Nonsense in the Chaos

LWe're in the half-way hump of our pilgrimage, where bodies are aching, kit is falling apart, and the going is getting tough. But just as we're being pushed to our limits, the landscape is changing again, and rural France is opening its doors to us in unexpected ways. From dystopian towns and boiling hot roads to fairyland encounters, generous strangers and moments of perfect Kairos timi...

It’s the Week of Michaelmas, and the pilgrimage has taken a distinctly autumnal turn. Rain, mud, long roads and some properly rough days have tested us — but they’ve also given us plenty of time to consider what it actually means to walk in relationship with Saint Michael. In this episode, we explore our own feelings about religion, the figure of Saint Michael, and the difference between following...

A chance meeting with an English couple, Bob and Sue, led us to discover a whole host of ancient dolmens scattered along our route — some sitting directly on the Michael/Apollo energy line. What followed was the most delightful Autumn Equinox, spent connecting with these extraordinary ancient places, the ancestors who built them, and our own ancestral lines. A week of walking, synchronicity, stone...

Week One of the Pilgrimage for Armageddon is underway and it turns out the first lesson was about nearly losing one of the most important members of the expedition… My pilgrim staff, Polly.  After nearly falling from the ramparts at Mont-Saint-Michel, Polly was rescued, reborn and transformed into Athena, one of the energy lines we're setting off walking, and of course the goddess of wise dec...

This week, my pilgrimage preparations take me to the magical Cae Mabon in Wales, where I spend a week held in ceremony, surrounded by an extraordinary bunch of humans — and a veritable plethora of inspiring, powerful women. Amongst the mountains, streams, stories, laughter and a fair bit of emotional alchemy, I discover there’s rather more to preparing for a pilgrimage than sorting out boots and b...

Step back through the mists of time and into the glorious, smoky, slightly unhinged world of Kentwell Hall Tudor Re-Creation … This week, the podcast is less “peaceful historical immersion” and more woodsmoke, clucking chickens, creaking carts, peacocks screaming in the distance and the unmistakable sound of 1553’s most outrageous scandal … THE GREAT CART CLAMPING SCANDAL OF 1553 Who clamped the c...

Sorry for being radio silent for the last couple of weeks! 🙈 I was ridiculously busy, having far too much fun, and frankly needed a little break from the everyday. And… apologies in advance that this week’s episode is a little sweary. 😂 But it’s bloody brilliant to be back! This week I’m sharing some of the power and magic we wove at Boomtown this year — working with land magic, creativity and a...

TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️  15min in talks about child abuse This week, a surprise visit from an old friend left me asking a much bigger question. What is it about people who think money, status and name-dropping make them more important than everyone else? Watching one person's behaviour manage to irritate not just me but seemingly half of Sark became the perfect reminder that it's time to stop...

This week's podcast began in a hammock, in our garden overlooking Port du Moulin on Sark, as the sun dipped into golden hour. Our garden sits on an energy line… a place that amplifies your connection with the Earth. So I decided to get quiet. To listen. I pulled a few tarot cards and asked a simple question. ‘What do you want to say to me?’ The answer that came through wasn't what I expe...

The battle for the future won't just be fought through technology, politics or economics. It will be fought through story. As artificial intelligence, data centres and digital infrastructure become the backbone of modern civilisation, new narratives are already emerging. Those who defend rivers, forests and the living Earth risk being recast as obstacles to progress... even as extremists. Rec...

What happens when we choose to walk not simply to get somewhere, but to be changed by the journey itself? This week I'm joined by Guy Hayward, co-founder and Director of the British Pilgrimage Trust and co-author of Britain's Pilgrim Places . Since 2014, Guy has been quietly helping revive pilgrimage across Britain through the simple but profound invitation to 'bring your own belief...

