The second fairy witch looks a little bit grumpy, that can't be right.
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Hippy Witch, Fairy Witch
Talking of hippy witches here is Miss Aimson the hippy witch on holiday:
The second fairy witch looks a little bit grumpy, that can't be right.
The second fairy witch looks a little bit grumpy, that can't be right.
Friday, 24 January 2014
Bluebells and Fish and Chips
With the arrival of snow last night, I have been further encouraged to think about holidays. I checked the almanac in the kitchen at Aimo's House, and found that Easter is really late this year. On the one hand, this means we have ages to wait, on the other it means, if we go South, there is a good chance of bluebells and the countryside being really pretty.
Here is a photograph we took one Easter in Cornwall:
with the bluebells just starting to come out.
This was taken on the road between Boscastle and Tintagel. Hey hey, could you get any more hippy witch than that for a location! On the subject of Boscastle, my latest
Merry Meet magazine just told me that the Director of the Museum of Witchcraft (in Boscastle) has retired and gifted the Museum to The Museum of British Folklore. I understand why he has done it, to protect the collection and keep it together, and that he thought long and hard about the best way forward, but it feels sad. It feels like the middle class holiday resort Cornwall of the South of the county is creeping up to the North of the county. It feels like
"Hey Hey Hippy Witch, you're not welcome any more"
So where are hippy witches to go on holiday? Now the hippy witch community is on-line and at specialist conventions only, where are we to go if we want to be a hippy witch in the not-virtual world? Where are we to go if we want fish and chips from the King Arthur's Chip Shop, or a magazine from Merlin's Newsagent? I'm going to miss it if those places don't exist any more.
p.s Aimo said I wasn't doing enough swearing in my blog lately so: fucking bastards I want my hippy shit back!
Here is a photograph we took one Easter in Cornwall:
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| Hippy Photo |
This was taken on the road between Boscastle and Tintagel. Hey hey, could you get any more hippy witch than that for a location! On the subject of Boscastle, my latest
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| A Great Magazine |
"Hey Hey Hippy Witch, you're not welcome any more"
So where are hippy witches to go on holiday? Now the hippy witch community is on-line and at specialist conventions only, where are we to go if we want to be a hippy witch in the not-virtual world? Where are we to go if we want fish and chips from the King Arthur's Chip Shop, or a magazine from Merlin's Newsagent? I'm going to miss it if those places don't exist any more.
p.s Aimo said I wasn't doing enough swearing in my blog lately so: fucking bastards I want my hippy shit back!
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Snow! Shock! Horror!
Well we have the first covering of white of the winter. I don't know if it's going to turn into anything much, I don't think so. Here is a reminder of winters past:
The Guizer
Look what I found in a charity shop yesterday:
an Alan Garner book I didn't know about. Apart from some interesting stories in it, there is a difference between this and other books, for example The Book of British Folk Tales, in that at the back of the book there is a list of acknowledgements. The sources of all the tales are listed in detail, along with some notes.
I think this is a good idea, and dare I say, honourable.
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| An Interesting Book |
I think this is a good idea, and dare I say, honourable.
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Unthanks, various
Today Miss Aimson is getting a tenancy agreement for a student house in Norwich. It is on Unthank Road, which apparently is famous in Norwich, a bit like Alan Partridge.
Unthank is a Northumbrian surname, deriving from a placename. There have been Unthanks in Northumberland since at least the 12th century, the name deriving from a dialect word for squatters or travellers who appropriated common land. The Unthanks were subsequently a "border reiver" family, outlaws who recognised no jurisdiction but their own. That singular lineage seems ingrained in the music of Rachel Unthank and her younger sister, Becky, who grew up west of Newcastle, not too far from the village that bears their surname.
I would like to quote from the Unthank section from the Bawburgh website:
"Many of us will know the well-known Norwich road name, and even the Unthank Arms public house, but some of us will know that there is more of a connection to Bawburgh with the family name of Unthank. Brought up in Norwich, the name runs off the tongue, but visitors always think it rather strange. There is however a village in Northumberland called Unthank, and this is where the family hails from.
