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	<description>The community web site for the London Grove of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.</description>
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		<title>London Tamesis Seedgroup</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2006/06/13/london-tamesis-seedgroup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2006/06/13/london-tamesis-seedgroup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hilde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are the London Tamesis Seedgroup of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. We meet each month in selected places around London, for meetings, ceremonies, workshops, and walks.
Even though we no longer actively use this web site, it will give you a good idea of the kinds of activities and ceremonies we&#8217;ve had in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plants of Power Walk &#8211; 31st May 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2009/06/02/plants-of-power-walk-31st-may-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2009/06/02/plants-of-power-walk-31st-may-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long ago, in another world, in another universe, a a call went out to those initiated into the path of Water Magic to gather together by the powerful spring that was the source of the Stream of the Hog and its Mill at an appointed time. So it was that in early summer on that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Imbolc Romance</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2009/02/10/an-imbolc-romance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2009/02/10/an-imbolc-romance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday 8th February we celebrated Imbolc at Box Hill and here is my poetic take on it &#8211; with much licence:
An Imbolc Romance 
In Modern Times there were three knights
Upright, handsome, sturdy wights
And they yclepèd were Sir Trui,
Sir Andrew and Sir Gregory
And into the woodland they did go
To seek out where the snowdrops grow
One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAMHAIN – 9-11-2008</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2009/02/10/samhain-%e2%80%93-9-11-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2009/02/10/samhain-%e2%80%93-9-11-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikefirecrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time past, in autumnal mists of yesteryear – though in fact it was only last year (!)  – we gathered at the appointed time and the appointed place – round about tea-time in Cilla’s front room (!)  – to celebrate the ending of the cycle of the year and beginning of the new according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9th December 2008 – Winter Solstice – Alban Arthuan</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/12/08/9th-december-2008-%e2%80%93-winter-solstice-%e2%80%93-alban-arthuan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/12/08/9th-december-2008-%e2%80%93-winter-solstice-%e2%80%93-alban-arthuan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hilde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liz wrote:
Thanks Cilla. You’ve said it much more economicaly than me but here is my piece.
We met at Sydenham Hill Station. There were Cilla, Kris and myself, and Jo and Mike. Trui did very well and was only about half an hour late, Jan, a long time solitary pagan joined us for the first time.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Solstice 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/12/08/winter-solstice-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/12/08/winter-solstice-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hilde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cilla wrote:
 
After realising it would be difficult to access Oxleas Wood thanks to British Rail’s ‘investment programme’ (or is that the Tube?), Jo and Mike suggested we return to Dulwich Wood for our Winter Solstice ritual. It was a beautiful day with the setting sun dancing through the bare branches, and turning even the wet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Equinox 08 &#8211; Cobham Park</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/11/11/autumn-equinox-08-cobham-park/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/11/11/autumn-equinox-08-cobham-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikefirecrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After some to-ing and fro-ing from the local station, five of us assembled at Cobham Park for our Autumn Ritual on Sunday 21st September.  Cobham Park had fallen into some dereliction in previous years until the Mausoleum featured in the first BBC Restoration series some years ago.  Although it did not win, it did prompt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Times Tamesis</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/10/03/two-times-tamesis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/10/03/two-times-tamesis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hilde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tamesis in July:
Andrew organised a creative woodworking day in his shed. As everyone knows, a man&#8217;s shed is his private space. So we were very privileged to be allowed in and share the peace of Andrew&#8217;s back garden.
The weather was mostly clement, and the tea &#8211; made by Andrew&#8217;s wife Juliette &#8211; flowed copiously. Greg, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midsummer Fire and Water &#8211; 22/6/08</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/06/28/midsummer-fire-and-water-22608/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/06/28/midsummer-fire-and-water-22608/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We returned to the Chiswick Eyot to celebrate the Summer Solstice.  Having last been there in February for an initial exploration, it was a shock (though of course it shouldn&#8217;t have been) to find it thickly grown with vegetation &#8211; a lot of ragwort which I fondly imagined from a distance to be St. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeding the Community Garden &#8211; 7th June 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/06/10/weeding-the-community-garden-7th-june-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/06/10/weeding-the-community-garden-7th-june-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Druid Matt McCabe has created a community garden and orchard in Haringey, North London.  Noticing that a corner of an allotment plot was going to waste near his house, Matt applied to his local council to take it over.  After cutting down a couple of sycamore trees, clearing the ground and getting rid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beltane 10th May 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/05/12/beltane-10th-may-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/05/12/beltane-10th-may-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five of us (Hilde, her friend Imogen, Greg, Becky and myself) arrived together at Box Hill to meet with the others (Donna, Heather and Andrew).  Our Beltane ceremony was to be held deep in the woods wither we were conducted by Andrew, our celebrant for the day, aka Lord of the Forest.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Equinox 29/3/08</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/24/spring-equinox-31308/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/24/spring-equinox-31308/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spring Equinox Ceremony was wet and cold which had the virtue of keeping curious members of the public at bay.
But the birds sang fit to burst in the budding trees and as the Mabon bought spring flowers into the circle, and the Lady offered us seeds to symbolise our hopes, and what we wished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Members&#8217; web sites</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/18/london-grove-members/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/18/london-grove-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hilde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journeys around the Wheel Hilde&#8217;s web site
Cilla Conway 
Wild Yew, Andrew Hargreaves&#8217; wonderful wood craft site.
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		<title>Druidic and general Pagan</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/18/druidic-and-general-pagan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/18/druidic-and-general-pagan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hilde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Druid Grove The home of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids
The Pagan Federation
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		<title>Getting wet together 12/4/08</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/18/getting-wet-together-12408/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/18/getting-wet-together-12408/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hilde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a wonderful party planned for this day. We were all going to get together in Nick&#8217; allotment and just socialise together. Sadly, when we planned this, we had last year&#8217;s April weather in mind. It was warm and sunny then, as opposed to cold and wet with hail showers. I was getting really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About this section</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/01/security-procedures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/04/01/security-procedures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hilde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This section of the site helps established members of London Tamesis Seedgroup to use this site. Visitors won&#8217;t find much that is of interest here.
If you have come to two or more events organised by the Seedgroup, and established members agree, you are a full member of the group. You are entitled to full access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Tamesis</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/02/21/lady-tamesis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/02/21/lady-tamesis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 10th February several of us went down to Chiswick to explore the eyot there (an eyot is an island sometimes washed over at high tide).  It was a magical day when we were able to make deeper connection with the river that gives our group its name.  A day of sun and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imbolc 27/1/08</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/01/27/imbolc-27108/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/01/27/imbolc-27108/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alas, most of us had to increase outr carbon footprint to get to Wanstead for the Imbolc ceremony run by Greg.  As usual, he&#8217;d prepared with care and attention, and conducted us through the intricacies of the ceremony with good humour and grace as candles guttered in the breeze and the lighted incense spilt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cae Mabon Poem</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/01/17/cae-mabon-poem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/01/17/cae-mabon-poem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw that Hilde asked me if I would consider putting up the poem I read at the poetry afternoon back in October so here it is.  It came out of my experiences at the Druid Herbcraft Course last May.  Though the word &#8220;magical&#8221; is somewhat overused in Druidic circles (I think) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make a Druid Cloak</title>
		<link>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/01/17/how-to-make-a-druid-cloak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theraven.org.uk/2008/01/17/how-to-make-a-druid-cloak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hilde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday morning, I got up way too early, or at least that&#8217;s what it felt like. I was in a bad, bad mood, and felt like  having a good old moan at whoever was going to be at Cilla&#8217;s workshop. I kind of started my moan when I got there. But I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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