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Blessings of Beltane on this beautiful day ✨️🪻🌼🌳It's that time of year again. 3 batches of walnut, parmesan, wild garlic pesto. 3 batches of pumpkin and sunflower seed, gruyere, wild garlic pesto, and a big bottle of wild garlic oil all made. Plenty left over for omelettes and rice dishes. Probably collect more next week 😆🥰The path to the woods has disappeared. We keep getting covered in yellow pollen 😆🌼 but so lovely to resume our evening walks.Working on this ritual blanket for some time now. It's the biggest piece I've done on the loom, the full width, and so long it had to be warped downstairs. It's pure Sheep's wool hand dyed by a local woman using mainly lichen, bramble, and woodchip. I'm not weaving in the ends but plaiting or twisting them. I have tiny fox bones and possibly beads to stitch in as well. Lots of work yet to do before I can show you the completed project. It will be used for ceremony, ritual, prayer, meditation, drum journeying, and mindful comfort.Welcome to Inali, the shy, new edition to our home. She loves the woodburner, but most of all there's a spot on the window sill close to the bird table! Inali means black fox, and she's quite fluffy. We are besotted already 🥰The resident robins realised this was not the safest nest spot and abandoned it sadly, but they're busy making a new nest and I bought this treasure home to be honoured rather than have someone put it in the skip 🫣
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Haunted
How exciting to be a winner in a competition for my first ever piece of flash fiction. Head over to Legend Press to read my entry and the other 5 great winners. I particularly love The Doll by Shona Read. For a … Continue reading
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Tagged dreams, flash fiction, haunted theme, Legend Press, nightmares, winners, Writing, writing competitions
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Writing Nature
I’ve finished studying Creative Writing at MA level. The dissertation is handed in so just got to wait for the results… It’s always exciting to finish a long project and start thinking about how to use newly acquired skills … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Liptrot, dissertation, dreams, MA, memoir, nature, non-fiction, photographs for inspiration, Robert Macfarlane, Sara Maitland, wildlife, Writing, writing ideas
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What Next?
It’s been four years since I finished my degree which had the desired outcome of improving and focusing my writing. Since then I’ve self-published a book on Amazon Kindle, moved house twice, relocating to the county I was born in, … Continue reading
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Tagged Canterbury, chapter, deadlines, dreams, modules, study, UniversityofKent, Writing, writinglife
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Buddha Mind
I had plans for September. The kids were due back at school, and I was looking forward to writing and studying with fewer interruptions. I cleaned and tidied the house in readiness. Then out of the blue I had other … Continue reading
Over Thirty Years Ago…
Extract from The Sea (1982) ‘A skyscraper of charcoal rock towered into the fearful night. Colossal turrets of fallen scree were continuously bombarded by an explosive sea. Below these mighty castles lay a thin path of wet, ribbed sand. Clammy … Continue reading
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