Bawburgh’s connection with the family goes back two hundred years, although it was not until 1870 that the family, as lessees, could buy Church Farmhouse, previously owned by the Church. It is not thought to have housed the Vicar at that time — this, the role of Church Cottage, then a larger property — although certainly it did house Chantry Priests prior to the Reformation. By this time (1870), Mr. Clement William Unthank and his wife, Mary-Anne had inherited Church Farmhouse, Bawburgh, and Intwood Hall, from her father Mr. Joseph Salusbury Muskett, who had acquired the lease of Church Farmhouse in 1799.
As the Unthank name came into the equation, this would not be the last time, the properties would be inherited by the female line. Clement and Mary-Anne’s son, Clement William Joseph inherited the estate in 1884. He became a Lieutenant Colonel, married Judith Sarah Savill-Onley and had 2 sons and 6 daughters, including another Clement William Joseph!! He commanded the 4th Voluntary Battalion Norfolk Regiment 1888-1896 and by this time the Unthank Estate stretched to 3,000 acres in Norfolk with farms amounting to 525 acres. The last Miss Margaret Beatrice Unthank, who was the Great Great Great Grand-daughter of the original Joseph Salusbury Muskett, inherited Intwood from her father John Salusbury Unthank in 1960. In a letter dated 1993, Miss Unthank told Bawburgh News that John Muskett had been “a man of property”, rebuilding Intwood Hall (in the family since 1797) and Caistor Hall for his children, whilst working as Land Agent at Easton Lodge. Margaret Unthank died in 1995 whilst her cousin, Mrs. Jan Darling lived at Intwood Hall.
The Unthank family never did live in Church Farmhouse during the 200 years of its ownership, but there have been many recorded tenants, starting with Thomas Robertson in 1875, through to Ted Reynolds, who left the property in 1979 and in between many farming tenants who played a major part in village affairs (especially James Sparrow during the first two decades of the 20th Century). It was conveyed to the Intwood Estate in 1982, and Church Farmhouse sold, bringing to a close their long association with the village, although much surrounding farming land remained in their hands.
The village, however, will be historically linked with the Unthank family, due to their generous gesture, when, as the re-named Intwood Estates, they gifted the land for Bawburgh’s new Village Hall, which enabled the village to use the proceeds from the sale of its existing land to build our now fine Village Hall. Without this boost, the project would not have been possible, and it is thanks in part to the arrival 202 years before its opening, of the entrepreneurial Joseph Muskett."
Unthanks, Musketts, and Darlings, I think there is a policy in Norwich that all names, of families or roads, must be cool. It is the name of stuff capital of England. Although Northumberland is pretty good for names. I bought this CD for the name Unthank,
but I enjoyed and bought another.
Now I'm not so sure, I'm a bit off and on with The Unthanks' music.
Unthank is a Northumbrian surname, deriving from a placename. There have been Unthanks in Northumberland since at least the 12th century, the name deriving from a dialect word for squatters or travellers who appropriated common land. The Unthanks were subsequently a "border reiver" family, outlaws who recognised no jurisdiction but their own. That singular lineage seems ingrained in the music of Rachel Unthank and her younger sister, Becky, who grew up west of Newcastle, not too far from the village that bears their surname.
I would like to quote from the Unthank section from the Bawburgh website:
"Many of us will know the well-known Norwich road name, and even the Unthank Arms public house, but some of us will know that there is more of a connection to Bawburgh with the family name of Unthank. Brought up in Norwich, the name runs off the tongue, but visitors always think it rather strange. There is however a village in Northumberland called Unthank, and this is where the family hails from.
Bawburgh’s connection with the family goes back two hundred years, although it was not until 1870 that the family, as lessees, could buy Church Farmhouse, previously owned by the Church. It is not thought to have housed the Vicar at that time — this, the role of Church Cottage, then a larger property — although certainly it did house Chantry Priests prior to the Reformation. By this time (1870), Mr. Clement William Unthank and his wife, Mary-Anne had inherited Church Farmhouse, Bawburgh, and Intwood Hall, from her father Mr. Joseph Salusbury Muskett, who had acquired the lease of Church Farmhouse in 1799.
