Blessings to everyone for the Solstice and Yuletide greetings as well. Have a great one and hope New Year brings peace and fun and jollyness to you all!!

Orkney Faerie Museum and Gallery has moved house to a new abode about a mile down the road, same island, same people and same sort of faeries, see you in the SUmmer, www.orkneyfaeriemuseum.com     BB

Neil

Hello Enchanted Folk friends, just using this Blog, as I know not what else one does, to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, oh, that bit has passed!! Ok, I will go for the second one, the New Year. May I wish thee all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, and may all you wish for come true and your credit card bills are small and kind!!!

Love and Blessings

Neil xxx 

We recently had the good fortune to welcome US artist friend Sarah Costanzo of PA to our UK shores! We took her to I Do Believe for the Falling Leaves Ceremony and then wisked her quickly back to Orkney, off the north Scottish coast where we live! She had a great time and was then going to head south once more with me to attend Witchfest in Croydon where we were sharing a stall together.

The day after Witchfest, I took her around the many wonderul sites of London, and as we walked along the subway of a tubestation, we heard the music of a busker getting louder. So I suggested to Sarah that she might like to put some money in his guitar case as she went by, and also (very craftly of course) said that is was a very British tradition that as you put your money in the hat or case, you give a great big bow to the musician who is entertaining you! Of course this is not really true, but I wanted to see if she fell for it! And yep, she did! Full hook line and sinker!! I could not hide my laughter and was duelly belted for my antics!! But it was worth it!! American artists please therefore note: Do not let me take you around London!!!

I am currently away from Orkney, where I live and staying with my parents in Buckinhamshire for a few days. They were keen for me to try out their new caravan they just bought so I slept in it, for the fact that it was new and currently smoke free!!

Well I did go to sleep in it, but got awoke by the sound of rain and the caravan moving slightly in strong wind. Later that day I learnt that a neighbour had spotted a tornado moving up the road past our house! That was the time I was in the caravan. So I woke up and checked my two toes, they looked somewhat shaken and I said to them both,  'Toe, Toe, I don't think I'll paint on Canvas any more!'