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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Dancing with the Daffodils
In recent times, my once-frequent forays into the surrounding countryside, places of interest further afield and ‘Otherworlds’ have been severely curtailed on account of a number of circumstances beyond my power to control. This is a great shame, because I’d … Continue reading
Posted in Diary, Magic & the Supernatural
Tagged Dreams, Imagination, Memory, Otherworlds, Picasso, Recall, The Magic of the Mind, Wordsworth
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Suleyman Shah, Stonehenge and Shakespeare
I’m grateful that I live in a country where, for 99.99% of the time, we settle our differences through words and I wouldn’t have it any other way. At the same time, I was fascinated to read about the tomb … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Current Affairs
Tagged Druids, Epitaph, Hypocrisy, Pagans, Reburial, Stonehenge, Suleyman Shah, Turkey, William Shakespeare
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Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris
After pondering what the Reverend Hargreaves had to say about the Welsh flag, then reading the informative essay on the subject by the vastly more enlightened Dr Evelien Bracke, all of which has been covered in previous posts, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged Alphonse Bertillon, English language, Francis Dolarhyde, Gwyn ap Nudd, Red Dragon, Silbury Hill, Stonehenge, Thomas Harris, Will Graham, William Blake
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A True History of Y Ddraig Goch, the Red Dragon
Even if I might not be immediately deluged with responses or acknowledgements, I generally find that writing here pays off, either through the varying degrees of satisfaction I experience by committing my thoughts to print, or else because someone ‘out … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Current Affairs
Tagged Dr Evelien Bracke, Isobel Brown, Silures, The Daily Wales, The Red Dragon, Usk, Wales, Welsh flag, Welsh history, Y DDraig Goch
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George Hargreaves and the ‘satanic’ Red Dragon
A few days ago, I learned to my utter amazement that George Hargreaves, who believes (among other things) that Y Ddraig Goch or the Welsh Dragon is a sign of Satan, had been selected by UKIP as their official representative … Continue reading
Return of the Crystal Maze?
Friday the Thirteenth is supposed by some to be a day of ill-omen, but any lingering gloom or apprehension I may have felt when I woke up was instantly dispelled and reversed as soon as I read a fascinating and … Continue reading
Strange Days Have Found Us
When a man the same age as me dies, a fellow Welshman and someone with whom I was for a while in the same broad line of creative work, I’m bound to notice and to be saddened. That person was … Continue reading
The Druid Legacy
A few days ago, I noticed some excitement in my news feed at the birth of a Druid college in the UK. Over the past ten years, I’ve heard much about the location of supposed Druid colleges in Britain in … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Current Affairs, Stonehenge
Tagged Brythonic pantheon, Druid College, Druids, Julius Caesar, Specus, Stonehenge, Wicker Men
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Piper at the Gates of Dawn
My mind reeled when I read this feature about a flute that may be over 43,000 years old, not simply because of the antiquity of this instrument, but for a host of other reasons that would require a small book … Continue reading
Judaislam and A Not So Silent Witness
“Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, And not seek for kind relief?” William Blake, On Another’s Sorrow. On a day when the BBC published two prominent features, one dealing with … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Uncategorized
Tagged Andrew Keen, Jews, Muslims, The Internet is Not the Answer, William Blake
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