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Just looks like a patch of weeds, doesn’t it? But this self-sown little wilderness holds many magical secrets. In among the rampant forget-me-nots are no less than seven medicinally beneficial herbs – difficult to see because they are still quite small at this stage: Greater Celandine – good for pain, inflammation, warts Figwort – good […]

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Are you finding life more than usually challenging and tough? Are you deeply troubled by all that is going on in the World right now? Are you downhearted, exhausted, fearful? Take heart! Click on the link below to discover exactly what is taking place – and why – and your part in it. I have […]

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First of all, I would very much like to thank everyone who expressed their concern, left comments, sent messages and emails in response to my previous blog post about the wildfire near our village last week. I was deeply touched. I have to add that when viewed in daylight, the fire was actually further away […]

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This morning I awoke to the blessed sound of rain gently falling, soaking the land and cooling the air. In recent days, Wales has become the ‘land of fire’ as wild fires have swept across our moorland and mountains – from north to south, east to west – there have been at least six fires […]

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Today I came across a post on Facebook entitled ‘Advice to Girls’. I won’t name the  author but I presume they are an ‘influencer’ of young minds and behaviour. I am well aware that for far too long, women have been treated outrageously, cruelly, and totally inappropriately – usually by men, but also sometimes by […]

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We all had a terrific time last week at the Saint David’s Day Festival and Book Fair down by Bangor Pier. The weather was amazing – clear skies and warm sunshine (I even ended up with a touch of sunburn!), with lots of people out to celebrate our country’s patron saint and well-known son, and […]

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Bangor Book Fair and Saint David’s Day Festival is taking place this coming Saturday, on the 1st March. Both myself and my publisher will be there – that is if the weather remains kind and doesn’t blow us all away! The event will be sited in the pier carpark and on the actual pier itself, […]

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Any excuse to celebrate a day of love is fine by me! And today need not simply be for romantic, physical human lovers, but a time to show our love and appreciation for everything and everyone and walk through our World and across our Earth with limitless joy, appreciation and unconditional, overwhelming and total love […]

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In early December I spread the word far and wide about a recording of a talk which I had just delivered to the Theosophical Society in Bangor, advising everyone to click on the link and go and listen to it – but then was I taken ill and unable to provide the vital link. My […]

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We have arrived! The tipping point between the headlong plunge into the Darkness and the long slow climb back up towards the Light. Technically, the Solstice occurred at approximately 9.30. this morning… but before we can actually see evidence of the returning Light, with the dying of the day later this afternoon we shall enter […]

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