How was your Midnight Feast? We had a marvellous time, and here it is, in full colour just for you! We started the making with some old books for inspiration and a cup of chamomile tea. Well, can’t get too over-excited before the feast begins!  We decided cakes were needed. Linus loves cakes and I don’t have a sweet tooth at all. But I suppose can you call them cakes if they don’t have sugar/ flour/ eggs/ anything nasty? These were made of buckwheaties, dried apricot, plums from our friend’s tree which we picked and dried last Autumn all mixed up with coconut and coconut butter. We made the macaroons…

Wishcasting Wednesday: What do you wish to do one day? So I am ‘making magic and tending wishes’ with her here at gracequantock.com this bright windy day. Grab your wand, your wishing powder and your deepest dreams. We are making magic, babies! I cast my wish this day… I wish for connection for all those in the world who are lonely and new day breaks for all survivors. I wish to fulfil my dream list by: Swimming in the sea, (planned for next summer) Learning to speak italian, (first, french with grandma, next italian!) Travelling to France. Learning to play the harp. (This harp, I delight in it, we are…

Where are you over-full and what do you need less of in your life?  Babble, information-over load, a cacophony of voices, desires and opinions filling our world. In years past if you only knew the people in your village, and perhaps the next village, the number of noise sources was much less.  On the radio the news was old and somehow less heart-renting with it. I don’t think we need around the clock reports, or newspaper headlines celebrating death and destruction. For a year I took a break from all media sources which were not women-positive and aligned with peace and sense.  I read a lot of zines, of books…