Episode 5

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16th May 2022

The Flowering Moon of May

Welcome to Sleeping with the Moon charting my 12 full moon sleepovers of 2021.

Last May I climbed in the evening's dying light onto Cadbury Iron Age hillfort in North Somerset on the eve of our daughter’s birth 22 years ago to the day. 

The moon rose Jaffa-ripe in the east as the sun sank below the western horizon towards the sea’s high tide range.

Springtime gestation to early summer awakening blossoms ready to unfurl

Late spring beginning to full waxing blooming the lunar dance blisters and burns

28 nine’s growing towards flower child’s becoming the full moon rises and falls

Late summer conception to late May reception the flower child nears its call

Thanks go to Lindsey Rose Inman for her song, ’Sing the Pain Away’, which conveys so much vulnerability alongside late spring potency and the fully-fledged power of early summer

Credits

Words written and performed by Michael Loader

Music written and performed by Lindsey Rose Inman

Produced by Pommy Harmar

Links

https://soundcloud.com/lindsey-rose-inman

www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com

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About the Podcast

Sleeping with the Moon
What does a full moon mean to you? Have you ever slept out under one and watched it rise?

Storyteller Michael Loader has done just that. During the year of 2021, he spent one night a month sleeping out in a bivvi bag under the full moon and each experience inspired him to create a unique piece of writing.

On each full moon during 2022, we will release that story.

Produced by Pommy Harmar
Photo by Alex Andrews from www.pexels.com

About your hosts

Michael Loader

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Michael Loader is a storyteller, writer and workshop leader working with all ages from pre-schoolers to elders. He works with the Read For Good charity in children’s hospitals, director of Somerset Storyfest and storyteller in residence with Wild Words at St George’s concert hall Bristol.

“Michael clearly has storytelling in his soul and his love of people and of engaging the audience in the story is abundantly apparent in all of his wonderful shows”.
National Arboretum Westonbirt

Email: foolworks@yahoo.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Somerset-Storyfest-428942520456383/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCPBIzlPFZQiO4HwRlwMjz4w

Pommy Harmar

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Freelance journalist, radio producer, podcaster and walker, Pommy has been working in radio since 2013. She has produced and hosted podcasts including Footprints, The Quarantini, and Follow The Sun.

Footprints season 2 starts January 2022, a podcast produced for Bathscape exploring inter-generational themes around the landscape surrounding the city of Bath.

"Big, big fan of your podcast. All your topics were relevant and fascinating to me as an older, female solo walker for the first time in the U.K." (Season 1 listener)

Email: pommyharmar@yahoo.co.uk