 Storytelling
Programmes
Mike likes to be spontaneous in his choice of stories,
relating them to the situation: the mood, the audience, the weather,
the venue, the possibility of saying the right thing to someone
who might buy him a drink.
However on some occasions there are fixed programmes
of related stories. One of these is a series of stories based
around a legend that Guinevere's funeral is to be seen walking
the Wansdyke, from Amesbury to Glastonbury.
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 "Guenevere's
Funeral - the long tramping road to Eden"
The title comes from a legend that Guenevere's funeral cortege
can sometimes be seen travelling from Amesbury to Glastonbury.
Michael assures us that if you sit, of an evening, in the garden
of the excellent Barge Inn in Honeystreet in the Vale of Pewsey,
you might sometimes see the silhouette of Guenevere's funeral
cortege against the evening sky - if you've consumed enough pints
of Crop Circle that is! The Road to Eden is a group of stories
based around tracks, green lanes and ancient paths.
Mike was delighted that after a performance of
these stories at The Earthouse in Cranborne, the artist Ann Richards
was inspired to make a felt
picture of a central image in the story
Mike also has story cycles based around hollow
hills and stagnant pools, , the poem "Lob",
by Edward Thomas and the idea of circumambulations
- from circumambulating sacred sites, to trundling round the M25!
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