Tag: yule

• Season of goodwill

  

  As the Sun sits ever lower in the sky, and somewhere (far away from anywhere I’m likely to be) the gods of commercialmas receive the blessings of their frantic acolytes, Yule approaches.  The Yule tree is up.  Outside, a far more impressive holly is full of bright red berries, suggesting a hard winter ahead, but…

  bish

  13 Dec 2014

  Ethics, green fingers

  chrimbo, christmas, facebook, kidney disease, PCKD, yule

• Tree’s up

    So this year I had to do it all on my own, Charlie being at Manchester until next weekend. Decent tree too, I had to cut fourteen inches off the top to get it in. The ‘fairy’ on the top is traditional, and older than me. The Armagnac is less so, but just as…

  bish

  9 Dec 2012

  holidays

  Tree, yule

• Thought for the Week – Yule

  Well, another one writ, and with a small plug for the TDN and CC result… In the pagan year there is a kind of resting space between Samhain and Yule. From honouring memories of our ancestors at Samhain, we join in Remembrance of our honoured dead, and into a world itself seemingly dying. Leaves fall,…

  bish

  1 Dec 2010

  spirituality, TFTW

  charities commission, charity, christmas, Druid, druidry, Network, Pagan, published work, samhain, TDN, yule