The Make-Do Witch

Living a paganish life with not much time and plenty of children.

I’m a birth doula, mum, wife, book hoarder and lover of religions and sacred spaces practicing my own magic in my own make-do style.

Finding the time, finding the energy, finding the inspiration and the presence of mind to connect with Other Things when you have three home educated young children is a juggling act. So many others must be in the same boat and yet the books and blogs seem very often to be for the people with lots of time and plenty of peace. Maybe other people with a life like mine will find something for them here.

• Spells and Rituals – Are You Set to Transmit or Receive?10th Apr 2021
  When I was a teenager a friend’s Dad commented (of someone else….) “She’s always set to transmit instead of receive…” The radio analogy stuck with me and recently got me thinking a lot about what we are meant to be getting out of spells and rituals. So many how-tos and instructions focus very heavily on
• Magic of the Sea and Shore27th Jan 2021
  “Between the worlds, at the threshold of the tides, crossing the space between the human race and the otherworldly watery realms, swim the mermaids” Cheryl Strafton – Between the Realms (Cornish Myth and Magic) Maybe the most immediate, palpable and accessible liminal space there is, the coast and our shores and beaches are teeming with
• Waking my Drum8th Jan 2021
  Just before Christmas I put down a deposit with Rachael Crow for a hair on cow hide drum. I’ve been running outdoor singing sessions up at a particular bronze age site on the moors nearby recently and there is something about singing to the beat of a really good drum that is like nothing else,
• Why I Hate New Year and Why I’m Trying “First-Footing”31st Dec 2020
  “The first thing through the door would have a determining effect on what fortunes the home and family had in the coming seasons….”First Footing”, mostly now associated with Scottish lands and folk, [was] once widespread throughout the British Isles” Nigel G. Pearson – Walking the Tides I detest New Year. I haven’t stayed up for