PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. Check it out. Sometimes amusing, sometimes heartbreaking.

http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/

This was actually recorded Winter Solstice 2006, but I came across it and had to share. Have a listen, its beautiful, and what an unusual instrument.

http://www.thecoven.biz/

Plug plug pluggety plug. Pagan centre with shop, vegetarian cafe, and a programme of workshops, training, moots, open rituals, classes and groups. Went to visit them in half term with partner and child, and it has a really nice warm atmosphere and lovely friendly people. Enjoyed the mushroom burgers and the coffee in the cafe - the first place I have ever found with triple certified coffee - fairtrade, organic AND rainforest alliance marked.

“Think outside the box.”
Hell,
Get out of the box silly.

Lomo Togo
http://www.hobotraveler.com/newsletter/archives/200-issue-what-i-have-learned-lome-togo

From the Terence Higgins Trust -

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PSHEcampaign/

PSHE promotes the emotional, social and health development of children and young people. Evidence shows that PSHE helps young people’s academic learning and helps them develop skills for employment, promotes health, well-being and safety, and promotes inclusion and community cohesion.

However, some schools are not prioritising PSHE as it is not a foundation subject. As a result, many children in this country are not being given the opportunity to acquire information on a range of health issues such as sex and relationships education, diet and exercise, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; nor are schools prioritising the development of children and young people’s emotional and social skills; nor are students being offered the chance to explore and clarify values and beliefs including respect, morality and an understanding of cultural diversity.

Please lend your name to this petition to help ensure all young people are given the skills they need to live healthy and fulfilling lives.

Think young people already get a good enough sex education in the UK? See http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/uni+students+clueless+on+condoms/461607

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/222/popup/index.php?cl=2200972#
and
http://www.stardustmovie.com/site.htm

squeee!
(Neil Gaiman.... + loadsd of cool actors)

Many blessings to all my friends. Wishing you all the very best for 2007.

Ceri. xxx

Sang 'Hey Mr President' by Pink very loudly Tues night while washing up after Belly dancing, having heard good news re US mid-terms, and Rumselds resignation. Couldn't remember enough to sing this one, but played it at work today.

When The President Talks To God

by Bright Eyes


When the President talks to God,
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women's rights?
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike?
When the President talks to God?

When the President talks to God,
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is he resolute on down the line?
Is every issue black or white?
Does what God say ever change his mind?
When the President talks to God?

When the President talks to God,
Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
Agree which convicts should be killed?
Where prisons should be built and filled?
Which voter fraud must be concealed?
When the President talks to God?

When the President talks to God,
I wonder which one plays the better cop?
"We should find some jobs the ghetto's broke",
"No they're lazy George I say we don't,
Just give em' more liquor stores and dirty coke",
That's what God recommends.

When the President talks to God,
Do they drink near beer and go play golf?
While they pick which countries to invade,
Which Muslim souls still can be saved?
I guess God just calls a spade a spade,
When the President talks to God?

When the President talks to God,
Does he ever think that maybe He's not?
That that voice is just inside his head?
When he kneels next to the Presidential bed,
Does he ever smell his own bullshit?
When the President talks to God?

I doubt it.

Then say hi here!

I'm unlikely to friend you back if I don't know you. But maybe I might if it looks like we have loads in common! Or if you are friends with my friends.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wicker_man/

and

http://www.druidry.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=17325

so, you think they didn't like it then?

Dear friends,

Right now a tragedy is unfolding in the Middle East. Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed or wounded in the bombings in Lebanon, Palestine and Israel and the death toll is rising every day. If the US, Syria or Iran get involved, there is a chance of a catastrophic larger war.   UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an immediate ceasefire and the deployment of international troops to the Israel-Lebanon border, and been strongly supported by almost every world leader. This is the best proposal yet to stop the violence, but the US, the UK, and Israel have refused to accept it. I have just signed a petition calling on US President Bush, UK Prime Minister Blair, and Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to support Kofi Annan's proposal. If millions of people join this call, and we advertise our views in newspapers in the US, UK, and Israel, we can help pressure these leaders to stop the fighting. Please go to the link below and sign up now!

http://www.ceasefirecampaign.org

This is a cut and paste but I agree with it wholeheartedly. Apparently so do the vast majority of the government, including the Labour party MP's many of whom have signed this petition according to the Independant.

Ceri. x

Ha ha ha! Check out this pic!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=395610&in_page_id=1770

Snagged with thanks to crystalsage who snagged from scarlett78 who snagged from murnkay who snagged from ysabel who... Ok, I am not doing this again.

Scarlett78's title was "This baby knows exactly how all Americans feel."

Lol.

The Charge of the Goddess (of Coffee)

by S G Fisher, from http://sgfisher.blogspot.com/2006/03/charge-of-goddess-of-coffee.html

fluterbev I am sooo thinking of you here, as well as myself and my dearest significant other, also known around many local cafe's as 'cappuccino man'.

( its funnier if you are familiar with the prose Charge of the Goddess by Doreen Valiente - eg see http://www.branwenscauldron.com/shadows_charge.html)

I've made this post public so Sarah can see any comments!

( I want this on a caffetiere cover)

Ceri. x

OMG!! I just found http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/
and http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/
*goes a bit funny at the thought of free online Neil Gaiman stories and bookmarks it for later*
Yes, I am a fan.

3 little girls with dissociative psychosis..

http://www.cheshirecrossing.net/

Love it! *cheshire cat grin*

Thanks to cavalorn and wyrdrune

Who else is love?

pseudomonas me scripsit anno 2005

How cool is that?

You scored as Romantic Goth. You are a romantic goth, better known as a tradtional goth. You are probably quickly identified as a goth by outsiders. Black lace, bats, and moonlit cemetaries are just a few of your favorite things. </td> Romantic Goth 63% Understanding Outsider 50% Fantasy Goth 50% Old-school Goth 42% Anything-Goes Goth 42% Industrial/Rivet-Head 38% Perky Goff 38% Confused Outsider 29% Cyber-goth 21% Death Rocker 21% Ethereal Goth 21% What subcategory of Goth best fits you? created with QuizFarm.com

Ha ha. I did answer as honestly as I could, so I am suprised what a high score I got on some of this, I'd rate myself as an 'understanding outsider' / wannabe who is attracted to Goth style, has been to a few Goth club nights, ( I'd go more often if I had a car) reads a lot of Vampire novels and fantasy generally and occasionally likes to ( and gets to ) dress romantic goth. That's about as far as it goes.