Kim M Barrett

“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails”
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe

The young starlings are pictured feeding on late blackberries

“The starlings in this picture are at the halfway stage between their juvenile and adult plumage”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
‘What to Look for in Autumn’ (1960)

An elaborate spray of midsummer flowers frame of view through wheat fields towards an expansive landscape. The wheat has been harvested and stands in stooks while on the hill a white windmill turns under a sunny sky.

Other work of the Ladybird artists. Shell Guide, 1955.
‘August’
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder

The green-haloed grave guardians of Ashcourt Necropolis wear their feral finery with studied boredom. They sigh in slow seasons, think in years. Mute moirologists whose professional grief lasts until the weather breaks their limbs, erases their expressions of loss. – #DAKilroy, 1982

(Radio Mexico International at 51:53 is superb)

YouTube video by The Shortwave Archive The Ultimate Compilation of Shortwave Radio Interval Signals and ID's

the static lullaby youtu.be/mlRKydr5Dwk?...

@hookland.bsky.social

I'd be keeping an eye on that tractor.

Very grainy film photo of a garden with space age furniture overlooked by a pylon, embossed with the words kodacolor II from the paper backing of the expired film roll circe 1970s

Very grainy film photo of a house and roses emerging from the film fog, embossed with the words kodacolor II from the paper backing of the expired film roll circe 1970s

Very grainy film photos of a woman with curly hair and a shirt with 70s style lapels in a garden, embossed with the words kodacolor II from the paper backing of the expired film roll circe 1970s

Very grainy film photo of a garden with space age furniture and a woman gardening, embossed with the words kodacolor II from the paper backing of the expired film roll circe 1970s

A junk shop roll of found photos so old the text from the backing paper has etched in over the years. Kodacolor II was made from 1973 to the early 80s and the clothes/space-age garden furniture seem to say 70s. Transmissions from a lost world.

YouTube video by Cameron Self Around the Rings of Saturn

@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social and I were delighted by the response to our new W.G. Sebald film. Thanks to everyone who responded/contacted us. (We have a film about the Fens in the pipeline.)
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I both long for such a thing and fear it greatly

Oh the marvellous terror it would be to see a cube

Goodnight, Hookland

Among my favourite Hookland dialect words is widkerwep - the sadness one feels at coming to the end of wood and seeing the last section of a path leading out of it. Hooklanders also use widkerwep to mean the taking of a needed action that brings a sense of loss. - #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WOTD

Two owls sit on a branch surrounded by leaves.

'Two Owls in a Dark Forest' - Tokuriki Tomikichiro, ca. 1950s.
#OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

For while there is a language of flowers, it is in the meadow that it becomes poetry. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Flowers

a sea creature undulating through relatively still waters, a hilly landscape in the background framing the waterscape. Linocut, black and white, Maria Strutz

I carved and printed an impression of the Maryworth Sea Serpent a few years ago after reading some of the reports. From afar she looks ever so beautiful 🖤

In 1966, signalman Ray Wise observes a giant green pyramid, hovering above the London-Ashcourt railway lines. Subsequent investigation shows the surrounding area, including the signal box, had been subject to intense heat. #HOTD (Hookland On This Day)

How bizzare, I just read about La Bas in the novel Zeroville which is a very good book. The main character Vikar reads La Bas over and over compulsively and wants to make a film of it. I don't know yet if he does this.

Country diary: Who’s to say there’s nothing supernatural about a storm? | Paul Evans The Marches, Shropshire: The thunder over the hill is spectacular, reverberating in everything below it

".. the call of the curlew, a song just west of grief.." Country diary: Who’s to say there’s nothing supernatural about a storm? | Paul Evans www.theguardian.com/environment/...

the land that gives wort and bane

The Mad Bomber of Twentynine Palms Podcast Episode · Desert Oracle Radio · 05/19/2025 · 28m

New episode!

Written, hosted, edited, and produced by @kenlayne.bsky.social

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This is a great episode. We are haunted in real time.

Missing Toddler Reappears, 7 Miles Across the Arizona Mountains Podcast Episode · Desert Oracle Radio · 04/19/2025 · 28m

New Episode!

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Poor Charlie - but if Hartley St Mary finds him first?

Some say it's hard to be an urban witch. I disagree. I walk outside and the puddle on the pavement is my scrying mirror. I collect omens from the trash in the gutter. I guerrilla garden so I'm not confined by walls. Foxes bring me gossip. Streets sing me their secret names.– #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

The lithophone strikes me as a peak #Hookland instrument @hookland.bsky.social

A gorgeous depiction of a Hookland Wicker King. We don’t use the word gorgeous enough for work of such dark magnificence that it gives us shivers.

Slightly stylised close-up of a robin in song, perched on a twig in early blossom. In the background, the stark branches of large winter trees against a grey sky.

‘Robin’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
(Birds and how they Live, 1965)

Not just me then! I was so confused.

he wip’d it out,
Destroy’d his country, and his name remains
To th’ ensuing age abhorr’d.