Posts Tagged ‘Samhain’

A Special Robe

Sometime after the death of my young brother Alex (see My Darling Baby Brother), all of his siblings got a small amount of money from his estate to buy something to remember him. I thought about what to buy for months, months and months. I thought about a tattoo, he liked tattoos but it isn’t [...]

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Samhain 2012

This year Samhain was a two day event! It started on Tuesday (30th) night when Sye and I carved pumpkins (for how to carve pumpkins see Making a pumpkin lantern for Samhain). Here’a our finished pumpkins: Left: Jill – looking shocked (mine), Right: Jacko Sye’s piece of artwork. (Click on image for full size.) Sye [...]

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Four Hundred Posts

This is my four hundredth blog post since I went back to using WordPress about five years ago, before then the site existed in other various formats see Geeky Post: Website Development for previous formats. Whether you’ve been following my blogging for the last five years, had a browse through the archives or are a [...]

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Samhain

I spent Samhain (Halloween) with my good friends Simon & Chrys. Samhain is pagan new year (see Pagan Festivals), and as part of our ritual we had an outdoor fire. We threw slips of paper with what we want to leave behind in the last pagan year or get rid of the this pagan year. [...]

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