Nonsense in the Chaos

When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough; When light is on the wild-wood stream, and wind is on the brow; When stride is long, and breath is deep, and keen the mountain-air, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is fair! Ent’s Marching Song - Tolkien This week I’m chatting to my dear friend Gordon Field, who talks to trees and travels through portals. His reality i...

Whilst on my holibobs I used my portable equipment to create a podcast for you this week as I walk my way around Guernsey and muse on the year I’ve had, especially thinking about my health. It has been a big and busy year. It’s been an ‘8’ year in numerology, which is the number of ‘life-force energy’ and therefore burnout was a likely side-effect of living through such a powerful year. I tried ha...

Molly O’Brien is an old friend of mine and an incredible and highly experienced midwife. Molly has more than 20 years of clinical practice experience and has attended over a thousand births. She’s also a hypnobirth and birth preparation teacher, an associate university lecturer, has created courses for midwives, campaigned for midwife led birth units and has been a passionate student and enabler o...

In this week’s episode I introduce you to the archetypal soup that is collective consciousness, or ‘The Dreaming’, within which we’re all infinite and connected to everyone and everything else. It is from this place that we’re all one. And in this place we can discover and own the atmosphere that we personally bring to the party, connecting into the archetype we’re here representing on earth.  We...

Heather describes the menstrual cycle as “Death to birth, dusk to dawn, waxing to waning. In every cycle there’s an opportunity to capture a gem, if you’re willing to pay attention and integrate. Every cycle is a trip – offering you a peek behind the veil. Your work is to integrate this into the everyday. Every menstrual cycle offers the same opportunity; it’s a trip around your psyche, a map for...

Thick fog is creeping through the garden surrounding my little cottage on the tiny island of Sark, in the channel islands, and in the distance I can hear the haunting sound of the foghorn, warning sailors and fishermen, with its desolate song, to avoid the rocks that stick up in shards and crags around this dragon filled, cavernous, rock. The clocks have gone back and the darkness creeps in. The w...

I met Rachael through us both creating work for Shangri-la at Glastonbury. I had the privilege of interviewing her on the Nomad Stage about her Wearable Waste installation. Rachael describes herself as an intervention artist, fashion educator and podcast host who focuses on sustainability, well being and finding alternatives to the status quo. She creates concepts and interventions that show susta...

Resting is a revolutionary act in a world where we’re expected to always keep busy and work our backsides off. This week’s podcast is a call to arms, or a call to nap, to reclaim the precious time that is our lives and take back our right to take leisure without guilt or restlessness. We need to retrain our muscles of boredom, idleness and ultimately, imagination. These are all being stolen from u...

Memma aka Sarah Day is a Bushcraft instructor, experimental archaeologist and ancient technologist. I’ve known Sarah for nearly twenty years, having met at Kentwell Hall Tudor Re-creation, a few years before her younger sister Rachel joined, who went on to meet my younger brother Nathan, and through their subsequent marriage, united our two households.  Sarah now runs her own business, ‘Prehistori...

#15 An Introduction to Geomancy WARNING: THIS ONE IS QUITE SAUCY The literal translation of Geomancy is, ‘Land Divination’, and the term covers an array of magickal practices that work with the land in a conscious and communicative way; Feng Shui, I Ching, and Dowsing to name but a few. In this rather manic and scattered podcast I try to share the story of how and why I became a ‘body dowser’ and...

Trigger warning: This episode does discuss rape In this episode I have the immense pleasure of talking to Niki, a kind and generous woman who I’ve only met three times, but has had such an impact on my life. I’ll be forever grateful to how open and trusting Niki has been, allowing me to delve into her innermost world and create art from the inspiration I gleaned there, celebrating the ripples that...

In this episode I break with form and introduce you to a very special person, my guardian angel, Anne Clarke. I met Anne through the ephemera she left behind in a house she lived and died in, which I then squatted some years later, discovering a time capsule to her existence, when I found all her belongings had been left behind in the space. Even the spices were still out in the kitchen from her l...

