: About Me

Generally, I am a writer - this is what I do, it's what I'm good at - or one of the things I'm good at, at least. I write poetry, essays, stories, and increasingly, opera; in short, if it comes in words, I'll do it, so long as it isn't legalese or anything like that. The party of the third part heretofore... does nothing for me, except wind me up after making me three parts mad! 

I edit the Voice of Albion news journal, and write the motoring and art and culture sections thereon.  We are an intensely patriotic organisation dedicated to bringing people the truth wherever possible, and we don't care if in doing so we upset sundry apple-carts that the vested interests would rather were un-upset.

I am a musician. I compose (hence the opera), but I also help direct a choir, a Pagan choir, to be precise. It's interesting that the words and the music sort of go together; one of my favourite of my essays is more prosody than prose, which makes it interesting to listen to even if you don't like what it says. This is one of the reasons I like Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas.

I am a Cunning-Person - a Witch, in common parlance. No, don't confuse it with Wicca, for whilst all respect is due to Wiccans, they do not Witches make. I'm Trad, dad. I am co-founder of the Troubadours of Albion, an organisation which seeks to propagate and preserve the Olde Ways of the Kelts (note the spelling, as Kelt is from Keltoi, as the Greeks called us. We did not call ourselves thus, but it is a handy label).

Anyway, that's me in a nutshell; obviously, there's much, much, much more to me than that, but in a nutshell that's the kernel, and part of the art of good writing is knowing where to stop.

My passion is ...

Music

I know too much about ...

Aston Martins

My parents always told me ...

Chicks are evil - so don't cross them...

My childhood ambition ...

To be an astronaut; now I'm just "out of this world!"

My favorite memory ...

Does there have to be just one?

Why I write ...

Cogito ergo scrivo...

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Usually Radio 4, or Focus, or Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre, or Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 2

My first job ...

Mucking out swimming-pools.

My best moment ...

Does there have to be only one?

My inspiration ...

My Priestess

Religion & Spirituality > Wicca & Witchcraft Wicca: It's just not deep enough

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The shallows of Wicca are entirely suitable for some people. But personally, I prefer the profound depths of Cunning Craft.. That's not to say it isn't a valid path if you're into that sort of thing; however, I will issue the caveat that "that sort of thing" usually also entails the sort of lunatic fringe which delights in fluffiness and eclecticism (both fluffies and eclectics tend to burn easily), imposters and losers who think that the title "Witch" will somehow buy them respect. I suppose it may buy them respect from the sort of freak who will fall for a loser anyway, but anyone with a...

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