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~Nightshade

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About Me

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My name is Julie, but I am also known as Nightshade. I am a scatty, harrassed psychic solitary Witch! Single parent, 5' 7" tall. (I live and work full time as a receptionist/secretary in a very small town on the Somerset/Dorset borders.I have one teenagey daughter, gorgeous girl but very demanding, and I have a boyfriend who is an absolute darling.Have a lifelong love affair with Frodo Baggins, especially Elijah Wood's Frodo! The personification of male beauty itself.Needless to say I am an enormous Lord of the Rings fan - the book since the 1970s and the movies just blew me away.I have always been a Pagan through and through, although it didn't click that this was the case until a few years ago - I only know that I had always felt different, the "odd one out", and I had always been "searching" for I knew not what. It was so nice to actually realise what I was and feel that I had finally "come home".
And oh, yes, you may have noticed - I adore a certain Mr James Patrick Page of Led Zeppelin fame ... have thought him delicious since the early 70s. He may be getting on a bit now, well so am I! But he is still gorgeous, even after all the excesses he put himself through. I also was born in the same little Middlesex town as he. Sorry,being fangirly!

My Interests

Spirituality, witchcraft, Tarot, Hinduism, Buddhism, crystals, meditation, Reiki (I am a Reiki II), the Moon etc etc, plus all the "regular" things like wildlife, nature and birds and animals (particularly cats - I simply adore them) driving, gardening, cooking (a passion), good wine and the local cider, maps, the sea, music etc etc etc.I have a passion for Victorian art - in particular the Pre-Raphaelite artists, my favourite being John Waterhouse. Oh, such beauty!I have to admit I have absolutely no interest in any sport. Apart from driving, that is, if you class that under sport. I love driving. I have a secret yearning to try rally driving! But generally I am musical/arty rather than sporty!CURRENT MOON moon phase info

I'd like to meet:

Spiritual/pagan/witchy people, Fellow LOTR/Frolijah lovers, music lovers, old friends. All the dear friends I have on the net but not yet met in person!Jimmy Page, Brian May, Paul Rodgers, Robin Gibb, Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd.Thanks to Colin Ballard for the beautiful photos of Broadstairs. Visit his site here

Music:

I have always been a total music whore and love most types of music - rock, pop, classical, celtic, folk, Pagan. I love Damh the Bard and Loreena McKennitt. If I had to choose one music style it would have to be rock - Led Zeppelin and Queen are my very, very favourite bands. Some of my favourite bands through the years have been, and still are: led zeppelin, free, queen, the beatles, bee gees, heart, creedence clearwater revival, ELO, steve hillage, dire straits, deep purple, black sabbath, pink floyd, UFO, rush, jethro tull, etc etc. There are more, more more and I shall be adding to this list when my poor old memory drags names up, or when I browse through my dear old vast, vinyl collection! Simply mad about the "beginning" (to me) of modern English music - ie the Yardbirds and what followed (JPP and Led Zep of course, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton) and other early/mid sixties music. I "discovered" pop/rock through the Beatles at first - "All My Loving" being the first single (well, EP actually, if anyone remembers them) I owned, in 1964. (I was eight!) From then on there was no stopping me - music was almost everything. I feel quite privileged to have grown up amongst the real "roots" of the West London beginnings of the Yardbirds and others - so much flowered from the Twickenham/Richmond/Hounslow area.

Movies:

LORD OF THE RINGS, The Full Monty, Practical Magic, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jumanji

Jimmy Page on Julie Felix show



Delightful clip of Jimmy playing on the Julie Felix show, 1970. What a genius, and so pretty! Yummmmmmy.

Television:

Torchwood, Dr Who, Life on Mars, Inspector Morse, etc. I watch very little television.

Books:

Many and varied, favourite book of all time - LORD OF THE RINGS by J R R Tolkien

Heroes:

Isis, Maat, Hecate, Shakti, Dr Usui. JIMMY PAGE, Brian May, Paul Rodgers, Freddie Mercury, Robin Gibb, Frodo Baggins, Rupert Bear

My Blog

Friday afternoon

Yet again I must apologise for not replying to my friends' sweet comments.  I just don't seem to have time lately to do many notes or comments.  But wishing everyone a fab weekend! I have ha...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:16:00 PST

Check out this video: Led Zeppelin- The Rain Song

Oh, so beautiful! A pressie for the weekend.Love and hugs to all my Myspace friends. XXXXXLed Zeppelin- The Rain Song Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:04:00 PST

Check out this video: CCR - Looking Out My Backdoor

Ah, I love Creedence! I was incredibly into them in my immediately pre-Zeppelin/underground days (aged 14-ish). I think I must have devoted the whole of 1970 to them! LOL.This video is too cute!CCR...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:57:00 PST

Check out this video: The Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul

My favourite Yardies song - and doesn't Jimmy look divine??? JPP rules!Hope everyone is having a good week! Love and hugs to all, ~Nightshade xxxxxxxxxxThe Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul ...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:46:00 PST

How old were u when you first ...? (fun quiz)

Thanks to Theia for this quiz.  I used to do a lot of these on LiveJournal, but haven't done any recently - some are too long, complicated, and repetitive!  I like this one though - simple a...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:54:00 PST

HAPPY OSTARA!!

Wishing all my Pagan friends a very Blessed Ostara. Blessed Be! ~Nightshade ...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:45:00 PST

A good weekend to all ...

Just wanted to wish everyone a great weekend. I am going up to G's near Banbury tonight so probably will be offline for most of the weekend, until Sunday night anyway. Brightest blessings, love and hu...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:14:00 PST

Added some more photos, and what we did on Saturday

Sitting up at this pc far, far too late, considering I have to be up for work at 7.15 and it's now 1.40 am!!!! Just posted a few more photos - which also appear in the slideshow.  One is of G an...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:46:00 PST

Fun Pagan Quiz

  You scored as Celtic Pantheonic Pagan. Your answers leaned very close to that of the Celtic Pantheon.  Very popular now among pagans, the Celtic Gods seem to draw those who are sensit...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:27:00 PST

Raise the mead-cup!

I would like to wish a very HAPPY YULE to all my Pagan friends, and everyone else!!! ~hugglesnuggles~...
Posted by ~Nightshade on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:01:00 PST