Jonathan Shayfer

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

So....things are not looking so great between us and erstwhile partners in Europe at the moment. The country is fairly polarised on this...

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...

We have quietly, almost without noticing, drifted into a new strange awareness. We have become something other than ourselves. I now look...

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...

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...

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...

So....the film magazine, 'EMPIRE', had a feature in which people from the industry chose their favourite, riveting, most moving or...

I had a gallery of photos to choose for the background of my web site. Forests, lakes, seascapes, vistas of classical English countryside.

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...