Llwynoges’ Weblog

I recently went to the OBOD winter gathering in Glastonbury with a friend of mine. It’s the second time I’ve been along. It was really good and I met up with several people whom I’d met last year and from a workshop held on the Easter weekend.

On the Friday night we went down to the hall to help bring in supplies for the party and hang up banners. Damh and Ceri had seen to it that most things had been taken care of by the time we had arrived. From the banners we could see that some people had come over from New Zealand. Later, we went to get some food. Most of us ended up in the George and Pilgrim. It was there that I was spotted by Neil and his friend Quinn from the Catuvellauni Grove (I was pretty much adopted by Catuvellaunii last year). We saw Neil a lot from that point onwards over the weekend!

The saturday was a full day, with an early start in the drizzle at Chalice Well, talks and stalls in the afternoon and a fantastic party in the evening, featuring a pantomime performed by the Appleseed Grove, performance poetry, storytellers, music and dancing at the end of the night. By the end of the night Daru had become unforgettable, Shaun’s back had righted itself, Neil had won the big prize in the charity raffle and Scott had worked out where he knew me from. I gave him some mistletoe before he left.

On sunday I went back to the Chalice Well with Kim. She was feeling more settled than at the beginning of the weekend. She is currently working with the element of earth. I slowed her something I thought might help. We looked at the plants for a while, collected some water from the red and white springs, then walked up the tor – the steep way – extra kudos to us! We felt some achievement when we’d reached the top, but it was a little bit cold and blustery up there so we didn’t stay there too long. I walked back with my hood up, trying to warm my ears back up.