Author: bish
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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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So long and thanks for all the…
It’s been a hard year to blog very much, without spiralling into Covid anxiety, Brexit rage or any of dozens of conspiracy scenarios spread both in the social and news media. So I’ve not had much to say, or at least have decided not to say it. As we rip away our citizenship of a…
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Someone said, what about the gods? LOL.
I think I have a significant disconnect in my perception of deity(ies) and my Druidry. I certainly view the latter as a verb, and treat it as an active practice without the need for any particular pantheon or “behind the curtain” deity. Therefore, let me relate – as indeed I have done here before –…
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The Story Tree
The idea of bringing trees into the house at Yule and Christmas began in Germany and was adopted in Britain in the sixteenth century and gained widespread popularity during the reign of Queen Victoria (of the German House of Hanover). It probably harkens back to Christian times, but nowadays is almost entirely secular and celebratory.…
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Lockdown Remembrance
Well, that went ok. You cannot imagine the number of conversations, video meetings, guidance emails from national and local government, local government associations and British Legion, risk assessments and “informed commentary” we’ve dealt with over the past months… Our parish clerk has kept up to date with the vacillating and often contradictory pronouncements from various…
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A little rant on “pagan tealights”
Ok, so I guess pagans… we are connected to the natural world in a spiritual sense and find inspiration and communion within the enspirited landscape? It follows really that we don’t litter, we reuse and recycle and all the rest, we honour life and probably in a semi-animist sense we recognise not all that lives…
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