Oh, I’ve never seen this movie. Thanks for the recommend.

If you love her, build her a shelter in haunted woodland guarded by owls.

A lovely fluffy buff-tailed bumblebee I photographed a few summers ago.

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business. Nature is us.

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Some Photos From My Family's Archive And The Cult Low Budget Horror Films They Became This is a free post, but taking out a paid subscription here helps me write more of the stuff I love to write, and will give you access to lots of exclusive writing in the near future.

Being from the UK and a member of the late part of Generation X means having to live with the fact that every photo from your childhood resembles a still from a cultishly acclaimed but commercially disappointing folk horror film.

ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE...
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Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?

Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.

As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.

THREAD.

3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

Hey Patrons!

We've been gone a long time, but tomorrow the "We Hate Uncle Lewis Club" returns to the basement of My Very Curious Curio Shop for another Super Secret Meeting!

Topic: "Wedding in Black" (Season 2 Ep 21).

#horrorpodcast #fridaythe13ththeseries #80shorror #canadianhorror #nostalgia

If you subscribe to my writing, ever have done, ever have any vague intention of doing so, I'd appreciate if you took a quick read of this..

Roscoe, leaning a bit too nonchalantly on a fence, in summer

A sure sign that my cat has been up to no good is when she sees me and immediately tries too hard to act casual.

A scarecrow who has got drunk on extra strength lager and, rather embarrassingly, is now reliving his glory days in the Royal Air Force.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

A photo I took of my friend Rosie walking along the beach at Covehithe, Suffolk

Finally nailed the promotional photo for my East Anglian remake of Don't Look Now, which tells the same story, but using all the locations from Whistle And I'll Come To You.

Cat: “I cannot convey to you just how much I genuinely despise this food.”
Me: “Here, have this instead.”
Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.”
Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.”
Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”

A sheep becomes upset, having just got ready to take its all-time best photo of itself, only for me to come along in a flowery shirt and ruin it.

This sheep tried its very best to take a good selfie until I came along and ruined everything by photobombing it.

A photo of terrifying toothy pumpkin-headed folk horror children from the distant past.

A spooky story I wrote (which I promise isn't nearly as terrifying as this photo): www.tom-cox.com/lillian/

I'm not much for writing advice, but I'll say this: If you write, the internet - its breakneck pace & cracked attention spans - will create a parallel surface narrative of your work. The ability to ignore it & realise it's got fuck all to do with you, or anything you've actually written, is useful.

Interdimensional portals found on walks this week.

Some Ghosts I Have Known Who Have Turned Out To Be Massive Dickheads This post is free for everyone to read but on the off chance you'd like to support my writing you can do so here, at a price of your choice from £20 per year (you can also make a one-off donation here...

After hearing stories of the ghost in Somerset's Quantock Hills who tells passing walkers to fuck off, I decided to write about some of the other ghosts I've come across who have turned out to be massive dickheads: www.tom-cox.com/some-ghosts-...

This is happening again and again from Substack users & is costing me a fortune. I've explained endless times how simple it is to cancel a subscription to my site.

I've gone, over the last few months from, "Substack isn't for me" to "Substack is fucking evil & people need to know about this shit".

A photo I took of a freshly washed bee, who is feeling particularly proud of his fur

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

Wait until he hears about our health care

They don't care that they're hypocrites. They'll lie to your face smiling while they slide a knife in your gut and ship your family to a camp; all for a 0.5% increase over last quarter's profit.

They voted for this now they are reaping what they sowed

It’s a crime to cut a little girl’s hair like that

If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.

Yes, Charlie Kirk called for President Biden to be imprisoned and put to death, but he was so well-groomed when he said it so ...

The UK fired their ambassador to the US over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Meanwhile, Epstein’s best friend remains the President of the United States.

A sheep staring intimidatingly over a wall in an attempt to watch one of the more tightly written episodes of the 1980s sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles.

For fuck's sake, Michelle, I'm not telling you again: stop trying to watch our telly through the window. Pay for your own.