Bluebells in Reigate I’m very lucky to live near an ancient woodlands that is carpeted with bluebells right now. I’ve been able to go there almost everyday for the last two weeks to see which elementals are there, and soak up the blue for myself. The woods are so full of elementals that they appear to overlap each other as they move through the flowers, from the tiny bluebell fairies to the giants. Where our biggest land mammal is an elephant, dropping down to horse-sized ani

By Candace. Yesterday I went to Merlin’s Cave under Tintagel in Cornwall. As soon as stepping inside the cave one knows it feels different, and this time I worked out what the difference is. This cave is only accessible when the tide is out, and when the tide returns it fills with water. Walk inside at low tide and you enter a space that is both water and air. Around you are the water elementals, present in a space that is theirs 12 hours a day, and anywhere that is full of e

My daughter and I were sitting under a tree in my garden today that has some bluebells blooming around the base. There was a very large elemental standing there, one of the ones that looks a bit like an elephant. I got to talking to it about my garden and why it was visiting here. He said that my garden looked and felt different because we loved it, took care of it, and interacted with the garden itself. We respected it for what it is. Obviously ours is not the only garden th

Winkworth Arboretum After writing the last article about bluebells I went back into the woods everyday in the nice weather to see what was happening, and the activity kept changing.  My main question was “why was there an elemental there as a tourist?” There had to be a reason. For us, to enjoy the outdoors and “fairyland” takes us out of our houses and re-acquaints us with the beauty of the natural world. What does an elemental get out of it? The various woods I visited last

Bluebells in spring sunshine Bluebells In my book The Downfall of Atlantis I wrote about the elementals and the spell they cast to be hidden from humans, and how one day it will be up to humanity to reverse this spell. As that veil lifts we will go back to the way it was before the spell was cast. Following the battle on Glastonbury Tor and the death of Arthur the world looked simplified and watered down; I’m not sure if I was able to get that across in writing. Watching youn