Jonathan Shayfer
Shayfer's Fire - 'The Salt Path'
I'm a fairly avid reader. If I could see to read by an open camp blaze, that'd be a very fine thing but the ambience of the fire is not...
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Jonathan Shayfer
Shayfer's Fire
The kind of second-hand stories, life anecdotes and off-the-cuff views to be recounted by the glowing flames of a camp fire with your favourite tipple and a spud baked in the embers.
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Shayfer's Fire - Gathering of Nations
Pow wow is many things to many people. It is mostly a coming together, a celebration of life and the ancestors who have walked these...
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Shayfer's Fire - Peregrine
So.....I was camping in Dean Forest and was hiking in the area. I came to Symonds Yat with its high vantage point over the river Wye and...
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God's Own Country
Australia, 2007. I'd made pals with an Aussie teacher, Hamish, for a year and he invited me to come stay with him and his family in...
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Spring has sprung
Well, not quite yet but nearly there. We're at the tail end of February and barely two weeks ago I was freezing my nuts off during a run...
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
A short bio of Crazy Horse, a man of great courage who fought against the tide of history to preserve the lifeways of his people.
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The Old Enemy?
So....things are not looking so great between us and erstwhile partners in Europe at the moment. The country is fairly polarised on this...
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Land of the Chiricahua
I've always tried to seek out the sacred places of America. Sacred that is to the First Nations people who have lived there for countless...
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Touch
We have quietly, almost without noticing, drifted into a new strange awareness. We have become something other than ourselves. I now look...
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Going viral
So, 2020 seemed to be The Year of Living Dangerously and 2021, after the inevitable January Blues was going to get better and we'd all...
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FIRESTARTER
So, there's a good reason - many in fact - why I call this blog 'Shayfer's Fire'. I've been fascinated by the fiery stuff since I was...
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ICING
Right now I'm a million miles away from the pungent smoke, welcome crackle and hypnotic blaze of a camp fire on an Autumn evening as the...
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The Best Bits.....
So....the film magazine, 'EMPIRE', had a feature in which people from the industry chose their favourite, riveting, most moving or...
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Over the Pond...
So...it's not my intention to bang on about politics for these fireside chats but....y'know, today is a big day for our cousins over The...
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DER BAUER (farmer)
I had a gallery of photos to choose for the background of my web site. Forests, lakes, seascapes, vistas of classical English countryside.
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Welcome to Shayfer's Fire!
Come, find a space. Don't sit too near or the sparks'll get you. The night's drawing in, let's talk by the warmth of the fire...
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