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Thursday, 1 May 2025

Dancing & Drumming

Glastonbury May Day - Part Three - Morris Dancing...

Don't ask me why, but I ticked off a Bucket List experience today by photographing Morris Dancers.







But whilst I am happy with the few pics I captured, I think the fun is best by this video, taken by Mrs Pixie-Led:


The drummers were pretty effective too:







Mulling Around...

Glastonbury May Day 2025 - Part Two - Glastonbury Folk











 










Glastonbury, May Day 2025

Part One - The New Town Crier













Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Glastonbury Holiday

Having had to cancel our planned 2024 May Day celebrations, we finally started our May Day weekend away amongst some of the most beautiful sunshine I can remember for a long, long time.
 
Heading to Glastonbury

Glastonbury Tor


Our home for the next few days

The view from our holiday home

Blessings be.

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

April Lookback

April has definitely been a more chilled month project-wise. I did manage to get that surprise writing project I mentioned last month in hushed tones completed though. I can be a little more open about that now.now. Tara, Guy N. Smith's daughter asked me to provide the introduction to one of my favourite GNS books - Son of the Werewolf. Whilst extremely excited by the honour, I did get a little stressed and nervous about the proposition. But I hope I provided something she was happy to print alongside her Dad's excellent novel. 

Whilst on the topic of GNS, I also managed to collate all the content of the second Guy N Smith zine. My literary contribution o this is my very first attempt at a ghost story ( of sorts), which is based on Guy N Smith's story about a prison door he purchased back in the day. Tara was kind enough to send me a photo of said door, which you can see below:


For those very few people who have read my tale about the old prison door, you will see that I took a bit of artistic licence with the gaol door in my story.. But, aye, this is a work of pulp horror fiction. As well as featuring alongside a plethora of other Guy N. Smith fan fiction of the upcoming GNS zine, this short story will also appear in a slightly amended form as my first entry in my new Christmas ghost story strand... later in the year. Expect the chapbook closer to the Christmas season.

Anyway, that's it for my April diary update. May is already looking busy, so keep checking this blog regularly for updates...

Monday, 28 April 2025

Sunday, 27 April 2025

A Little Sunny Reading Sesh


Teri

Teri, another garden nemisis of fudjcat: Don't know why, I find her a particularly friendly type:


 

Saturday, 26 April 2025

Evening Tulips

I took a short wander through the garden this evening. And, wow, the tulips are really producing the colour right now, and certainly remain as the plant of the moment: