasmine shades it. at the moment a holding area for all the plants we need to plant out...the climbing plant at the front of the nook is a clematis called 'silver moon'...well we had to didn't we?!

 

 

 

one of my three 'rescue' gnomes...

 

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~earth goddess~

 

well i set out to post this a few days ago but became tied up with all the usual things of 'normal' life~my mum popped in to have swampy look at her telephone bill (she was paying for things she did not need) and order her some strimmer wire, we popped out to a large camping superstore where we became over excited and made a list of some new things we quite fancy, shopping was yesterday and we had to take little Inca to the vets for a jill jab to bring her out of season.

 

today i have been catching up with e-mail and looking at a possible campsite for next years Stonewylde camp...north wales is looking interesting.

 

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so...

earth goddess...

 

this has been coming up a lot in my books, dreams and oracle card readings just lately...

i have been writing it all up in my 'soul journey' journal and ended up having to do a flow-chart kind of thing to try to make sense of it all.

 

as i cannot do a flow chart here i shall just try to write up the big things and how they link...

 

firstly...re-birth/new beginnings~snake/dragon/snake spirit/cernunnos*green man/earth goddess/brighid

 

then...re-birth/new beginning's~primrose~flower of the bard~adder stone~regeneration of self

 

i also had a dream about being in a goddess circle with a small group of other women, with one of them revealing herself as a good friend and soul sister.

 

i am thinking that a more in depth card reading is in order to see if i can make any more sense of this.

 

what is your relationship with the goddess?