The Pippins Take Up Dancing With Lights

The Pippins had to get in on the act with all these dancing shows on TV at the moment. The Pippins wanted to put on a dancing act of their own - where they could show their four legged skills to the best advantage.

Completely Vegan Microwave Pudding

This is a picture of a completely vegan pudding. We added sultanas and cherries to make a nut free Christmas pudding. The problem is that some vegetarians and vegans cannot eat nuts or soya products and a lot of alternative food for the veggie market contains soya/tofu or nuts in some form or another which still are not suitable for many people who are looking for alternatives to meat.

The occultist Dion Fortune had another interest outside of magick and this was developing soya products. She actually wrote a book called 'The Soya Bean' and her father - lawyer, hotelier and chess player Arthur Firth - a distant member of the Sheffield steel Firth family, put money up for her husband Dr Penry Evans to further develop the soya bean as a food. However, civil war broke out in Spain where he had set up his studies with soya beans and Dr Evans was forced to abandon expensive equipment and leave the country.

The problem is that some veggie people are allergic to soya and tofu products as well as nuts and lots of well meaning alternative 'veggie' recipes contain these items.

The pudding above which can be made in various forms, is completely vegan as well as being soya and nut free. It is also made in the microwave for much faster results.

The Pippins Join In With Brother Darklight

I include a link on this blog to our sister blog, called Brother Darklight And Rebecca. The Pippins are thoroughly enjoying their Christmas to-doodles, posing with a cute and incredibly Christmassy little snow house and we have some further pictures on our other blog that fit a slightly more shady Christmas mood.....

See also:
Brother Darklight and Rebecca

Crackingly Alternative Christmas Cards

I bought these Christmas cards from a Gothic shop and then basically dare'nt send them to anyone I know in case they were offended - so I ended up having to buy some more traditional cards to send out.
Thing is - I love these cards - 'Have A Sinister Christmas' is my favourite. Then there is another one with zombie snowmen on it, Steampunk Santa drives his sleigh and some woman that can't stand Christmas had a good cry. Gorgeous Christmas cards!

Colour Changing Doggy And Friends In Party Mood

These lovely little colour changing creatures were in full swing party mood the other day, when they had a special get together and catch up with each other. They are really delightful little things - it is as if they are sitting having meaningful conversations about secret liaisons that no human could know about!

Not A Happy Christmas For Turkeys And Reindeer

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We staunchly support Animal Aid and are completely against exploiting animals, birds or creatures. in any way at all. We think it is cruel to breed turkeys for Christmas and to exploit poor reindeer. Animal Aid has video of someone kicking an emaciated reindeer at a farm in the UK. There is a very good live feed from a rescue farm in New York State showing rescued sheep and turkeys.

See also:
Sheep Barn Live
Turkey Barn Live

Punctilious Pippin, The KLF And The Lords Of Chaos In Blogger Mahem

In my days of working in a heavy metal/rock nightclub, customers used to ask for a drink called a 'Red Witch' which as far as I can remember, was lager, cider and blackcurrant cordial all in the same glass. It was a very popular drink at the time, for some people, but it looked positively lurid. All the 'glasses' were plastic and Budweiser (a bottle of 'Bud') was usually consumed straight from the bottle.
Slayer were a popular band to have their music blasted through the speakers as were many other forms of screeching delights. There was a good atmosphere and all the staff and customers were friendly. All the staff dressed up and got in to the spirit of things too, so no one felt like a wallflower at a wedding.

There days many bar tenders seem to wear uniforms or dowdy clothing and they don't always look too happy. it would be far better if they could dress to suit their personalities.

Another time I worked at a completely different kind of establishment. it was a 'fun bar' where the staff  again dressed up and at the end of the night danced standing on the bar itself. Unfortunately I once accidentally kicked a man - one of the customers, on the head whilst doing the dance routine, but he was ok about it, luckily.

And I also worked in a number of 'club music' style nightclubs - essentially as I love music - all kinds of music - from chart music to classical music and Indian music. it all resonates like the music of the spheres.

Music frees the soul and so many people are told to shut up when they sing and have their voices judged by others when really it is about making your own heavenly noise and connecting to the universe in your own unique way, more than hitting notes and being pitch perfect. Just let that sound out and have a good screech. The same goes for playing musical instruments - who cares if you can't play the thing properly, just have some fun with it!

I partially taught myself to play guitar by strumming along to the likes of Jimmy Hendrix and other rock songs from the 60's, on an electric guitar I got from the supermarket back in 2008. It was one of those cheap ones and when we plugged in the practice speaker that went with it - it blew up immediately.

 Of course I admit I hadn't a clue what to do with the guitar really and I didn't want to learn the conventional way so I just played by ear. I don't read music so I hadn't a clue either about 'E' strings, or 'B' strings and didn't want to know because loads of people can play conventionally and some are pretty good to be fair but I suppose I just like being different! I did it my way - and still do - so to speak.
 I have a few guitars now - all played very unconventionally and sometimes used for magick music or ceremonial music too and if a string snaps - yes apparently the 'E; string has a tenancy to do this - my son has to change it for me - because I don't know how. But I want to keep things like that - as it keeps the sound connection to spirit more 'pure'. Older men are often seen in 'guitar bands' grizzlingly playing along happily, but older women, or much older women, in these kind of bands are a rarity because really, raunchy guitar playing is still seen generally as a 'man thing' any age of man thing too.
I'm talking the serious stuff  - not the young lady poseur with  the pink stratocaster - though good on her nonetheless.

Pippin wasn't too sure about the Lords Of Chaos or the KLF and he certainly didn't like the sheep thing (Well known stunt by the KLF - we support Animal Aid.