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Happy Samhain
Oct. 31st, 2005 11:14 amHave a good one.
I am updating this in a moment of calm - we have had a very hectic weekend, with visits to parents and a fair at the Town Hall. I did a well-received talk on the history of the Gothic in Britain on Saturday night and did Ogham readings all yesterday at the fair while T was in the shop. I had some very pleasant clients. Everyone is in town for Samhain, spending like there's no tomorrow, apart from a group of 400-strong Catholic youth. It's their annual outing to reclaim Glastonbury for Christ, though what our local (rather large) existing congregation thinks about this, I've no idea. The police were much in evidence so there wasn't the level of property damage that some people experienced last year, but some of T's customers were harrassed.
Glastonbury being Glastonbury, everyone is wonderfully tolerant and forebearing (apart from the guy who runs the fair, who last year got tired of the vocal demonstration outside, went out, seized a demonstrator by the collar and shouted 'Will you please just FUCK OFF?!' at the top of his voice. Surprised by unexpected New Age resistance, they did).
I believe in being as pleasant as possible. It annoys people so much.
I didn't see any of the Catholics. I don't know why. Maybe they hid. T got a couple in the shop who apparently nearly said something, then registered the fact that they were about to confront a 6 ft 2 gent standing in front of a cabinet filled with large knives. Oddly, nothing was said. And there was a very weird encounter with a man who asked to be sold something to deal with a binding spell that had allegedly been placed on him. T told him that we couldn't sell him anything much and he'd have to deal with it himself, at which point he went over the road to the other witchcraft shop and made the same request. One of the other customers turned to T and said 'I'm a sound engineer. I don't know if you noticed, but I think that guy was miked.' Bizarre. Was he hoping to cop us under the Trades Descriptions Act? And if so, how would he prove it?
I am updating this in a moment of calm - we have had a very hectic weekend, with visits to parents and a fair at the Town Hall. I did a well-received talk on the history of the Gothic in Britain on Saturday night and did Ogham readings all yesterday at the fair while T was in the shop. I had some very pleasant clients. Everyone is in town for Samhain, spending like there's no tomorrow, apart from a group of 400-strong Catholic youth. It's their annual outing to reclaim Glastonbury for Christ, though what our local (rather large) existing congregation thinks about this, I've no idea. The police were much in evidence so there wasn't the level of property damage that some people experienced last year, but some of T's customers were harrassed.
Glastonbury being Glastonbury, everyone is wonderfully tolerant and forebearing (apart from the guy who runs the fair, who last year got tired of the vocal demonstration outside, went out, seized a demonstrator by the collar and shouted 'Will you please just FUCK OFF?!' at the top of his voice. Surprised by unexpected New Age resistance, they did).
I believe in being as pleasant as possible. It annoys people so much.
I didn't see any of the Catholics. I don't know why. Maybe they hid. T got a couple in the shop who apparently nearly said something, then registered the fact that they were about to confront a 6 ft 2 gent standing in front of a cabinet filled with large knives. Oddly, nothing was said. And there was a very weird encounter with a man who asked to be sold something to deal with a binding spell that had allegedly been placed on him. T told him that we couldn't sell him anything much and he'd have to deal with it himself, at which point he went over the road to the other witchcraft shop and made the same request. One of the other customers turned to T and said 'I'm a sound engineer. I don't know if you noticed, but I think that guy was miked.' Bizarre. Was he hoping to cop us under the Trades Descriptions Act? And if so, how would he prove it?
