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It is autumn. My son has had his first week at university, leaving me in the house on my own. Naturally I had to be busy busy busy in order to justify my right to existence. Rather than actually tidying the house (I did do some of that, but it never lasts), I have been…
Well, it’s been an interesting couple of months in the Beecroft household, starting in April when my aged father decided he could not cope with living alone hundreds of miles away from the rest of the family any more. Since then it’s been a full soap-opera worth of just about every ridiculous plot thread you…
I’ve been seeing lots of posts about Imbolc/Candlemass saying that it’s celebrating the turn of the year into spring. In this as in most things, I’m slower than everyone else. For me, February is the dark hour before the dawn, the moment when even the memory of light seems furthest away. February is 3am, the…
http://bearing-witness.dreamwidth.org/6988.html Rev. Chuck Currie on why he established the Facebook group “People of Faith Opposed to the Burning of the Qur’an” – Currie is a United Church of Christ Minister in Northwest USA. And in related news: Currie’s access to Facebook was halted for approx. 24 hours, then reinstated. Facebook has apparently refused to explain…
But that’s about all I can say for it. I’ve just got home from an all day dance-out in Woodbridge, for the Suffolk Folk Festival Well, when I say all day, I mean we danced from 11-12 in front of one pub, then we walked to another pub and danced from 12-1pm. Then we had…
Well, the gist of this post is in the title. My lovely editor at Samhain, Anne Scott, emailed me this morning to say “Did you know Bomber’s Moon has a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly?” To which I had to sit down abruptly with the smelling salts (porridge actually) and calm myself before replying. Publisher’s…
