• Posts Tagged ‘ghost’

    How To Play A Wizard At Parties

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    We were all washing up after the Christmas Eve meal. (Have the ham on Christmas Eve, cook the turkey on Christmas Day and serve it with the leftover ham. Works every time.) Enough booze had flowed and enough Annie Lennox had been played that the atmosphere was convivial and the discussion loose. This year...

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    Be Sad Rather Than Scared This Weekend

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    It’s one of the benefits of magical practice, isn’t it? Among the first ‘rewards’ to come from popping the universe’s hood and having a tinker is the unshakeable understanding that life continues beyond the expiration date stamped onto the side of your meat suit. This is a wonderful life advantage. A helpful one, too....

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    How Cooking With Mister Opus Banishes Ghosts

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    That about sums it up

    Because I clearly have the mental age of a small child, for me it is terribly exciting to discover that people you know are on vacation at the same time as you -even if they are on different continents. (When I read this post I just had to email and say “wheeee! Horay for...

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    How Iona Works: Seven Stories From A Holy Island

    by  •  • History, Life • 6 Comments

    Touching personal displays like this were found all over the island

    Here is how a small guidebook I bought on the ferry to the Isle of Mull opens: A traveller was asked by an old Highland gardener where she had been. When she told him he said “Ay! Iona is a very thin place”. What did he mean, she asked? “There’s no’ much between Iona...

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