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If I say: ‘Goodnight from Michael Sleep, working in his shed to feed his prophesying homunculi …’ you have both the show’s premise and an understanding of why it feels so Hooklandian to me. Everyday weirdness in stories about people like us.

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

Goodnight from Roz Greene, braiding her fingers with her lover’s out of both fear and desire as they walk the dark of Needle Lane. Goodnight from David Sands, perturbed by the petrol station cashier twitching when he mentioned he was driving up to Vow Hill. Goodnight from Hookland.

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The Long Neolithic is continuity with our fundamental nature. To step into a stone circles is to know we are pattern makers, season markers. It is a knowing we have always looked to sky, always had our rituals and mysteries of death. We are lithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.

Goodnight from No. 45 Ambler Street, where the spider in the spare room is weaving omens into its web without much hope of valid interpretation. Goodnight from Jerry Reston, feeling uneasy having picked up a hitchhiker with hands that appear to be made of bronze. Goodnight from Hookland.

Every hour is the witching hour. We are as potent at dawn or noon as we are at the suggested 3am. We flourish during the solar alchemy of twilight. We are creatures of the threshold. The turning of time is a powerful engine of magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Our film of the month for January 2026 is Chronicle - Silbury Dig: The Heart of the Mound. A strange televised archaeological dig into Silbury Hill.

You can watch the film on the ‘Film Club’ page on our website 📽️🎞️🍿

Happy Birthday!!

Donate to Save the Heritage Centre, organized by David Bridson It is with huge regret and great sadness that the Joseph Williamson Society has to report that,… David Bridson needs your support for Save the Heritage Centre

If you've ever marvelled at the vaulted Victorian subterranea of Liverpool's Williamson tunnels you have The Heritage Centre to thank. Unfortunately, it will be closing for good on June 1st if they can't raise £12k.

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I've just completed three new Lone Wolf covers for the Italian publishers. Would anyone like to see some prints of these?

I'm still deciding where to put mine up! @hiddenbritain.bsky.social

Biscuit enjoying the sun yesterday here at #BelmontHouse 😺

Wonderland (James Cox, 2003)

The Salton Sea (D.J. Caruso, 2002)

Spartan (David Mamet, 2004)

#RIP Val Kilmer. During Lockdown, after watching his amazing turn in Tombstone, I went on a bit of a Kilmer binge. Here are three of his *lesser-known early Noughties performances that really blew me away.
*If they’re not lesser-known to you, assume I already know this.

Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...

Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
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Here's another good (and timely) online course from @carterhaughschool.bsky.social. I think the world of Dr. Brittany Warman & Dr. Sara Cleto, the folklore scholars behind this school, who have created a vibrant online community at Carterhaugh. Follow the link below if you'd like to know more.

#stormySundayVibes

On the turn of Midnight, on the very bounds, the ragged rone of Christmastide, Old Fox had quietly left the sleeping cottage. Under the clear, cold January sky he went, lantern in one paw, withy basket in another, along the frost-hardened field-paths up to the highest point in the Barrows. There he waited, patient and unmoving, until a lanterned party could be seen far below along the Sea Road; three travellers and their servants treading a glimmering path of star-light, a path so strange and so important, that it must be followed year on year on year. He signalled to them with his light and they stayed a while until he reached them, and he gave them Twelfth Cake and wine, and talked with them in bounded formal words, which must not change lest the story falter and snag its golden threads. When the morning star rose, they left and Old Fox watched them walk along that ancient Dorset road, towards the still-dark village and beyond, their bright silks and pearls fading into the dawn light, until he could only see faint shadows by the Winter briar.

The Three Magi from a late 12th century manuscript held at the J. Paul Getty Museum

A fox looks into the camera with an inscrutable expression. His fur and eyes are amber.

Jealous

Sunlight falls on deep snow by a winding brook

A fox's profile silhouetted against the darkness.

Lit candles in silver holders decorate the branches of a Christmas tree.

That dusk, in the dark drawing room, Old Fox lit the beeswax candles on the spruce tree for the last time & the ghosts of the past & of those yet to come stepped forward, held in their spun-gold for a brief weighted moment, for the end of Yuletide is leaden with time, with the fugacity of all things

10th Anniversary Season:
Episode 167
THE 10TH KINGDOM
with guest, Simon Moore

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We look at the classic TV series 10th Kingdom with its writer.

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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Ever since the class project on ancient Egypt, the children have taken to calling a particular grave 'the Moss Mummy'. They leave her all sorts of afterlife offerings. I'm told she is fond of sherbet dabs, rhubarb and custard chews as well as certain bubblegum cards. – Joanna Vickers, 1982 #VOH

a fox jumping over a fossilized sea urchin, below red flamelike flower petals. Line drawing and water colour, Maria Strutz

Fox jumping over a fossil over a sea of cuetlaxochitl 🦊🐾🖤

"Time travel, magic, and cats - what more could you want?" ⌛️🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🪄
Explore the enchanting world of Jinny Lane this #BookologyThursday with Elijah Barns' "The Witch and Jet Splinters" series. "A Bustle In The Hedgerow" and "The Shadow Cutters" await! 🧙‍♀️📚✨ #ElijahBarns #Bookchatweekly #NewYearReads 📖

The mire edge in winter never entirely convinces me it's asleep. Sometimes I'm sure the slow breaths of Stay Belows at mud bubble up to the surface. Sometimes in the water's stillness as it waits on ice alchemy, I am sure I see the reflection of the Iron-clawed Hag's spirit. – Joanna Vickers #VOH

Fact of the Day: The Viggen airplane is made by Volvo and is the world's only biofuel jet fighter running on fuel made from a secret mix of used cooking oil and Irn-bru. The name Viggen derives from Viggen, the Swedish word for Vegan

Photographed from a Canberra

Photo of the Day: The Typhoon (made by Eurovision) painted in the famous "Leopard" colour scheme as a tribute to the Panzer tanks of the same name used by the Super Army Soldiers during the Falklands war in 1926

Photographed from a Canberra