No doubt everyone is used to receiving requests for donation  through their letterboxes from various charities, unfortunately not all are what they seem.  some years ago I was involved in exposing a fraud where a private company collected clothing under the guise of being a charity but then sold them to the third world - Now it seems they are back ( Read more... )

Well the Merry Month of May draws to a close and ends what to my mind must have been the most important part of the Northern European Pagan year, a time to celebrate the return of better times and the fact you survived the winter - Time also to make plans for the coming year, decisions made now would greatly influence the following year.

I decided ( Read more... )

I received the following email from Fiona at Qlink:

Dear Sue

I answered your previous questions based on an assumption that I know the article you refer to, and as this may not be the case we may both be taking at crossed purposes, plus it seems from your current questions that they may be based on an article written by a person who does not have the ( Read more... )

Shortly after making my comments about the Q-Link pendant I thought that perhaps I really ought to allow Q-Link the opportunity to answer the queries I raised and so I emailed them raising my questions as to how the compoments in the Q-Link pendant could work when the apparently are not even connected to one another; after a long delay I received ( Read more... )

OK this is not strictly Paganism, but it is advertised heavily on Pagan web-sites and I think demonstrates the gullibility of fluffies


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Whoops, I promised I wouldn't leave thing so long last time, but I broke a bone in my foot a couple of weeks ago, don't ask how because I don't know, all I know is that my foot swelled up like a balloon and hurt like merry hell.  Normally I can mange pain quite well, I meditate, concentrate on the pain and metaphorically cast it out, yes it sounds ( Read more... )

I don't doubt that there are a lot of people out in Pagan Internet land who hoped CRAP had died a death.  The truth though is I have been overwhelmed with the amount of crap out there, where does a person start? How do you go about explaining that a persons private belief system is fake, a construct of unscrupulous publishing houses, authors and ( Read more... )

I have a particular interest in the story of  George Pickingill, partly because I align my self with the Essex Cunning folk and partly because I used to live in George’s home village of Canewdon.

Canewdon is a small village outside of Southend-on-Sea situated on high ground overlooking the marshes around the mouth of the river Crouch an area rich ( Read more... )

Azi

All anonymous posts are screened, since your recent posts have contributed nothing to the conversations I can only presume you are trolling and they will be deleted.  I have not at this time blocked you completely so you are welcome to join the conversations in an adult manner, however please restrict your prosaic prattling to HWC.

Well Mother-in-Law seems to be out of the woods, she had her false hip repaired at the weekend but suffered a stroke and we thought we about to llose her but, she has rallied and was able to squeeze my hand and talk briefly when we went back down to see her and the doctor is very optimistic so hopefully I will have some spare time shortly.

I am ( Read more... )