Reasons to Rebel: A personal account of civil disobedience.

  Change Something needs to change, or rather, everything does. We cannot go on living the way we are, our society is a dying beast, trashing wildly and causing more damage as it falls. We need to change so that it doesn’t take the rest of the planet with it. We cannot keep using the

Pollution on my doorstep.

It’s the Easter holiday and I’m in Cornwall, enjoying spending time in the spring weather. Trying not to let encroaching deadlines ruin the spring. The other afternoon, I looked down towards the river that marks the bottom of the garden. Usually clear, with the water tinged a golden brown. I was surprised to see opaque,

Nature based spirituality

A lot of people ask me what it means when I say I am pagan or that I have a goddess spirituality… And I always struggle to answer the question. Whether it is a family member, a friend or someone I mentioned it to in passing while having a beer, I struggle to answer. So

Early Spring Food

(I’ve been on a blog writing hiatus, but I am back now!) The last few weeks have been lovely and warm, which has been very enjoyable… Until you remember that in February it shouldn’t be reaching 20 degrees in the UK. It’s still winter for crying out loud! But despite the voice in my mind

Update

So, It’s been a while since I posted, and all of my intentions of keeping up to date and posting often flew out of the window. It’s been a busy summer. Let’s start this update where I left off… Plastic free July. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t do very well with this challenge. I

Plastic free July

This month I am attempting to give up single use plastic. Not an easy task when living at home, but I’ll do my best and I won’t be buying anything with single use plastic when I buy things for myself. I made a step towards being less plastic reliant today when I bought a reusable

Wildflowers.

For me there is little that is quite as lovely as walking along paths that are lined with wildflowers, growing strong and free, without the cultivation that most garden flowers need.

A bit about fairy tales.

Different forms of fairy tales are woven throughout every culture, they are used to illustrate virtues of human nature, to praise the good and admonish the evil. Or at least that is what they do on the surface. But beneath the surface is an ocean of meanings, wisdoms, and metaphors, which are as topical today