Vampires of Time

Society, Psychosis and the Shaman

The Paradigm of Ritual

Gaming – A Return to World of Warcraft
For those readers who perhaps play World of Warcraft you can find me hiding out on the Neptulon server under the guider of Orgrub the Orc – feel free to give me a shout and say hi anytime! I have to say that having not played the game for over 2 years it is quite daunting to now return. What was once a huge game is now even bigger through 3 expansions that have been released over the last 2 years alongside all the additional content in the m

Book Promotion
Hi peeps Well, here is a shameless plug for a friends new book that she has been working on for some time now. If you like your stories with a bit of difference and a pinch of the quirky then look no further. I will let the books write up tell you the rest… “Newlywed Danielle Ainsworth has everything: security, a respectable husband and a lavish lifestyle that she has become accustomed to. Her destiny is to be a Mother, nearing children through artificial insemination. She has no concept of love or sex; all she knows is that the lower class are not to be trusted. Elizabeth Chapman, a lower class young woman born in the slums of Manchester is destined to b

My Equinox
Well, I said a while back that I felt changes in the wind and I guess I should not be surprised at today being a bit of a crazy day for me (please pardon the pun you will later get). The equinox has always been a fascinating time for me – a time when things seem odd, a space beyond space in which the worlds seem to go into an element of flux. I should mention here and now that my opinions of the equinox differ quite a lot from the “accepted norm” of pagan mainstream. Many s

The Magpie and the Cat
Over the summer we had the blessing of having a pair of blackbirds decide to nest in the ivy just outside our bathroom window. This rare opportunity allowed us to see as clear as day the eggs in the nest and ultimately the babies once they hatched. The children found all this very exciting and would check on the nest each day to see how things where coming along. Once they had hatched the children watched in fascination as they where fed, with more than a few “ewwww’s” each time I would explain that t

Secondary School – Education in Social Control
So, the summer holidays have come to an end, this week most children here in the UK will be heading back to school and for us here our daughter will be having her first experience of high school. For her a daunting and worrying time and for us much the same, yet all with that little hint of excitement at something new. That said, secondary school here in the UK has always had a strict code of conduct in regards to uniform and various other factors and it has become quite clear that quite a high