Today I’ve outdone myself in being dull. I’ve just observed my incense burn, the folklore equivalent of watching paint dry. The instructions said to leave…
1 May 2020 – May Day
Today I made a wicker man then burnt him. The original plan had been to get up just before the dawn, skip down to the…
Lemon balm burning
7 February 2020 – Liza Frank and the Philosopher’s Stone, Part 2
Today I reek of Philosopher’s Stone. It’s in my hair, it’s in my clothes, it’s under my fingernails, even the cat has a vague waft…
28 January 2020 – Up Helly Aa
As today is the last Tuesday of January, it’s the Up Helly Aa fire festival in Lerwick. And it’s days like these I wish Sussex…