I’m chatting to one of my oldest friends this week, Joanne Tremarco, who’s a birth and death doula, a theatre maker and fellow fool. I met Joanne through fooling nearly twenty years ago. Our relationship was tempestuous to begin with, but we came out the other side with a sister-like friendship and deep understanding of one another.  Joanne is a sensitive soul who, like Denis, works a lot with ene...

This week I explore the turning of the season from summer into autumn, and how this is a time to mulch over what intentions you set for yourself this year, picking through what you’ve learnt and feeling gratitude for all that you’ve harvested from these experiences and insights.  I talk about how my intentions for this year were to explore the ‘Mythos of Love’ and where that adventure took me, alo...

In this week’s episode I get to chat with my dear friend Denis, as we discuss spirit, alternative dimensions, and rooms full of angels. Denis Whyte is a former award-winning documentary producer specialising in Hindu/Buddhist spiritual practices. He’s been an energy healer since 1980 and is involved in spiritually based community work in his neighbourhood in London.  I met Denis on the first pilgr...

This week I'm back in the studio on my own, contemplating how come I've ended up with three older white men in the first ten episodes of the podcast, but how that this is a reflection of current astro-events, as we dip one final time back into the patriarchal world of Capricorn, through the lens of Pluto, before we fully enter into the Aquarius age. We have much to learn from our elders...

Peter Currell Brown AKA ‘Mad Jack’ has been in my life for 35 years and I'd always assumed he would have a cracking life story to share and in this week's episode he does not disappoint. He mentioned in our chat that he's on Wikipedia and I highly recommend having a look at his page because there's much on there he didn't get around to talking about on this podcast. He doe...

Having left behind the madness of Boomtown Festival, I spent this week decompressing in the 16th Century, at Kentwell Hall Tudor Re-Creation,  nestled in amongst the idyllic village of Long Melford in Sudbury.   Populated by historians and talented experts, in this week's podcast I interview a myriad of fascinating friends; my oldest friend Samson, trumpet maker Lettys, glass blower Tom Shrub...

This week I chat to Declan Morgan, Sally Zaltash and Scarlett Lowin while we walk the Elen line from the Isle of Wight, up the Itchen River, to the sacred land temple of St Catherine's Hill and the bowl in which Boomtown is held.  I discuss druidry with Declan, Christianity with Sally, and reflect back over the festival with Scarlett. Can't believe that all just happened. What a creative...

Having walked the length and breadth of the UK, I share in this week’s episode the impact the experience of walking 2000 miles across the UK has had on my life and the plethora of things I’ve learnt from ever so slightly discovering how to ‘listen to the land’.  The books I mention in this week's podcast are; ‘The Sun and the Serpent’ by Paul Broadhurst & Hamish Miller ‘The Book of Trespa...

This week I’m over the moon to be welcoming the world famous @fooljonathankay to your airwaves. Jonathan is recognised as a leading performer in the ‘Theatre of Immediacy’ of Fooling, and is a highly respected practitioner and teacher of Fooling workshops. He is the founder of the largest street theatre festival in the UK, The Hat Fair, and is an Honorary Fellow of The University of Winchester. He...

In this week's episode of the Nonsense in the Chaos, a weekly podcast where I let the universe lead and take a 'Fool's leap' plunge into the unknown, I share about my ever deepening love of nature and the land, a relationship that's especially grown since embarking on a series of pilgrimages. I then pull a rune that leads me to a 'Runemation' on the archetype of...

This week's podcast is out and I'm super excited to be interviewing my darling friend @meganlouiseclifton who is Head of Narrative at Boomtown Fair, where she manages multiple theatre companies and other creative crews to deliver an interactive collaborative narrative to 55,000 people over 4 days.  Sitting between theatrical writer and game designer, Megan likes to create strange and bea...

Welcome to the Nonsense in the Chaos, a weekly podcast where I let the universe lead and take a 'Fool's leap' plunge into the unknown. In this first episode I'll be introducing you to the concepts behind this new podcast and sharing a little a bit about what has led me to this place, where I'm able to relish in the nonsense and the chaos of the universe (from someone who w...