Saturday 23 August 2014

Dolmen Grove Tribal Dreams day 2

Toni and I woke up quite early this morning and set out for a full english (gluten free) breakfast from Poppy's. What a wonderful way to start the day!

Zoe went off to do the kids workshop and Toni started to prepare for her crochet one leaving me at a bit of a loose end so I just wandered around chatting to folk. Toni's crochet workshop was well attended:

I offered to supply some extra drums to the kids workshop only to find myself getting roped into doing some drumming with them myself. I didn't mind but it was a bit unexpected especially as I had to play a djembe which I had never used before.


It was actually great fun and it turned out that the work being done was for the kids to present their own ceremony later in the day! Great stuff!

There was some time for relaxation between kids and crochet workshops though including a chance for more gluten free goodness at Poppy's.

The afternoon was spent listening to Professor Ronald Hutton doing a talk on labyrinths. As usual it was very interesting.

The kids ceremony was absolutely wonderful. It was a real pleasure to have been involved in something so special and they all did very well especially as it had all been put together in a few hours.

..and here it is:


In the evening it was time to get the glad rags on and go and watch The Dolmen play. As usual this was an electrically charged performance. Following on from this everyone got together for an awesome fire ceremony. This one was really special. All the Dolmen Grove moots performed a piece including Essex and all went very well. So proud of everyone from the Essex moot for putting on a good show.

As the moot performances were coming to a close we were treated to a beautiful shooting star which just added more magick to the proceedings. Then came the fire:

As for the rest of the evening... there was mead, there was singing, there was talking, there was sitting around the fire. Great times with great company!


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