As the Unthank name came into the equation, this would not be the last time, the properties would be inherited by the female line. Clement and Mary-Anne’s son, Clement William Joseph inherited the estate in 1884. He became a Lieutenant Colonel, married Judith Sarah Savill-Onley and had 2 sons and 6 daughters, including another Clement William Joseph!! He commanded the 4th Voluntary Battalion Norfolk Regiment 1888-1896 and by this time the Unthank Estate stretched to 3,000 acres in Norfolk with farms amounting to 525 acres. The last Miss Margaret Beatrice Unthank, who was the Great Great Great Grand-daughter of the original Joseph Salusbury Muskett, inherited Intwood from her father John Salusbury Unthank in 1960. In a letter dated 1993, Miss Unthank told Bawburgh News that John Muskett had been “a man of property”, rebuilding Intwood Hall (in the family since 1797) and Caistor Hall for his children, whilst working as Land Agent at Easton Lodge. Margaret Unthank died in 1995 whilst her cousin, Mrs. Jan Darling lived at Intwood Hall.
The Unthank family never did live in Church Farmhouse during the 200 years of its ownership, but there have been many recorded tenants, starting with Thomas Robertson in 1875, through to Ted Reynolds, who left the property in 1979 and in between many farming tenants who played a major part in village affairs (especially James Sparrow during the first two decades of the 20th Century). It was conveyed to the Intwood Estate in 1982, and Church Farmhouse sold, bringing to a close their long association with the village, although much surrounding farming land remained in their hands.
The village, however, will be historically linked with the Unthank family, due to their generous gesture, when, as the re-named Intwood Estates, they gifted the land for Bawburgh’s new Village Hall, which enabled the village to use the proceeds from the sale of its existing land to build our now fine Village Hall. Without this boost, the project would not have been possible, and it is thanks in part to the arrival 202 years before its opening, of the entrepreneurial Joseph Muskett."
Unthanks, Musketts, and Darlings, I think there is a policy in Norwich that all names, of families or roads, must be cool. It is the name of stuff capital of England. Although Northumberland is pretty good for names. I bought this CD for the name Unthank,
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| A Fairish CD |
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| Another Fairish CD |
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Borders and Blocks
Just returned from the studio, where something is taking shape. I can see the potential visual style of The Lost Book of Fleams books. It will be something like this, today's print:
That reminds me, I used to really like Borders, but now we just have T'interweb instead, which is also good.
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| New Fleamsy Print |
That reminds me, I used to really like Borders, but now we just have T'interweb instead, which is also good.
Great Speeches
Last night I watched this film:
It's a great film, especially if you like strong bloody violence, which if you are Fleams fans, I will assume you do. Apparently it is a much more violent version of a foreign language film. I haven't seen that one. This version has Russell Means as the old pathfinder.
Russell Means was famous as a defender of the rights of native and indigenous peoples worldwide as well as an actor and author. He was one of the founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), and it was obviously great for him to be able to act in films as if he was in a time of his ancestors, before they had been dispossessed of their land.
He also got a chance to do it in this film, probably the bestest film ever made:
A couple of extracts of speeches he made are in this book:
including part of one he gave at the time of the occupation of Wounded Knee. In it he talks about the history of how American Indians have been treated in the US:
"World War I came along, and the United States asked the American Indians if they would fight their war for them. So we went out and saw around the world what was happening, and we came back. Then another war happened. this time they not only took Indians into the army, but into the defense plants all across America, and into the big cities. And we learned the ways of the white man, right here in this country, found out about the white man to bring that knowledge back for the use of our people."
Means was talking about American Indians in white society, but the story is the same here with the government and ordinary working people, especially rural working people. It was the World Wars that gave people the ability to stand up for their rights and achieve social justice. We're all Indians to governments, that's why we have to fight them.
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| A Great film |
Russell Means was famous as a defender of the rights of native and indigenous peoples worldwide as well as an actor and author. He was one of the founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), and it was obviously great for him to be able to act in films as if he was in a time of his ancestors, before they had been dispossessed of their land.
He also got a chance to do it in this film, probably the bestest film ever made:
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| A Very Good Film |
A couple of extracts of speeches he made are in this book:
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| An Interesting Book |
"World War I came along, and the United States asked the American Indians if they would fight their war for them. So we went out and saw around the world what was happening, and we came back. Then another war happened. this time they not only took Indians into the army, but into the defense plants all across America, and into the big cities. And we learned the ways of the white man, right here in this country, found out about the white man to bring that knowledge back for the use of our people."
Means was talking about American Indians in white society, but the story is the same here with the government and ordinary working people, especially rural working people. It was the World Wars that gave people the ability to stand up for their rights and achieve social justice. We're all Indians to governments, that's why we have to fight them.
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