Advent Day 5

Burley is a small village in Hampshire’s New Forest often featuring on my posts, with a reputation for witchcraft and demonology based on legends which are given in https://derrickjknight.com/2013/06/22/witchcraft/

It is a venue popular with our visitors, especially the younger ones, for what is to be found in its shops, especially ‘A Coven of Witches’ opened by Sybil Leek in the 1950s, shortly after the UK’s prohibition of witchcraft was lifted. Inside this shop I had a good long conversation with the owner who was hanging decorations. Last year we had bought a polished malachite stone for Malachi, so it was fascinating to learn that there are many fakes on line but that the provenance coming with those supplied here is guaranteed.

Here is my gallery from our visit at twilight this afternoon;

and here is Jackie’s.

This evening we enjoyed more chicken and vegetable stewp and crusty bread rolls, with which I drank Vina Albali Valdepeñas Gran Reserva 2017

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  9. So beautiful. I am listening to Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari on Audible. He has written a lot about witch hunting and how thousands were killed on suspicion of being witches. It is sad that violence and brutality is inherent in humans everywhere. Thank God there are countless good people.

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  11. Well, here’s a coincidence. For several years I sailed aboard a boat named Malachite: named for its green canvas. Out of curiosity, I went looking, and sure enough — there’s a broker’s video showing the boat online. It sold quickly when we put it up for sale, but it looks to me from various changes that yet another buyer came along. I had some pleasant days on that boat — it had a terrific galley.

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