Water lily

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Woadworks ~ using Nature to bring well-being AND beauty.

Woadworks ~ using Nature to bring well being AND beauty. People who know me well know I have had a lifelong passion for all things herbal. I’ve studied informally both the medicinal and cosmetic properties of herbs and my study shelves are heavily skewed towards herbals. I bought my first herbal when I was about [...]

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Sweyne’s How ~ the tomb of the man who gave Swansea its name

There are many hidden treasures and lost history, dotted amid bracken and heather and in valleys where no one but wild ponies venture. I found this one, supposedly the tomb of the ancient founder of the city of Swansea, lichened and mellow in Welsh sunshine, with the aid of an OS map and a husband [...]

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The view from here

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer versus Edward Cullen

Some times the good faeries are listening when I come up with ideas. I visualised this scenario a few years back and look what some clever clogs did. Made me laugh till my sides hurt.

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The Red Shoes ~ a dark faery tale of compulsion and addiction

  The Red Shoes ~ a dark faery tale of compulsion and addiction    If you remember the Hans Christian Andersen story from childhood, you’ll remember the plot basically goes like this: orphaned child adopted by rich old lady covets ‘sinful’ red shoes and tricks her guardian into having some made for her by a [...]

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Hypergraphia ~ the Midnight Disease (a brief explanation of a complex condition)

  Hypergraphia ~ the Midnight Disease (a brief explanation of a complex condition)    I first came across the concept of Hypergraphia through the magazine New Scientist, for which we have had a subscription for many years. By one of those coincidences that occur, I had a tiny snippet of a piece in the section [...]

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Scammed?

I’m angry with myself for being naive. I should know better by now. But apparently I don’t. Almost 45 and I am still so bloody naive. I expect the best in people, even when I know that people always disappoint. In January I took part in what seemed a lovely scheme to write a short [...]

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Back from Beyond

After losing so many dear people from my blogroll either to deletion, going silent or being made private, I am delighted to report that my great friend J is back with his blog Journey of Life. He’d been forced to make the blog private for a number of reasons but a change of circumstances and [...]

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Waiting

I have been very quiet the last few days, on the blog front, and I may be still for some time. Until Wednesday I had been working on an article about being in the moment and about those who look on the bright side and how the two things are pretty much incompatible. On Wednesday [...]

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