Alys for Head Gardener!

I am SO with my garden right now, as months of planning and loving tending are coming to manifestation. Things are coming up everywhere, the peas are flowering, the potatoes are burgeoning, the salads being picked, tomatoes potted on, courgettes and runner beans planted out, broad beans making pods and apples fruiting. Whilst I [...]

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Get well soon, Monty

Well – it seems that my ‘missing Monty Don’ postings were a bit prophetic. Its just been announced that he has suffered from a stroke and will be stepping down from the Gardener’s World Head Gardener job with the BBC. His shoes will be extremely difficult to fill, but I really wish him well for [...]

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Facebook and Displacement Activity

I do have an addictive personality, I admit it, but usually its chocolate. Currently though, I have been bitten by the Facebook bug.
When I first got my profile set up a few months ago, I was bemused by it – my kids thought I was spying on them and got all twitchy, my much younger [...]

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Missing Monty Don Part 2

Okay, now that I am on this ‘descriptive writing about Monty Don’ trip, I am finding all sorts of waxing lyricals about him. He really captures the imagination, doesn’t he – that’s because there is something of the Earth about him. After I posted last night’s whimsy, Carol announced that Monty is having a break [...]

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Missing Monty Don

You’ve got to take your hat off to AA Gill, the Times’ TV critic. Whilst he may have been rather unforgivably panning Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens, the way he describes Monty is a hoot. It really is such a classic that I have to include it here, where mostly I usually [...]

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Gaudi and Nature

As a Pagan Druid, the natural world is my temple. But places of worship created by human hand can often thrill me – the mosques of Istanbul, the incensed, jewel-darkness of Chartres Cathedral, the pristine, white tall-forest-like beauty of York Minster – a collective conscious act of religious dedication, often over many centuries, is inherent [...]

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Visioning

Some of the people I work with don’t like the word ‘vision’ – along with words like ‘mission’ and ‘empowerment’ they eschew using it, believing it to have religious undertones. It must be to do with my meta programme – but I love it and use it all the time!
I use ‘visioning exercises’ a lot, [...]

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I’m in love!

I am head over heels in love with Nature – the green earth is filling me with so much joy that I can hardly contain it – it is like being in Elysian fields over-brimming with soft blooming colour. I am so deeply connected to the earth right now that I sense all its upward [...]

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Bell Tent Report

I have just spent a week in my new bell tent and think it warrants a review! It was all much easier and straightforward than I expected!
I arrived at the camp field to an array of yurts and benders already constructed, along with a few other bell tents, some nylon jobbies and a sprinkling of [...]

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Maypoles

May is at last with us and my apple blossom is out, pink blushed, scented and beautiful. Newly returned from Beltane Camp, the May is very much with me, after the deeply magical celebration I have just been very much inside of.
A very powerful and physical ritual act was the making and raising of [...]

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