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And so the story goes, to where? No one knows. But it involves a Volkswagen T2 Crossover Bay Bus called Billie Bud (known to most people as ‘WOW, a camper van’); a Pentax LX SLR camera loaded with black and white film; cooking vegetarian food on a basic set up of Cobb cooker, a couple of gas rings and an open fire; reading books; listening to music and the ruminations from a retired Staff Nurse. Well......got to fill the hours outside of being a pensioner somehow.

Late last night a Harvest Moon was shining brightly. It was a great opportunity to recharge the Hermiker Diamond by allowing the Moon’s ethereal light to be soaked up by this amazing crystal.

Because I wanted to add only keyboard extras onto the YEAR ONE song below, and whilst using headphones to record new simple melodies, no noise came from The Den other than the tip tap tapping on the AKAI MIDI keyboard. It was getting on for 01.00 after all. Angie was sleeping and had a very busy stock take ahead in her shop. These yearly stock takes take a fair few days and Sunday, when the shop is closed, pulls all the final counting and figures to a conclusion.

After the ‘silent’ additions, it was a case of silencing every single track recorded and switching each track, one by one, back into the headphones in order to balance instrumental and vocal volume levels. It can take quite a while back and forth. But there comes a moment when you just have to say to yourself ‘Stop! It’s fine now’.

Keyboard choices to add were Fairy Bells and Modern Mystic Bowl. I wanted an ethereal, but bright little Will-o’-the-Wisp type vibe.

Here below is the newer Year One. Also, for my blogging friend Destiny, an amazing poet, is a photograph of the Hermiker as requested.

UPDATE:

When Destiny saw the Hermiker crystal photographs and the Harvest Moon photograph below, she wrote me a poem.

#midnight solace#

clouded skies exhale
into the hush of midnight
a moonlit solace…

Yup! She is an amazing poet. Thank you Destiny. 🙏🏽