Hey guys, I hope you all had a wonderful Spooky Season as we at IYHGYHE did! I have been working on a number of books including the 2027 Practical Distillers Almanac and have become quite taken with writing fairytales and poems expressing the Majik of this place where I live. I decided to narrate a few of these for you this evening. To be quite honest this is by far my most personal episode to date and I think represents the purist expression of my thoughts as of yet to be represented to the public.

We all have limits and boundaries to overcome in life and I think I may have found a way to overcome mine and bring the various disperate pieces together into a cohesive whole in coming years. I do hope you will enjoy them and please, please share them. They will all see some published form in the near future. Here you will hear a folk tale about a hidden fountain that produces ardent spirits with the help of a Clurichon. Folk Majik I leaned from my grandparents. A poem about a folk distiller on the edge of town. How the highway meets the sky in the Black Forest, and my personal favorite, Felix, the maybe friendly feral, feline, familiar!

A huge thank you to my friend Stephen Smith for inspiring me to pursue this path.

1. The Forbidden Kind

2. A Step At A Time

3. Where The Highway Meets The Sky

4. The Sovereign Man

5. Felix; the maybe friendly, feral, feline, familiar.

Keep an eye on The Alchemist Cabinet

in the coming days for an order link for the brand new 2025 Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac!!!

Kim is joined this week by YeOldGothWitch Jamie Walker who coined the phrase "Anybody else's mountain witch granny..." from Tik Tok. Follow Jamie under the same handle across all platforms

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