Circulus
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I supported Circulus at a recent gig in Oxford, down at the Port Mahon pub, ably organised by Dave Todd. I played for about thirty minutes...
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Dartmoor
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Over the bank holiday weekend we made a stealth-trip to Dartmoor , stealth because we really ought to have been visiting friends and family...
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May Morning 2012
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And so, yes, May Morning was wet. Thankfully the ferocious storm that woke the city at one am, and which left even the most hardened ration...
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Beltane
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So here we are again, Beltane , the eve of May, one of my favourite times of year, and I'm gearing up to take the Whirly Band and the B...
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Wod at the Ashmolean Museum
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As part of last weekend's Folk Weekend Oxford , Wod were booked to play an acoustic, Sunday morning set at the Ashmolean museum . ...
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Homo narrans
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I went to see Rupert Sheldrake speak at the recent Oxford Literary Festival , and a very good speaker he is too. Sheldrake is the heretical...
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The Crooked Path
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The pressure of marking about 170 undergraduate essays has kept me distracted from blogging but aside from work pressures it's been a st...
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