Dr. Rebecca Beattie

23 March 2016 I have a bit of a soft spot for forgotten women. Previously, this has expressed itself as fascinations with Hatshepsut,...

15 March 2016 One of the questions I am frequently asked about Nature Mystics, is ‘how did you select which writers to include? Because...

15 November 2015 I had an important insight into the mind of Mary Webb this weekend, which is really important to the work I am doing at...

18 July 2015 I learned something terribly important in the last few weeks, and it is really important to record it for my own reference...

13th September 2014 Good writing is not something that requires the reader to be completely passive; it is a dialogue, in which the...

Posted @ 11:42:21 on 13 July 2013 Yesterday was a scorcher! While hordes of people were heading for Hampstead Heath, I snuck away down a...

Posted @ 11:32:12 on 04 June 2012 It is never a good sign when I start a new post thinking "My goodness, is it really that long since I...

Posted @ 11:00:24 on 21 August 2011 Next saturday is holiday time - woohoo! It can't come soon enough, as my energy tanks were way beyond...

Posted @ 17:03:40 on 06 April 2008 The nice thing about being at home is that you can get out into the wilds and just walk. There is...

From April 27th 2018 (Serves twenty Witchlets! These quantities can be reduced) Dandelions have a long history of use in herbal medicine,...