Tag Archives: The Silent Eye

Riddles of the Night: Family fortunes?

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Parts One, Two, Three and Four can be found by clicking the highlighted links. Where silver trees have bent their bough O’er sleepy village streets, we go … Continue reading →

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Riddles of the Night: Connections

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Parts One , Two  and Three can be found by clicking the highlighted link. We toured the church in Bakewell with our companions, stopping at each of … Continue reading →

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Riddles of the Night: Knights, saints and ley lines…

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Parts One and Two can be found by clicking the highlighted link. Walking through the town towards the church in Bakewell, I couldn’t help thinking that it … Continue reading →

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Riddles of the Night – A walk in the park…

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Part One can be found by clicking the highlighted link. We began at the well that gave the town its name. Baecca’s Well is an ancient healing … Continue reading →

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Found Mounds…

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* ‘…We didn’t go to High Bradfield to look for a mound we went to High Bradfield for the church there but we found a mound anyway. It was hidden behind the church and was purporting to be a disused … Continue reading →

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Papal Bull…

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Celtic Saint instrumental in the Eucharist of Fish and Loaves?… * The Venerable Bede recorded in his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, a copy of the letter written in 601AD which Pope Gregory sent to Abbot Mellitus, who was part of … Continue reading →

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Songs of the Stone: Talon and Beak…

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …Now, one day the Leinster men were gathering together on their Game-Plain in order to take sport. “Those ravens are making a terrible cackle over there,” said one. “They have been cawing at each other like that for a … Continue reading →

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Songs of the Stone: Bristle and Grunt…

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Sue Vincent

  * Said Keiron-the-Holy to the Ogham Stone of Fergus… “A question, O Fergus Mc Roy, what was the cause of, ‘The Ulster Raid’. Some say it was the curse of two friends deprived of their friendship by the wiles … Continue reading →

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Sleeping Giant…

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Sue Vincent

  …After watching the, again, somewhat recalcitrant sun-up, we decide to head back for breakfast via the cluster of, albeit haphazardly, positioned stones which we have come to call ‘the recumbents’. This is something of a risk, as we do … Continue reading →

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A Prospect of Whitby (3) Touching the Sun ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Sue Vincent

There’s something ‘monumental’ about planning to be high on the vast moorlands of the North Yorkshire National Park at the end of the first week in December. Yet that is exactly what we’ll be doing on the Sunday morning of … Continue reading →

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