The Last Remains

Nelson mentally adds ‘lounging trousers’ to the list of things that he will one day make illegal. It joins wheelie suitcases, pumpkin-flavoured coffee and people who tell him to have a nice day.

Ruth is Kate’s mother and, while she’s around, Kate will never be really afraid. That’s the power of the mother goddess.

They’re lounging trousers,’ says Ballard, when Nelson can’t help mentioning the fact. Nelson mentally adds ‘lounging trousers’ to the list of things that he will one day make illegal. It joins wheelie suitcases, pumpkin-flavoured coffee and people who tell him to have a nice day.

That's the thing. It's easy to talk about time and tide and the cycle of nature. It's more difficult when you're the one facing the long journey into the unknown. Cathbad has visited the portals of the underworld before and has been able to come back. This time it will be different.

Breathe in for four, out for eight. He remembers telling Ruth this when she began to suffer from panic attacks. But it's easier to advise other people.

Death closes all: but something ere the end Some work of noble note, may yet be done.

Why the hell can’t he stay at home and be a normal druid?

Simon seems delighted by his new sister. Almost insultingly so, in Ruth’s opinion.

We found a fingerprint on one of the antlers,’ says Jamie. ‘The miners probably put clay on their hands to help their grip. The clay preserved the print.

She used to come for the Folklore Fridays. It was a pet project of Dad’s. People would come to the café and talk about Norfolk myths and legends, read short stories and poems. Sometimes there’d be a singer. Dad loved all that stuff. Black Shuck, the Lantern Men, the Fairy Cow, the Southwood Pond.