Samhain song YouTube video by Nimue Brown

Please enjoy this song from @nimueb.bsky.social It’s been a part of my Samhain celebrations for years now.

youtu.be/utE06CspBC4

Great event in Stroud. (I sang).
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Autumn colour
Shows ghostly
My crunching boots
Reveal sweet decay
Imply bright hues
Lost, remembered, imagined.

A standing monolith in a meadow. There are many holes through the stone and cavities in the surface.

#StandingStoneSunday
The Long Stone near Minchinhampton. At over 7ft high and full of holes and depressions this a fascinating site. Many gifts and offerings are left on it - see photographs below - and I have a request for help with a research project.

A semi transparent cloaked mari going diagonally across a black rectangle

An attempt at a ghostly mari

Druidry and sniffing trees (Nimue) I’ve spent today at Westonbirt Arboretum. It’s a popular place at this time of year as people visit to see the autumn leaves.. Some of the trees in the collection were so dramat…

I can very much recommend tree sniffing for Druids. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/d...

Learning to yield (Nimue) For a person with an interest in Taoism, I’m really not great at knowing when to yield. I’ve been too willing to go along with what other people wanted, and in other wys I&#8217…

Things I am rubbish at and need to learn. Health, mental health and being gentler druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/l...

my brilliant father share new fiction every week

I have the first draft of a folk-against -fascism mumming play!

So it did! And it's bonkers we went from Best New Band to being in Best Band category at all. Bonkers, but thrilled. Thanks as ever to all #Prog Magazine Readers who voted, the Prog Magazine team & our dear cheerleaders @progzilla.com (Still your fault @mikewhitfield.bsky.social 😊)

#Progrock #Music

this brings back fond memories of The Drag King in Yellow.

Today have been putting Shakespeare in a mumming play, and talking about co-writing.

I've read this one and can recommend it.

Communication as virtue (Nimue) One of my recent audio books was about the history of Humanism. This raised the concept of good communication as a virtue, which struck me as being relevant for the bard path. The logic of …

What does it mean to communicate well? One for people on the bard path especially. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

The Quantum Pagan an Introduction Last week, because I don’t have enough to write, I started work on a project that has been kicking about for a few years. While it may never see the light of day, as it is in part a personal …

pagan mysticism, faith and quantum physics
You know, small subjects to start writing a book about...
#paganisum #mystisicm #pagansky #blog #blogsky
#amwriting #writer

markhayesblog.com/2025/10/20/t...

Encountering standing stones All standing stones seem to me to invite touch. The careful placing of hands on rock has always been part of how I respond to these ancient sites. Touching and tracing the contours with affection a…

Druidy, blindness and standing stonrs druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/e...

thank you! I'm still brewing a lot of thoughts about folk horror and archaeology, so I'd love to be able to share that at some point.

it was all very sudden and dramatic, I wes ill, went blind... there have been ops, I'm a bit better but pretty messed up, annoyingly.

thank you. I can't figure out how to get the chat on here big enough that I can read it, unhelpfully!

Visit Nimue Brown's Shop! I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

Alongside this madcap project there are novels, poetry collections and Druidry books in my shop , all with pagan and animist elements. ko-fi.com/O4O3AI4T/shop

I have realised that as a person who can barely see I'm going to have a harder time of it making my stuff accessible for other people with different issues - as reading for a talk is now nigh on impossible, producing a text script for one is a bit more awkward for example. I shall learn.

If anyone wonders whether people care about at accessibility at conferences, I'll point out that my post on accessibility at the conference immediately has more responses than conference post itself.

Make your stance loud and clear.

Also... actually make your conference accessible.

I am going to happen to you :-)

If you've followed me and I know you but I've not followed you back, please wave. I've been offline for months due to blindness (still can't see much) and I may have missed people. If I don't know you but you want to fix that then pleasealso wave.

Connecting with the land (Nimue) This is a recent photo of Keith and myself on Rodborough common – a hilltop near our home. It was the first time I’d tried walking up there since the vision loss. I can’t …

Druidry and blindness druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c...

#inktober day 14 'Trunk'

The memory of an Oak is written within
Unseen til death
Memories of
sunrise and sunset
hard winters
dark summers
gentle rain
plenty and drought
More changes than our memory ever holds
And now
We trace those years with our fingers, touching history we can only imagine

thank you. I am having a tough week, but also having that grief response of just wanting to hug the living close while I can.

they always make me think of a much appreciated ancestor who had one in her garden.

Creativity – keeping it real (Nimue) At the point where I started doing Patreon, I was in a rough place. I’d had some massive blows to my confidence as a creator. I was working a number of not very creative part time jobs, and…

If you can support someone, or something in a small way, that's a good choice. Keeping people going and keeping good things happening makes a difference. druidlife.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/c...

This! And adding: Don’t forget about local action. It’s much easier to see the results of your work on a local/community scale vs. a national scale. Doesn’t mean national action isn’t important, but if you’re feeling dismayed because “nothing makes a difference,” that’s much less true locally.