Hey Babe, take a walk on the wild side ~ with Walker by Jane Alexander

Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side ~ with Walker by Jane Alexander Over Christmas I downloaded a book I was not sure I would like. When I was a kid, the genre YOUNG ADULT barely existed, if at all, and I’d have run screaming from it, as the condescending marketing ploy from [...]

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Devas, fairies, and the unseen worlds ~ why there are more things than we ever dream of

Devas, fairies, and the unseen worlds ~ why there are more things than we ever dream of I’m a mass of contradictions, me. Like Lewis Caroll, I can believe ten impossible things before breakfast and not think it strange, and yet, some things I simply cannot accept. Of all the disciples of Jesus I most [...]

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Tales of the Wellspring part 2 ~ the origins

Tales of the Wellspring part 2 ~ the origins I’ve always struggled with community, with being among people constantly. It’s always made me feel as if there is something horribly wrong with me that after a couple of days I start to feel irritable, angry and then finally desperate. The first time I began to [...]

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The Wild Hunt and Other Tales

Today is Candlemas or Imbolc, as well as the 1st of February. It’s the day when people celebrated the very first signs of spring. Imbolc or Oilmelc means sheep’s milk and it is indeed at this time of year that the first lambs are born (some are already born!) and the flow of milk really [...]

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A fragrance of roses ~ a love-story for Christmas Eve

  A fragrance of roses    The scent of summer wakes me, drifting on the cool night air, and brings me to consciousness again. Roses in fullest bloom, warmed by June sunshine, great old fashioned cabbage-headed flowers that drop petals and trail their heavenly scent throughout the house. But it is late December and amid [...]

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I believe in Father Christmas….

  I believe in Father Christmas   This might sound a peculiar statement from one of my years (I am over forty) but do bear with me on this. My childhood Christmas memories are pretty well all happy ones, and my parents maintained the Father Christmas idea by not putting any decorations or a tree [...]

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Announcing my new baby ~ Introducing Away With The Fairies

Announcing my new baby ~ Introducing Away With The Fairies I’ve been away for a fortnight on holiday (more of that soon) but the day before we headed off, I hit the publish button for my new book. I’ve had limited and sporadic internet access, not to mention not a lot of time to go [...]

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Meet the Mirror ~ Tip the Time-line

Meet the mirror, tip the time-line I don’t like mirrors; they show me a stranger who I don’t like or sometimes don’t even recognise. I don’t look the way I think I do, inside, and often the  fact that there is no correspondence between my inner image and what I see in the mirror means [...]

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The Waiting Room ~ “It’s Strange how some Rooms are like Cages.”

The Waiting Room “It’s strange how some rooms are like cages…” Paul Simon in The Obvious Child. Not always just cages but almost like holding pens. You enter them and things stand still while you wait for the designated outcome. Waiting rooms: we’ve all spent far too much time in them. Whether they’re called Waiting [...]

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Beachcomber ~ a poem about inspiration

Beachcomber The shores of sleep last night Were not of soft white sand, Strewn with intriguing driftwood, Magical wave-smoothed rocks And shining wine-coloured weed Cast up from the deep. No. The shores of sleep last night Were strewn for miles With the wrecks of dreams, The hulks of hope And fragments of fantasies, Lying like [...]

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