It's overrated. 
Well... today is Winter Solstice. After today, daylight time starts getting longer (by seconds!) again until Midsummer. The light is returning.
Maybe that's a symbolic thing for many of us on here at this time.
I hope so.
We could all use a little light.
If they made a film about Vampire Scampi, I'd be first in line!
The glass topped 'well' table is worth looking down in the Avebury pub.
Yeah it's pretty cool. People literally hang over the people sitting on it! A bit rude, but what did they expect sitting over a 600+ year old well! I just have a peek if there's no-one sitting there. It's quite funny watching people get frustrated both looking at it and sitting there trying not to be bothered. I'd imagine there have been a few arguments!
Last time I went there they had this bizarre picture of Yvette Fielding. Most Haunted did a show there apparently.
I usually pop in the Red Lion for one or two, it's a bit full for me sometimes, then go to the Waggon for food, and more drinks. The Waggon is much better food and drink wise. The Red Lion does have it's tourist attraction thing though, you have to go in really for the experience.
I just googled Findhorn. It seems like a very interesting place.
Yeah, it's a really nice place to spend the day. I lived just outside Forres near to the bay. We'd fish at Findhorn. Camp on the dunes, watch the weather change, the sunsets and sunrises. If you are on the side of the bay opposite from the town you can see old WW1 boats that were left to rot. They look pretty cool. The Foundation is pretty interesting, but it's best to know a few people before you go wandering around. They aren't arseholes, but it's their home, and they do get a bit pissed at the place being treated like a tourist attraction. Understandable really. I knew a few of them from the pubs, and through my girlfriends family.
The Foundation sort of dominates what the place is. Interesting for a small while. In my mind it was just a minor thing, the surrounding area was the real thing of interest. I'd sit there all day and watch nature do it's thing. The coast and the bay, sort of interplay, and make the weather shift. I love the whole coastline there. Findhorn has the weirdest weather though.
I remember one day seeing a rainbow, then a vermillion, orange, scarlet, splattered sunset, then some of the most clear skies later on in the evening. Beautiful.
I'm not sure I really fit into 'commune' style living. No matter how congenial they might be otherwise, or how democratic or anarchic, inevitably there will be the usual egos, cliques, infighting.
From what I knew if your face didn't fit, or if you picked an argument with the wrong person, you were shuffled off quite quickly. I'd say it would be a place to research before you went. You would have to fit into their model, not the other way around. The people with clout there say what goes. The Lorian movement pretty much had all the marbles.
Also, let's not forget werewolves!
I've just been watching on the horror channel, the film HOWL. Where a late night broken down train is attacked by werewolves and the passengers & crew struggle to survive till daylight.
Lot of phombies in the south east...
We have some zombies in Herne Bay.
Yes. It's quite long-established now. I remember, back in my more eco direct action days in the early '90s reading a lot about Findhorn and wanting to visit. I never did. I suppose it would be like Rainbow Valley or any other place like that, though. I'm not sure I really fit into 'commune' style living. No matter how congenial they might be otherwise, or how democratic or anarchic, inevitably there will be the usual egos, cliques, infighting. I've experienced it so much in life - even in movements, like animal rights, where you might expect some consensus based on a common goal.
That's not to downplay the ideas and principles of these places, though. At least they offer an alternative to life in the 'real' world (I mean 'real' very loosely!)
I just googled Findhorn. It seems like a very interesting place.
One of my oldest friends has problems with OCD and finds the sending and receiving of cards a bit stressful (I got a card from him in mid november). I've written his card first and posted it just now with a first class stamp. That's the important one. The rest can wait till later. 
Will check it out if it's not too crowded.
The glass topped 'well' table is worth looking down in the Avebury pub.
Thank you Yttrium but I have the dreaded tv on, watching Ben fogles, new lives in the wild, re runs if cosrse, this one is a man who opted out of mainstream to live deep down south in America, swamps and woods, he lives rough, bathes naked, doesn’t work, just exists, he said he thought back to when he was most happy, it was a a child in the woods in a tree house he built, so that’s what he did.
Not exactly roughing it, has a truck, wears trainers, carry’s a revolver, playing st it but still fairly rough...
there are some very good ones, I want to change my life, opt out, that’s whats keeping me awake, as well as a million other things,
thank you for your suggestion though, it is nice to just hang around on here, even though it’s very quite,, shhhh don’t wake all the others.
Way back when I first joined I would wish every one a good night and to reassure them all I would do a walk around, checking the doors and tucking anyone in that needed it, I think it helped some to know I was there, keeping an eye out, checking to see All was well. Sometimes I would take one of them with me for a walk around checking everything was locked and safe.
Lovely times, I so miss some of my old friends, misfit or missy and spotty tortoise, we all joined about the same time, we would sail off to autopia in a big ship. Crewed by ourselves. Big kids but full of fun and caring.
my signature sign off was x()x()x()x()x.
take care .
Each to thier own, glad you have something you find enjoyable and that it is so controlled.
I am sure old Walt Dis in ney Mind who comes so long as they are happy. Lol.(sorry couldn’t resist) if I have to explain it just gets worse.
Avebury's great. Used to be with a "new age" type of girl. We'd go there regularly. I used to live near Sueno's stone and the Ley Line at Findhorn for a time too. Findhorn is pretty cool. They have a quirky eco-commune there. Nice people, crazy buildings, and the best sunset/sunrises I've ever seen. Loch Ness wasn't far either. I miss the Moray Firth.
My ideal vacation would be a cabin in the woods.
That's where I lived in Scotland for 8 months. I loved it. The only drawback was the Sheep ticks. I fucked that one up however, lol.
The pub in the middle is good :-)
The Red Lion! A day at Avebury isn't complete without scones at Avebury Manor either. The Waggon is a good pub near there too. I used to enjoy a day at Avebury.
Will check it out if it's not too crowded.
If it is go to the Waggon, great food, good beer, and less crowded because it's just a bit away from the circle. The prices aren't bad considering where it is either.
