Sat/Sun 10/11 July 2010, visit 66

A special visit this time to celebrate a landmark birthday a few days later, my half century on the planet.

Arwen and I have had the most lovely weekend in Glastonbury. We got up at the crack of doom yesterday but it was worth it as we were there just after 10 so had a whole day to do things. Drinks at Hepaheys on arrival, shopping, checked in at the George and Pilgrims and then freshened up a bit. Then had two lovely hours in the Chalice Well Gardens with a little visit to the Goddess Temple. 

Then in the evening it was to The Tor where my friends from home, Anne and her hubby Geoff,  blog friends Anita and Sue and Sue's  parner Si joined us for the Picnic on the Tor. It was blowy up there, it is always blowy to some degree up there but we managed to find a sheltered spot just below the brow of the hill, though there was a danger of there being low flying paper plates over Somerset. A beagle dog came and joined us too! We ate and drank and made merry. The sun decided not to play and went down behind a cloud but we didn't mind. Then at the foot of the tor at dusk we batwatched for a while, and saw a few, think they were all pippistrelles. Thank you all for coming, it was just what I wanted to do for my landmark birthday, it was lovely :)) 

On Sunday Arwen and I had a lovely cooked breakfast at the hotel, then as we didn't have to check out till 10.30, we left our cases there and had a little wander to the Abbey shop and a drink at Heapheys before heading back to Bristol on the bus. And there we parted ways :(( Arwen flew back to Inverness and is safely home now... but is coming back next year :)) I got the train to Didcot where I then had to sit for an our because some brain dead eejit or eejits decided that placing an obstruction on the line at West Drayton would be fun, and all the trains were delayed. I drank my bottle of iced tea and had a snack, and read my book so it wasn't too bad. Got home about 3.20.

We think our bathroom was haunted too. It was behind a very mysterious black door in the corner of our room (we had the Monks Cell). First Arwens bottle of shampoo was in the sink and there was no way it could have fallen in there. Then something I had definitely put in the bin was lying on the floor. Then my towels were on the floor and I left them hanging on the towel rail. In the middle of the night I could hear noises which sounded as if they were coming from our bathroom, it sounded like someone getting a drink of water... but Arwen was all tucked up in her bed asleep. We could hear slight noises from the bathroom next door, but the ones in the night really did sounds as if they were in our bathroom.



Re-re-re-re reading my fave book of all time at the Chalice Well









Arwen in the gardens






The picnic party minus Si who took the photo



Lots of scrummy food (and we took all our rubbish home with us!!)



Us minus Geoff who took the photo this time



Si and the dog who joined us



Sue and Si



Arwen and I- we both wore bindis



Arwen, Anita, Sue, Si, Geoff and Anne



Me in our haunted room

Three Goddesses in Glastonbury, 26/27 May 2010, visit 65

Magical visit to Glastonbury with Marta and Dana, 26/27 May 2010. We stayed at the George and Pilgrims, watched sunset from the Tor (almost, it was cloudy) then spent a wonderful 20 minutes or so watching bats and photographing orbs at the foot of the Tor. On Thursday we went to the Chalice Well and spent a couple of hours there. We all did lots of shopping too which must have helped the Glastonbury economy :) We all travel with cuddly toys, the fluffies, mine is Horatio Hare. 


It was Marta and Dana's first visit too and they loved it there and have been back since too (they live in Switzerland)

Saturday 27th Frb 2010, visit 64

I went down for the day with Michele, my neighbour who has become a very good friend (and we share the same birth date too!)


Michele and I had a lovely day. We got a taxi to the station, got the 9.50 bus and were in Glastonbury just after 11. It was a bit showery so we started off with coffee in Heaphey's, and a wander round the shops. I bought Glastonbury and Fae magazines, and a couple of cards, plus a couple of things which will be on the way to Marta this week :)) I also got some more tea tree oil in Star Child, I use it a lot so I wanted some to keep in the bathroom, a self esteem workbook reduced to £1.00 which I thought would be very useful at the moment, and a gold bird. 

We had lunch in the Who'd A Thought It Inn. I had a cheese and tuna panini, and very nice it was too.

Then we went sightseeing. It was very wet for a time so we were going to go to the Chalice Well first then decide about the Tor but it stoppped raining on the way. So we climbed the tor and part way up it began to rain really hard! I realised.. I had never been on the Tor in rain before. My umbrella decided to die but Michele had a hood on her coat so she put that up and loaned me hers so I stayed semi dry. But after we had been on the top a while the rain stopped, and the visibilty was brilliant, you could see the hills of south Wales, only about the second time I had seen that. It was then sunshine and showery and I wished so hard to see a rainbow.. and we did. Only a bit of one over towards Wells and it didn't last long but I did get a couple of photos. There were also a lot of sheep grazing on the Tor and as we were descending they suddenly decided they wanted to all be on the other side so we watched mass sheep movement. Michele is a very keen photographer so she took a lot of photos and by coincidence I did too!

Then we went to the Chalice Well gardens where the crocuses and snowdrops were out and the daffs just starting to come up. I made a discovery there. I found there is a channel of water which I had never seen before! It runs from the waterfall in King Arthur's Courtyard, round behind the healing pool, then round to where the door which I call the Faery Door is. All those years I have been going and I had never seen it before.

Then the sun came out so we went to the Abbey and had a lovely 45 minutes taking photos in the late afternoon sun. Good journey home and as the evenings are drawing out we got most of the way back to Bristol in daylight.




In Heaphys