Author: bish
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The Acceptance of Abusive Stereotyping
I was listening this morning to an audiobook I read in paper form many, many years ago. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein. It is a complex future fiction book and deals with many cultural taboos in quite a forthright manner, with major characters driving a plot line from positions of liberal anarchy […]
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Feeling Railroaded
The village of Charfield has long had a main railway line running through the middle of it. It’s famous, if at all, for the railway disaster of October 1928 where a passenger train crsahed into a goods train underneath the main Wotton Road railway bridge, killing sixteen people and leaving a mangled carnage beneath it. […]
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Grand Daughter
I liked the way this shot turned out, with the late summer afternoon Sun coming through the left window. Reducing the exposure a little left a photograph of warm shadow. Disney has a lot to answer for, but at least at this stage we hadn’t put on the diamanté necklace… Sony ILCE-7RM4+SEL24105G 1/500 f/5.6 75mm […]
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Hubris
We’re a note in the music, a phrase in the song; A semi-intelligent self obsessed throng. With slightly more brain and a flexible hand, We establish a dominance over the land. And though we believe we are top of the pile The ‘verse will correct this conceit in a while. We are part of the […]
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Wandering thru Not-UpFest 2021
Now I’m not posting as much to Flickr I thought I’d start adding some gallery pages here. Yesterday, we tentatively wandered, masks at the ready, through North Street to look at some of the #75wallsin75days that replaced the covid-postponed UpFest this year. Obviously, only a handful and the ones that took my fancy at the […]
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Parish Council Meetings in Covid Times
As I type we are one week away from the expiry of the 2020 Coronavirus Act provision that allows Parish Councils to meet remotely. After May 6th, Parish Councils are expected once more to meeet physically in a public venue. This is to comply with laws that were written long before teleconferencing was even a […]
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On casting circles
This is a personal presentation of a post I made in a forum in response to some ‘instruction’ on how circles feature within Druidry. It’s a little reactive, but I thought I’d share it out into the world. Maybe I’m wrong. I often am. I’m not going to be put off by your gaslighting, and […]
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That census question resolved.
Following on from my whitterings the other day about the religioius question (the national identity question being an easy selection), I wrote this for The Druid Network the other day: The 2021 Census The 2021 Census takes place in England and Wales on Sunday 21st March, managed by the Office of National Statistics. (The Census […]
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Census 2021 and the Religion Quandary
During the last census in 2011 there was a strong initiative to present the pagan paths as a recognisable collection of valid spiritual paths, with the dominant drive being “pagan dash”. In this the idea was to identify one’s path as pagan and something more descriptive. Perhaps pagan-Wiccan or pagan-Heathen or, as I did, pagan-Druid. […]
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Inspiration Fails to Strike…
I’d rather call it doggerelthan verse or poem; you can tellI’m rather underplayingany hint of claiming “bard” My prose is pretty bad as well;confusing minds I’d ensorcell.You get what I am sayingI find this stuff quite hard. In truth I’d rather bid farewell,enunciate a counterspell,with inspiration fraying…remove my bard’s tabard. 😉 A bit of fun […]
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