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One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta... -
By any standard, this year's Sunrise Celebration ought to have been a disaster . We awoke on the first night to find someone had... -
The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that my name, and my face, are attached to a new tarot deck, the English Magic Tarot . The Fo... -
Some people hate the bagpipes. Fair enough. But when they tell me this I remind them that in all probability it's the Great Highland B... -
More neatly than marmite, bagpipes or the EU referendum, the question of Morris dancing divides the nation. For many it is, as folk musician...
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Rumours that the Green Scythe Fair has lost its edge have been greatly exaggerated. You'll be hard pressed to find a more bucolic and ... -
Can you name the tribes of Britain ? This was the question put to Tim 'Mac' Macartney of Embercombe when he sat in a circle of Ame...
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Shroom: ten years on
I find it hard to believe but it's exactly ten years since my book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was published. Thou...
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By any standard, this year's Sunrise Celebration ought to have been a disaster . We awoke on the first night to find someone had...
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One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta...
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Just lately I've been listening online to what's been emerging from Newcastle University's Folk Music degree course . Here's...
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2013 has begun in the worst possible way imaginable with the loss of our unborn baby at 19 weeks. She was beautiful and perfect and we were ...
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The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that my name, and my face, are attached to a new tarot deck, the English Magic Tarot . The Fo...
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Last weekend saw our third, for once long-expected but for the time-being final, encounter with the World Drum (it's gone to Belgium). ... -
Over the Christmas period I made one of the hardest decisions I've had to face and I chose to leave both my treasured bands, Wod and Tel...
