Monthly Blog from Silvermoon.
January 2009
So here we are in 2009! and what a year!
Already
we have seen many well-established businesses disappearing from our high
streets, and we expect to see more of this before the year is out.
We seem to face the prospect of a very dismal time ahead of us, but I believe that we can look at this in a far more positive way... this has been coming for a long time, things were just not able to continue as they were for the last few years...house prices hitting the roof, so much cheap food available that we waste more than we eat! Credit available to anyone who asked for it, irrespective of whether they could actually pay it back or not! You have to agree that it could not go on forever.
We waste our resources and we rape the planet of its wonderful bounty...We are careless with what we have.... and we discard things without thought...it had to stop!
We at Silvermoon and Harlequin are seeing this as a positive thing long-term, yes okay we are going to be poorer for a while, some of us will really have to struggle to keep our business is going, and we will have to draw on the old ' wartime spirit' of making the best of what we have, and making use of everything that we have... and wasting nothing!
In the long-term this has to be good I am sure you will agree! Already we notice people are being far more careful with little things even, people are being more thoughtful about the shopping that they do especially food shopping, and when people buy goods from us at Harlequin on one of our market days, it is very rarely for them to ask for a bag to carry it away in, they usually have a stock already with them. this has got to make a major impact on our wildlife situation! We are slowlybecoming more responsible ....because we have to.
I believe the best way forward is to make this a challenge, perhaps a personal challenge to see how little we can harm the environment and how much we can reuse and recycle... and also to see how little we need to actually survive... because it is a fact that the less you have, the more appreciative you are of what you do have and have any extra treats that come your way.
Okay that's my soapbox bit for this month! lets hope for a good year despite the restrictions and problems that we will face, and let's enjoy everything to the full!! We still have the essentials, a beautiful planet, enough food, sunshine, soft rain, beautiful woods-seas and rivers with all the wildlife that they contain. Let's spend this year making the most of what we have and not grieving for what we have not!
Here at Silvermoon we have gone against the usual trend...it has been pointed out to me by more than one of our regular clients that many psychic sites are actually putting up the prices of their readings! I find this very strange and non-productive even businesswise!
We have come to the decision that the people that support us loyally should have support themselves, and not be castigated because we are living in recession right now...at the beginning of the financial problems, we began to offer a short five pound e-mail reading from our top spirit medium and clairvoyant Maeve...more recently we extended this also to Lily... and those of you who belong to our 'Newsletter Club' can now exclusively obtain as many short £7 readings from Crystal as they choose to have!
(you automatically become a member of our 'Newsletter Club' if you have ordered something from any of our psychics sites or goods from Made in Moray within the past six months, unless of course you 'opt out' of the newsletter. We will be offering more bargains and 'freebies' during 2009)
We initially intended only to offer these reduced price e-mail readings for December and January this year, but we have had so many lovely letters from you thanking us for making these offers available, that we have now decided to extend the offers indefinitely for the moment. We feel that having supported us through the good times, we should support you through the difficult times, as this is when you really need a little bit of help and support from us!
So we go into 2009 with no real knowledge of where it will take us, or how the year will end up. personally I believe that this difficult phase will last a lot longer than this year and it may be 2012 before things begin to really pick up for us again, but we can do a lot to help ourselves, it really requires a different way of thinking... and if you want to be really adventurous in your thinking and make surviving 'fun' then try to obtain a copy of a book by John Seymour, called 'self-sufficiency'
John Seymour was something of a cult figure in a way during the 60s and 70s, as he opted out and grew most of his, and his extending families own food on a small plot of land and writing a book about it....thus starting a whole self-sufficiency movement, (of which I was part!)
Of course it is not possible to follow everything he recommends slavishly, and that was never John's idea, but it gives a new perspective on how we could live being free of some of the restrictions that burden us at the moment.... and in this day and age I think it is again very relevant!
So lets go forward in hope rather than in despair! Let's make it fun and we may learn a great deal!
Here at Silvermoon we intend to survive the recession, and will be here for you whenever you need us!
Harlequin.
We will be attending
Elgin
farmer's market, and Aberdeen country fair in Belmont Street on two Saturdays of
every month.
(see www.madeinmoray.co.uk for 2009 dates shortly...
We may also be attending Huntley Farmers Market which is the first Saturday of every month... with lots of new handcrafted ' Made in Moray' gifts and crafts.
Aberdeen Belmont St. Market.
Happy New Year to you all!
With blessings!
From Crystal and the team at Silvermoon.
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