Dole Diddle Druid Dobney in Dock

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3509403/Dole-diddle-druid-Terry-Dobney-in-dock.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1373352/Respected-Archdruid-accused-wrongly-claiming-40-000-benefits.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374515/Keeper-coins-Archdruid-cleared-40-000-benefit-fraud-despite-having-30-000-savings.html

Keeper of the Coins

Pete, I see you have posted on the Megalithic Portal. Like me, you get around a bit - I'm on there as well !

Hi,
yup I wonder in and out of other forums now & and then when I'm not out in the fields or have my head stuck into a stack of antiquarian material...
Pete

Oh dear.....I see that Terry the Druid has been a naughty boy. Nice to see he's trying the old politician's methodology of avoiding entrapment by reckoning he was doing it for mummy. Tut-tut...

Mebbe he could enroll as the local MP. He seems to have the credentials for it! Keep us up to date on what happens Pete.

atb - Paul

Or maybe he is/used to be an undercover Catholic Priest.

Terry was found not guilty and all charges were dismissed. Just a case of malicious accusation, possibly by bigots who seek to denigrate paganism.(or even druidry) There's a lot of it about.

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Oh the road to En-Dor is the oldest road
And the craziest road of all!
Straight it runs to the Witch’s abode,
As it did in the days of Saul,
And nothing is changed of the sorrow in store
For such as go down on the road to En-Dor !

RUDYARD KIPLING

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I thought that was a metaphor for the Alehouse door!

'fraid not ...

"Behold there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor." I Samuel, xxviii. 7.

The road to En-dor is easy to tread
For Mother or yearning Wife.
There, it is sure, we shall meet our Dead
As they were even in life.
Earth has not dreamed of the blessing in store
For desolate hearts on the road to En-dor.

Whispers shall comfort us out of the dark--
Hands--ah God!--that we knew!
Visions .and voices --look and hark!--
Shall prove that the tale is true,
An that those who have passed to the further shore
May' be hailed--at a price--on the road to En-dor.

But they are so deep in their new eclipse
Nothing they say can reach,
Unless it be uttered by alien lips
And I framed in a stranger's speech.
The son must send word to the mother that bore,
'Through an hireling's mouth. 'Tis the rule of En-dor.

And not for nothing these gifts are shown
By such as delight our dead.
They must twitch and stiffen and slaver and groan
Ere the eyes are set in the head,
And the voice from the belly begins. Therefore,
We pay them a wage where they ply at En-dor.

Even so, we have need of faith
And patience to follow the clue.
Often, at first, what the dear one saith
Is babble, or jest, or untrue.
(Lying spirits perplex us sore
Till our loves--and their lives--are well-known at
En-dor). . . .

Oh the road to En-dor is the oldest road
And the craziest road of all!
Straight it runs to the Witch's abode,
As it did in the days of Saul,
And nothing has changed of the sorrow in store
For such as go down on the road to En-dor!

Are you taking up poetry John, these all seem rather good. So we will call you John the Bard from now on

The Barred! Dy'mean?
Might apply at some doors.

Sunbright57 wrote:Are you taking up poetry John, these all seem rather good. So we will call you John the Bard from now on

Those are Kipling's words Ray, sadly not mine

It is good, right and just that such tomfoolary as modern druidry has been placed in this section of the TNA Forum

Oh yes, Rudyard Kipling - Kim and all that. He had some connection with Rudyard Lake down Stoke on Trent way, I believe. Something to do with that name. An interesting character.

Have you been barred from your locals John !!!

I am barred from some drinking houses in England for expressing free thought and firmly expect to be barred from many more ... we live in age that has little toleration of Liberty ...

john