In this week's episode of Nonsense in the Chaos, I explore the tension between celebrating our unique gifts and becoming consumed by the modern obsession with personal branding, fame and being seen. Drawing on indigenous culture, psychology and everyday life, I ask whether we've confused individuality with individualism... and what we've lost along the way. From the rise of celebrit...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos, I’m sitting down with my adventure buddy, Edd Stone. We spend a lot of our working lives together, whether that’s as Astro Guides at the Observatory peering out into the vastness of space, or with Adventure Sark, taking people scrambling over rocks, out onto the sea in kayaks, dangling off cliffs coasteering, or trying their hand at archery and shooting. Edd is...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos, I recorded sat back up in my favourite tree, Satine... or what remains of her. She took the full force of this winter's storms and though she's still alive, just, she stands now in a different form.  Sitting beneath her in the heat, I found myself reflecting on the strange threshold we seem to be standing in as a species. The air feels different. The s...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , I’m gathering the roots. The Witchfool Are You? journey began on Monday and already something fascinating is unfolding. Sometimes we think we’re leading the ritual, holding the space or guiding the path, but then life quietly turns and reveals that something is leading us too. In this episode I’m reflecting on the threads, synchronicities and whispers that are...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , I climbed a tree. After finding myself peopled out and carrying the lingering sadness that can follow when alcohol leaves our closest relationships feeling a little bruised and out of tune, I spent the day perched among the branches, seeking refuge in the way I always have. From childhood memories of running away into nature and escaping the pressures of school...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , we're venturing into the abyss. Not the dramatic, mythic kind filled with monsters and ancient gods... but the very real places within ourselves we'd rather avoid. For me, the demon waiting in the dark is money. The stories I carry about worth, security, success and scarcity have a habit of resurfacing whenever I think I've finally made peace wit...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos, I’m joined by the wonderful AJ... a curious soul walking the delicate line between care, academia, activism and joy. Working within the NHS as a mental health nurse supporting families in a deeply pressured system, AJ brings both compassion and honesty to the conversation. Currently completing the first two years of her doctorate, with her thesis beginning in Se...

Turns out the HRT was working… because when it ran out unexpectedly last Friday, the wheels fully came off the train. Add getting ill on top, and this week’s podcast has arrived slightly later than usual. In the new episode of Nonsense in the Chaos I’m talking about grounding and recalibrating during the busy headiness of Gemini Season, tending the home fires, avoiding burnout, and how to begin ag...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos, I’m joined by Ben the Shaman, who opened this year’s La Beltane Festival in the middle of a thunderstorm. As torrential rain lashed the valley and festival-goers huddled beneath the gazebo, Ben stepped directly into the storm to bless the land, calling to Pachamama, spirit, the heavens and the directions. Slowly the rain softened, the skies cleared, and the fest...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , I’m talking about how strong, grounded, and genuinely supported I feel after this year’s La Beltane Festival here on Sark. The day began with absolute chaos... an unexpected torrential downpour just as everything was starting. For a moment, it felt like the whole thing might unravel. But the crew held steady, everyone pulled together, and we somehow ran a very...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos , I’m joined by my best friend, Saffron Issac… a woman who has walked alongside me through more lifetimes than one. We met as teenagers in a Tudor re-creation and have been in each other’s lives ever since, from free parties and muddy rave fields, to sharing a home at the turn of the millennium in Brighton, to slowly, fiercely carving out our own lives and callin...

This week I’m sitting in the strange and beautiful in-between of arrival. A new home, new rhythms, new ways of inhabiting both space and self. There’s something about learning how to live in a place that mirrors learning how to live in a new phase of life… and right now, both are shifting at once. As I move deeper into the perimenopausal threshold, I can feel the stirrings of what I’m calling the...

This week I take a deep dive into the wild adventure that is menopause with my guest Elaine Le Feuvre. Elaine is a passionate advocate for the Red School, which teaches women to work with their menstrual cycles, and for the Wisewoman’s Journey through menopause, seeing it as a deeply spiritual rite of passage. Known across the Channel Islands for her work as an aromatherapist, Elaine has led a ric...

This week’s episode arrives straight from the midst of chaos… boxes everywhere, life in flux, and La Beltane Festival fast approaching. With capacity stretched and no guest in place, this becomes a raw solo transmission... an honest navigation of what it means to keep going when everything feels in motion. And, as ever, the universe answers. The rune that emerges lands with uncanny precision, offe...