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Comment on Sid Rawle: 1945 – 2010 by ina

ina — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:59:51 +0000

Ah Sid A Cid. Yes lovely to see him appreciated up here. From the london Tribe of the Sacred Mushroom and the Diggers, Henge to Deeply, Tally to Dean. I last met him at the forest of Dean festival – He’d asked me and brother Bev (http://www.castlepook.org/_y/Bardic/Bardic.html) to help count the cash which felt like a great recognition considering the size of the event – I got back to my tent to find my primus had been liberated.
Always a gentleman at least to this person – i was so glad at the kindly nature of his passing which i hear was almost instant.
Via his committment to the light footed earth based path and the structures that evolved from that many other free spirits moved thru wobbly periods in greater safety.
Ya Salaam Sid Rawles.

Comment on Arrghhhh… by Valerie

Valerie — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:23:06 +0000

Just passing through but may I make a suggestion… use salt water to rinse your mouth, especially sea salt water. you can find sea salt at the health food store. Salt water kills everything. If you can get to a dentist you should find out if a tooth is loose and needs to be pulled and deal with it. You may be losing a tooth to bone loss/old age. I’ve had a little experience with this and I have pretty strong teeth. Also mollycoddle your teeth a bit. No nuts, gum, caramel or crunchy stuff, and get a soft toothbrush. Hope this doesn’t arrive too late. Good luck!

From another Val…

Comment on Arrghhhh… by Heather Cameron

Heather Cameron — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:04:21 +0000

Heart went out to you. Suffering same of late.
Only just found out that raw cashews, mangos, and rose geranium essential oil have Anacardic Acid in them which is lethal to the Gram Bacteria which causes gum infections and tooth abscess. Also black tea bags as poultices really help draw out the infection.

Previously found Propolis to be very good as a mouth wash, if not allergic to bees. Colloidal silver another.
Best to you…

Comment on A Break in the Madness… by maureen marjoram

maureen marjoram — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:41:58 +0000

I would like to order 4 soft backed Elfin Diaries with delivery before Xmas if possible or just after Xmas. Yours sincerely Maureen Marjoram.

Comment on Sid Rawle: 1945 – 2010 by Dustie

Dustie — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:03:19 +0000

Time passes, journeys are made, people come and go, the seasons change and finally the clock chimes, today I found Sid again, but I am so sad because we never met again; (I Googled “Sid tee-pee” and the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia page shocked me! then I had to cry and now i have found this page, but will read it all later). Last year in August I finally moved out of the caravan on the hill and moved here to my first ever house. From many many years of travels that have taken me around the world I have somehow ended up with alot of boxes! One box that had been packed away from the year when we left “evicted” from our farm had a wooden bamboo flute in it that Sid had made for me. He had lived in a teepee with Josh by the stream at the bottom of our hill in Deeply Vale (where I was born). It was my “railway children” experience, only with tee-pee’s. I would love running down the hill to the tee-pee . Watching Sid move the flaps when too much smoke made my eyes water. I told my young daughter all about the mystical merlin type man who had become our (my dog Bruno) friend at the DeeplyVale festivals. He tried to grow vegetables but our goats were always hungry! A few more tee-pees arrived and so did the snow. I remember Josh and I going to “that awful snotty” school. All watching Roots on t.v every Sunday. It was a wonderful childhood, very free spirited and made even more special for spending some of it with Sid (is this where I got my hippiness from)
…. i will plant a tree for you……. x dustie x

Comment on Working…. by Shirley Medcalf

Shirley Medcalf — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:19:54 +0000

I am so sorry to hear that Caroline has passed away. May she be blessed on the other side. I have been purchasing the diaries , T-shirts & incense for quite a few years now & hope to be able to continue.

Good luck on your journey with the diary

Brightest Blessings

Celtic-Hawk xx

Comment on Sid Rawle: 1945 – 2010 by a stonechild

a stonechild — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:47:45 +0000

The child is now our big brother my eldest son shares his same name.

Comment on Sid Rawle: 1945 – 2010 by stephen bassindale

stephen bassindale — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:21:18 +0000

I first met Sid at the end of 1970 late November early December time on Dornish Island where I was to stay for six months. Sid was organising the commune there, it was a motley crew including myself. We lived in two old army tents that leaked, one for sleeping and the other for communal living. The weather was hard gale force 8 was not uncommon there was 2 cyclones while I was there. Sid designed a more permanent structure based on Tepees’ but the original Tepee design would not cope with the weather. The structure lasted until the last person left. In that time I got to know Sid as well as most people did. He kept a lot back about himself I doubt many people ever got that close to him. Sid was there until just before Xmas then went back to London to get funds he returned only for a few days in March but never went back according to those who stayed on. Sid was always vague about his time on Dornish partly to do with Sid’s own myth making. What actually happened on Dornish as not yet been written and lost in memory of time. Later I met up with Sid again and stayed with him in the Camden squats. We did have a friendship due to the Dornish link and so I have always had time and respect for him. That period thou were a trying time for Sid and many others including myself. The Hippie scene was dying lots of squabbling, big egos and money was diluting what had been a cool scene Sid trying to cut through all that. I saw both sides of Sids character one of a gentle and kind and the other dark side usually with the opposite sex, he was never violent. One episode I remember was to do with a child, he called me over and said look at this, the child no more a year hold had pop marks all over the body from skin popping with heroin. Sid told that the child’s mother was on her way to India and gave it to another women who were on the way back to look after it until she returns. The women she gave it to was an addict and was skin popping the child Sid took over and looked after child and most probably brought up the child as his I moved away after that and had little contact with Sid except a few phone calls in the mid and late seventies. I bumped in to him one more time on a criminal justice demonstration it was brief, he was being filmed after a quick talk about Dornish I was gone. Sid was the genuine article, he distrusted and hated authority something both of us shared he also mistrusted organisations did not trust their intensions. Something’s I have read in other obituaries on Sid, Sid went to Dornish in 1970 after the end of the Isle of Wight festival not 1971. Sid formed the Digger Action moventment I was honouree member at that time he had produce a pamphlet or pamphlets before I had met him. The one person he spoke of fondly was Bill Dwyer. Although Sid did built a myth around him he was genuine in his belief of the land, Dornish was not the right place to do what he wanted it was too harsh. I did plan to visit him in the Forest of Dean a few times I wished I had now.

Comment on Sid Rawle: 1945 – 2010 by a stonechild

a stonechild — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:56:46 +0000

am I included in the 7, Tris and being the beautiful red heads? It’s very likely that Dad now find’s himself with everlasting cup of tea . . But i believe he’s got used to drinking it without excess sugar . . Oh!. . Wanted to add. . Dad has more than 7 children . . He adopted many in particular situations. . For him it seemed there was no difference between us and who had been adopted. .

Comment on Sid Rawle: 1945 – 2010 by Val

Val — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:51:51 +0000

Hi Sid’s Sister – good to hear from his family. I wish now I’d made more effort to get in touch with him during the last few years. I too miss him – and his mugs of “British Rail tea”!
I never really believed that story he told me about his parentage – perhaps at that time Sid felt he needed to weave some romance about himself. If so, it wasn’t necessary. He was brave, honourable and idealistic and needed no fairy tales around him.