The Changes
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In 1976, when I was 8 years old, BBC Children's TV broadcast one of the most terrifying sci-fi programmes ever made – The Changes . It g...
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Glastonbury 2014
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Telling the Bees played Glastonbury this year, two gorgeous gigs courtesy of the Toad Hall stage in the Green Futures field. I took ...
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Summer Solstice sunrise
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Sunrise from Nattadon Hill The Solstice Horn Sun over the graveyard Back in the village
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Altarnun
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It's easy to miss the sign for Altarnun as you hoof back up out of Cornwall on the A30, just another colourfully named village that you...
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The Museum of British Folklore
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I first came across Simon Costin's Museum of British Folklore a few years ago, when Telling the Bees played Festival at the Edge. Then...
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Bourrée
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My first encounter with the bourrée was via Jethro Tull ... ...and their jazzed-up take on J. S. Bach's Bourrée in Em. T...
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Helston Flora Day
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My in-laws live in the gritty Cornish town of Helston and so I visit fairly frequently, but up until now I've never made it down for F...
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