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Willow
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: WillowOK – That’s utterly terrifying. The willow has arrived. And I have absolutely no idea what to do with it this year. A sun obviously.THE SUN.But … that’s as far as I’ve got. Time seems to be screaming past like an Atlantic storm.
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We Make This
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: We Make This… together. The Daily Mail wants everyone to believe that communities don’t exist anymore.That the church is an ethnic-identity badge – a rallying cry without a spiritual or moral core. They want everyone to believe that christians and modern pagans, muslims and jews, buddhists and humanists, atheists and believers can’t laugh and dance and love together.That the world is falling apart – torn down by rampaging hordes of woke hippies and socialists, the dim and deluded … even … women! They don’t really believe in anything but they hate us because we prove them wrong. If you can, please drop…
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We stand together against the Mail
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: We stand together against the MailI have a sordid vision seared into my brain: a slack, spindly old creep sat, straining, on the loo in the sickly light of a street lamp through coloured glass, in his ragged and stained 3 piece tweed pyjamas, pants pooled round his blue feet, bent double peering at the portable typewriter on the marble floor. Alternating between frotting frantically between his shrunken thighs and tapping away with his toes on the keys, unsure whether self gratification or cruel giggles will cure his insomnia or fill the gaping void. On the wall behind him is an arrangement of photographic portraits…
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The Gathering
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: The GatheringFinally feels like autumn now – rising before the sun, mind and body starting to shut down half way through the afternoon as the light fades again – slow to adjust. Time to turn our minds to Montol in earnest. Sourcing, mending, fettling, making, tweaking, learning, rehearsing, remembering, inventing and reinventing.Paperwork and maps, permissions and insurance and plans.Getting worried … getting excited. Now start the sleepless nights. Oh well – it will be worth it. First thing:Don’t forget that this year Montol is on a Monday. And Second:The Gathering will be on Saturday 28 November at the Union on Chapel…
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Equinox – Kehysnos
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: Equinox – KehysnosNot so much balance – as change – the endless circle of night and day, summer and winter. Being still enough to hear the fire and the owls in the valley, the night creatures in the undergrowth, cows coughing and farting, still enough to feel the earth turn. Tonight here is quiet and warm and still.Safe. We hope that you are warm and safe too.
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Guldize
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: GuldizeThat was fun. Can’t remember the last time I danced my socks off and ended up, with a bunch of mates, filling my face with a kebab at 1:00 in the morning. So, in order of appearance, huge love and thanks to Phil and Matt, Alex and the magnificent Raffidy Dumitz Band; Raffidy again and Phil; Alex and Tros an Treys. And to Simon. And to all of you who came, and danced and laughed and helped the world to turn and cheered her as she did. All of you who gave raffle presents and to Lee and Rachel and…
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Guldize – Montol Troyl
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: Guldize – Montol TroylJust a reminder for Saturday. There will be cocks in britches … and kilts – cries in Cornish and most of the responses in authentic Penzance gibberish. There will be gooks and flatcaps, vegetal head-dresses and witchy veils. There will be music courtesy of The Raffidy Dumitz Band and Tros an Treys – called dances and chaotic ones and ones which are both. And there will be the famous Guldize Raffle with prizes ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous – the proceeds of which will go towards that aforementioned obscure midwinter festival. To be honest, now it’s all arranged…
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Guldize – Troyl
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: Guldize – TroylAs usual the highlight of the Guldize/Troyl evening, on 19th September, will be … drumroll please … the Raffle. So – Montol – your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to supply a cornucopia of produce for prizes. Your hand-picked fruit, home-grown vegetables, lovingly nurtured through the fiery summer months perhaps. Your home-made preserves and harvest loaves (with or without field mouses) … and I do know a few of you make mead and cider – some of which is even safe to drink. And it would be lovely to sample some Guldize cakes and puddings – which…
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The Montol Troyl
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: The Montol TroylHey Montol Like the soft refreshing rain and swaddling veil of the fog – all things come around again … On Saturday 19 September we have our annual Troyl In the Ballroom, upstairs at the Union Hotel in Chapel Street – at 7pm Music and dancing, silliness and merry meetings. Almost exactly 3 months before our beautiful big night – time to look to masks and guise, dance steps and lyrics, music and ideas. Everyone is very welcome – and it’s free! Creaking and cranking into gear again … Do come along if you can.
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Phew!
CONTINUE READING AND COMMENT →: Phew!Hey Montol! The omens were favourable, the auguries clear… and the civic elders spoke … Team Montol is very happy and very relieved to report that Penzance Council has once again seen fit to support the most ancient business of driving out the darkness with masks, music, mischief and magic … and a touch of madness. Montol is on. As though it was ever going to be otherwise. And it was almost unanimous … Our heartfelt thanks to Mayor Andy Law, Councillors Penny Young, Jim McKenna, Stephen Reynolds, Simon Reed, and James Hardy our Town Clerk.They said such lovely things…
