-
11 January, 2022 by katelaity
FAIRY BOOK CLUB For advice on readings airy, Always ask a fairy. For recommendations from a satyr, Your caution must …
Continue reading
Category: poetry
| Tags: Absolute Twaddle, British Library, comedy, doggerel, fairie, fairy, fairy illustrations, folklore, humour, Kit Marlowe, rhyme, silliness
-
27 July, 2021 by katelaity
A FAIRY’S REQUITAL So you chose to insult Morgaine — What a callow feckless sap! She rides even now her …
Continue reading
Category: humour, poetry
| Tags: Absolute Twaddle, absurdity, British Library, doggerel, fairy, fairy illustrations, humour, morgan le fay, poetry
-
29 October, 2019 by katelaity
Halloween Steed Devil’s Night approaches We must prepare to ride! Saddle up my mighty steed Then you fly by my …
Continue reading
Category: apologies, holidays, humour, Kit Marlowe, poetry, writing
| Tags: Absolute Twaddle, Apologies, British Library, cats, fae, faerie, fairie, fairy, fairy illustrations, George MacDonald, ghosts, Halloween, interlude, Kit Marlowe, poetry, spirits, spooky
-
3 September, 2019 by katelaity
Hope (Feathers Not Required But Helpful) Hope, a thing with feathers, So Emily did opine. They help to get it …
Continue reading
Category: apologies, Kit Marlowe, poetry
| Tags: Absolute Twaddle, Apologies, art, books, Emily Dickinson, fae, faerie, fairie, fairy, fun, hope, humour, inspiration, interlude, Kit Marlowe, poetry, vapours
-
9 July, 2019 by katelaity
Thomas the Rhymer I TRUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank; A ferlie he spied wi’ his e’e; And there he …
Continue reading
Category: Kit Marlowe, poetry
| Tags: British Library, fae, faerie, fairy, Lizzie Lawson, magic, poetry, prophecy, rhyme, Scotland, scots, Scottish, Thomas the Rhymer
-
2 July, 2019 by katelaity
ELFIN MAGIC Magic is such a bother. It seldom turns out right. You shape a little glow worm But it …
Continue reading
Category: apologies, Kit Marlowe, poetry, publications, reading
| Tags: Absolute Twaddle, art, books, British Library, dragons, elf, elves, fae, faerie, fairie, fairy, fun, grimoires, humour, inspiration, magic, magicians, news, poetry
-
30 April, 2019 by katelaity
Witches Fly Walpurgisnacht the witches fly You’d do best to let them by They head for mountains black and blue …
Continue reading
Category: adventure, apologies, humour, Kit Marlowe, poetry
| Tags: Absolute Twaddle, Apologies, art, faerie, fairy, fun, Hecate, Hekate, inspiration, interlude, magic, music, news, Nicnevin, poetry, travel, walpurgisnacht, witch, witchcraft, witches, Witches Reel
-
5 March, 2019 by katelaity
When Isobel met the Fairie Queene To know the secrets she was keen; But the Gentry have to test one …
Continue reading
Category: Kit Marlowe, poetry, writing
| Tags: Absolute Twaddle, fairie, Fairie Queene, fairy, interlude, Isobel Gowdie, Kit Marlowe, magic, poetry, Scotland, Scottish, witchcraft
-
26 February, 2019 by katelaity
Another episode of the strange adventures with Tansy Popkin, who was sometimes a man and sometimes a woman: Our adventurers are led to Leicester by a fox spirit…
Category: Another thrilling episode
| Tags: Abbess Hild, adventure, comedy, fairie, fairy, folklore, Folklore Thursday, folktales, Francis Sutton-Grove, Hartlepool, historical, humour, Kit Marlowe, Leicester, magic, magicians, Scotland, Scottish, serial, serial novel, The Height of Absurdity, travel
-
19 February, 2019 by katelaity
Another episode of the strange adventures with Tansy Popkin, who was sometimes a man and sometimes a woman: Our adventurers are led to Leicester by a fox spirit…
Category: Another thrilling episode
| Tags: Abbess Hild, adventure, comedy, fairie, fairy, folklore, Folklore Thursday, folktales, Francis Sutton-Grove, Hartlepool, historical, humour, Kit Marlowe, Leicester, magic, magicians, Scotland, Scottish, serial, serial novel, The Height of Absurdity, travel