Lolita Salome Rabbit - Goodbye Beautiful Girl

Lolita Salome was purchased from a well known pet store in March 2008.  She was an agouti-brown, partial lop and had a good, even temperament.  Lolita was quite boisterous and loved running about and jumping around.  She appeared in a number of photos as shown here, once thinking she was Lady GaGa, as shown by the huge sunglasses!

Lolita died after a short illness on May 7, 2013 and will be sadly missed by her family.  Lolita received the usual send off and appropriate gifts were purchased for the graveyard Barons and Guardians to assist in her journey to the afterlife.

We played a number of songs, both to celebrate her life and to help her pass on to pastures new. Goodbye beautiful girl, we will always love you and wish you well in your new life in the spirit world.

Saltaire Rabbit Stone

This is a photograph of the Saltaire Rabbit Stone, found near Salt's Mill in Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire in 2011.

Salt's Mill is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was founded by Titus Salt in the 1850s on land once occupied by a corn mill.  Titus Salt built the village of Saltaire for his mill workers and named the streets mainly after his family members.  Titus Salt was once Mayor of Bradford and obtained a baronetcy.  In those days many industrialists received titles - Samuel Cunliffe Lister of nearby Lister's Mill of Manningham, became Lord Masham.

We feel the rabbit stone was quite a rare find.  Rabbits represent the Goddess Eostre, or Ostara, that the Christian Easter was named after.  Eostre is a goddess of spring and fertility.  When Britain converted from Paganism to Christianity, the dates, places and times of Pagan festivals were replaced with Christian celebrations at the same period.  Churches were often built on the site of Pagan altars to encourage people who had gone to these places to worship Pagan gods, to embrace the Christian beliefs instead.

Today with the New Age revival, religions like Druidism are officially recognised legally in their own right.

Grey Furry Fence Squirrel

This little squirrel seems so happy running around on the fence.  The squirrel is a cheeky little thing, unafraid of humans (up to a point) and really just going about his own business. He is not exactly Squirrel Nutkin, but he makes a good impression nonetheless!

According To Pete - The Jockey Lost His Seat

Supernatural Horsepower, is a folk song commemorating Synchronised, According To Pete, The Nile, Tears Of A Clown and all the other horses that have died as a result of racing.  As I understand it, racehorses are trained from an early age to run fast.  They are intelligent, sensitive creatures who, not only make money, but also give lots of prestige to their owners, who house them with a trainer.  But what happens when the training goes wrong?

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The Cat with Wings

The cat with wings was found by a housewife in an Oxford garden in 1933. The cat had black and white markings and was found wondering around the lady's garden. Later, the cat got in to her stables. She said (quote), 'I saw it move from the ground to a beam - a considerable distance, which I do not think it could have leaped - using its wings in a manner similar to that of a bird'.

A further quote from a reporter of the time was 'I carefully examined the cat tonight and there is no doubt about the wings. They grow just in front of its hindquarters'. Two officials arrived and took the cat away. The creature was placed on display at Oxford Zoo.

The photo shows the winged cat at Oxford Zoo in 1933. (The internet reference says 1934). There is a discrepancy as to the photo shown as to which winged cat it really is.

My reference book (undisclosed source, but a book published in the 1980s, which I own) says it is the 1933 winged cat, the internet reference says it is a winged cat from the 1899. At any rate winged cats abound apparently! Claws out and lots of cattiness!

The Totem Pole in a Dark Garden

The light catches the shadows. A picture taken in a rainstorm. Light in wet, long grass. Nature and Elementals as one. The secrets of ages whisper on the wind. The small Canadian Totem Pole stands close to the lantern. Ancient Gods still hold court in the grass in the Shipley, Yorkshire, Bohemian Grove night.

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The Church of the Green Ray Bunny

Browsing the internet I came upon this rather spectacular photograph, showing that the Green Ray can be found in many different places. It shows that the great power of the Universe can reach out and give new life and light, in this case, to a forgotten, derelict church, which the photo shows connecting once again, albeit perhaps in a more abstract way, to the great power of the planet Earth.

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