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Gadzooks!

Thirsty knights refreshing themselves at Tewkesbury Medieval Festival Gadzooks! 11th July Early on Sunday I made my way northwards along the Cotswold Edge to the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival, now in i… more →

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Gadzooks! — 1 comment

Bard on a Bike wrote 2 years ago: Thirsty knights refreshing themselves at Tewkesbury Medieval Festival Gadzooks! 11th July Early on S … more →

Tags: bard, Bard on a bike, Britain, Travel, ExtraORDINARY People, Extraordinary places, Seasonal, Ceremony, Druid

Moot and Aboot

Bard on a Bike wrote 2 years ago: Moot and Aboot 28 June-4 July 4 Guys called Oss at the Banbury Hobby Horse Fair It’s been a bu … more →

Tags: bard, Bard on a bike, ExtraORDINARY People, Extraordinary places, Green, Seasonal, Travel, Arts House Cafe, atlantis bookshop

Midsummer Magic

Bard on a Bike wrote 2 years ago: Pipers at the Gates of Dawn `O Mole! the beauty of it! The merry bubble and joy, the thin, clear, ha … more →

Tags: bard, Bard on a bike, Travel, ExtraORDINARY People, Extraordinary places, Seasonal, avebury, Silbury, bath

Awen in the Mountains

Bard on a Bike wrote 3 years ago: Way of Awen weekend Cae Mabon 22-25 April View from the main hall at Cae Mabon - a place of inspirat … more →

Tags: bard, Bard on a bike, Britain, ExtraORDINARY People, Extraordinary places, taliesin, Poetry, Creativity, Snowdonia

Time Flies

Bard on a Bike wrote 3 years ago: The elusive time-traveller - a rare photograph from the chrono-archives Sunday 25th/Monday 26th Octo … more →

Tags: bard, Bardic Poetry, Bard on a bike, ExtraORDINARY People, Extraordinary places, Wookey, Glastonbury Tor, wells, Star Trek

Bardic Picnic

Bard on a Bike wrote 3 years ago: Bardic Picnic, Northampton 2nd August This was the third year I was invited up for the Bardic Picnic … more →

Tags: Bard on a bike, Bardic Contests, bard, Bard of Northampton, bardic picnic, Delapre, Donna Scott, Kevan Manwaring, Northampton

The Fecund Earth — 1 comment

Bard on a Bike wrote 3 years ago: Resurgence Camp 25-26 July Green & Away, Bransford Just returned from an inspiring time at the R … more →

Tags: Bardic Poetry, Bard on a bike, Kevan Manwaring, Jay Ramsay, Fire Springs, Ecobardic, malverns, resurgence, Green and Away

A Wilderness is Heaven — 1 comment

Bard on a Bike wrote 3 years ago: A Wilderness is Heaven: A Week on Exmoor 26 June – 2 July 2009 ‘…where peace smiles, a wilderness is … more →

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Talk in the Mountains — 1 comment

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: 1st-4th May Talk in the Mountains You ask me, ‘Why dwell among green mountains?’ I laugh in silence; … more →

Tags: bard, Bardic Poetry, Bard on a bike, roundhouse, Snowdon, Anthony Nanson, Kevan Manwaring, Storytelling, Fire Springs

Italy - a Longobardo Odyssey

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: 29th March-6th April In the land of the Longobardo! It is hard to know where to begin to sum up my 9 … more →

Tags: bard, Journal, bath, Bathwick, Civvidalle, duino, England, friuli, Hemingway

The Hill of Wells — 6 comments

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: The Hill of Wells 21st March 2009 ‘My eyes made fountains’, John Masefield Looking towards British C … more →

Tags: bard, Bard on a bike, awen, Poetry, walking, Malvern, Elgar, Auden, Masefield

Riding the Awen

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: Badbury Rings 15-16 March Late last night returned from a talk I gave on my book Lost Islands to Sue … more →

Tags: bard, Bard on a bike, Lost Islands, Mendips, Motorbike, badbury rings, bournemouth, Positive Living, Stanton Drew

The Green Wave

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: A rainy Sunday after a shower of creativity this week. Last night I took part in a group book launch … more →

Tags: bard, Journal, ARC, Art, Away Publications, Bath Writers Workshop, Cae Mabon, Concertina Books, Creative

Running the Dragon

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: Running the Dragon 1st March, 2009 Worms' Head - half way point - looking towards the Devil' … more →

Tags: bard, Journal, awen, Dragon, Gower, St Davids Day, taliesin, Wales, Worm's Head

White Rainbow

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: Snow on Bathwick Hill, 5th Jan 09 5th February Just walked back from the station through heavy snow … more →

Tags: bard, Journal, death, bath, winter, snow, Rebirth, Snowmen, Snowball Fights

Inklings of Spring

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: Imbolc, 1st February Today celebrated what is in the Celtic Calendar the beginnings of Spring … more →

Tags: bard, Bardic Poetry, bath, Hearth, Gathering, winter, Imbolc, Ceremony, Ovate

The Bone Orchard — 2 comments

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: At the weekend I went back to the old home town, Northampton, to plant a tree for my Dad with my Mum … more →

Tags: bard, Bardic Poetry, Journal, green burials, memorial trees, Poem, Poetry, Woodland Burials

Return of the King

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: 20th January   A truly historic day, when the world changed: the day President Obama was inaugurated … more →

Tags: bard, Bardic Poetry, Journal, Aretha Franklin, Elizabeth Alexander, Inauguration, Keats, obama, St Agnes Eve

Banishing the Bad Spirits

Bard on a Bike wrote 4 years ago: 18th January On 17th/18th January across Somerset (and these days, as far afield as America) Old Twe … more →

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