Tag: solstice
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Thought for the Week – Summer Solstice
Thought for the Week – for Thursday 10th June “But being a Druid is just about rave parties at Stonehenge, wacky baccy and free sex, isn’t it?” I sigh, as the same old question comes from the mouth of an otherwise well educated and culturally tolerant work colleague. I sympathise with my Muslim friend, jokingly…
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Thought for the Week – Summer Solstice
I’ve recently been asked to write an occasional short (250 words) “Thought for the Week” for our local weekly newspaper “The Gazette” (15,000 circulation), and the first one will go out next week in time for the Summer Solstice. I’m putting my TFTW here in case it stimulates others to offer words of their own in their own…
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Summer Solstice
Too cloudy to actually see the sunrise, it was nonetheless a pleasant way to start the weekend. The picture above was taken from the bottom of what will become our new village burial ground. As you can see the view is remarkable, looking east over the village towards Wotton under Edge and the Cotswold Escarpment.…
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Christmas lights…
Blessings of the Winter Solstice an’ all that… Why, though, is it that while we are remonstrated at daily to turn off, not to leave on standby, to reduce reuse recycle… the media are so enamoured of fools with pretty lights all over their homes? Again this evening the local news channel showed a whole…