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Monthly Archives: December 2015
The Thunder Never Fades – A Tribute to Lemmy
I never met you, Lemmy, But I gazed at you in awe You were one of those rare people To possess the lion’s roar. You growled and sang of Overkill You made the world your stage Your music and your … Continue reading
Silent Night, Holy Light?
This is the single most evocative photograph I’ve ever seen of Stonehenge, and it was taken in the early hours of Christmas Day, 2001. I have other details in my correspondence with Professor Yoshida and from my own experiences of … Continue reading
Posted in Magic & the Supernatural, Stonehenge
Tagged Christmas, Earth lights, Earth mysteries, Professor Yoshida, Stonehenge
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Smoke on the Water, a Fire in the Sky – the Incandescent Demise of Boleskine House
When I was a child in the 1960s, I was fascinated by Loch Ness and by the stories of the monster that was said to live in its murky depths. One of my uncles, who lived in Scotland, used to … Continue reading
Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Whether or not we choose to celebrate Christmas, it’s inevitable that we each have a favourite aspect of this time of year, something that’s either real or else hoped for. We rarely have a white Christmas here in Britain, but … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
Tagged Carols, Christmas, Common Humanity, New Year, Snow, Snowblind, Tidings of comfort and joy, Winter Solstice
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For Aynslie – Hail to the Stonehenge Gods 2015
I don’t write about Stonehenge in public to the degree that I once did, but the ruins on Salisbury Plain remain a constant source of wonderment for me and as such, they’re never far from my thoughts. There has been … Continue reading
“If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?”
The last thing I listened to last night before I went to sleep was the song “I’m Not Like Everybody Else“, because I’d recently been reminded of it when I’d heard it at the end of an episode of The … Continue reading
Lily Partridge
I was deeply saddened yesterday when I learned of the untimely death of Lily Partridge, pictured above, the young woman who collapsed and died after being injured in a rugby match on Sunday, at North Tawton in Devon. My daughter … Continue reading
Donald Trump Facts and Petition
Donald Trump has become the latest in a long, depressing line of high profile Americans to articulate an insight into British society that springs from their fevered imagination or desired world view, rather than from any concrete reality that the … Continue reading
“And I Dream I Can Spread My Wings”
The international news is unrelentingly awful to the extent that it puts me in mind of the bleak, horrific visions recorded so often by Nostradamus in his famous work The Prophecies. Like every other person of goodwill, if I could … Continue reading
A Terrorist Sympathiser?
As I’ve often remarked, the level of discourse in Britain – political and otherwise – is abysmal, but I was still shocked to learn that in the view of the Prime Minister, I can accurately be described as a terrorist … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Language
Tagged Bombing, Hilary Benn, Marcus Aurelius, Parliamentary vote, Syrian Conflict, Terrorism
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