Solstice Fires

On Spinal Tap, California poppies & the Seattle Sound

10pm / summer solstice

Over the top of our fire barrel, I can see the summit of Butser Hill.

I met the solstice dawn there this morning at 4.50am, my thighs a-burnin’ after completing a 12 mile hike along the South Downs Way to get there in time. Some local druids were there to perform a dawn ritual, praising the east wind and the hawks of dawn, etc. I l…