Christmas Customs — by Unknown on

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While searching for a video of the traditional Boxing Day Marshfield Mummer's Play ... ...I came across the following video of a krampus...

Ho ho ho — by Unknown on

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Of all the myths about magic mushrooms, the one I most wanted to be true was that Father Christmas is secretly and originally a fly-agaric ...

Time machine — by Unknown on

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On our respective eighth birthdays my father bought me and my brother a camera each, a Kodak Instamatic (we were at that squabblesome age wh...

Evolution of a classic — by Unknown on

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I was excited after our recent Wod gig in North Wootton when Mike York played me some Turkish sipsi music. The sipsi is a small reedpipe, ...

Temporal dysphoria — by Unknown on

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I was at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire this weekend, donning the codpiece and giving it some hey nonny no at their Medieval Fayre . We were ...

Veni, vidi, Wodi — by Unknown on

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We played our first proper Fez Noz with Wod on Saturday, in the delightful venue of North Wootton village hall down in Somerset, a stone...

New Telling the Bees EPK — by Unknown on

The extraordinary Mr Bombadil — by Unknown on

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The other day in Brighton we had a decadent Sunday, lying in our B&B watching the first part of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. ...

Day of the Dead — by Unknown on

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As regular readers will know, May Morning is a big occasion here in Oxford , and for a number of years we've been going out with a bunc...

Our daily bread — by Unknown on

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Earlier this year I met John Letts of the Oxford Bread Group , a campaigner for real bread and a grower of old, endangered varieties of whe...

A trip to Wales — by Unknown on

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A sneaky midweek trip to Wales . The fields were quiet(ish) but the hills were alive .

Duotone launch — by Unknown on

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Played with Wod at a fantastic gig on Saturday night, to launch the new, stunning, Duotone album. Nomi performed too, along with Colin an...

Anniversary — by Unknown on

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Managed to get away the other weekend for our first wedding anniversary, a wee trip home to Devon and Dartmoor . In glorious, warm, unseason...