Mark Caldwell

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The anniversary cinema rerelease was 3 nightly shows with one ending per night and much that I love the film that's a lot of Clue in a week

Yes Clue would also make my list - was tempted by the cinema rerelease but not shown at one I could get to and I want all 3 endings version

A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif

And our long running (22+ years) Call of Cthulhu / Hellboy game should reach that point in about 5 years given we're now in 1941

Snail on windscreen wiper

Unexpected hitchhiker picked up somewhere on my loop round the country today

Unfortunately I can't tell from scent if it's a Liverpool or West Midlands snail

Cthulhu would have done a more tasteful redecoration

Evelyn But The Girl.

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

A figure in the dark woods is shocked by finding a strange creature

wrong place, wrong time

#digitalart #rpg #horror

Depiction of Bael, “the first king of hell”, with the head of a toad, a man, and a cat — one of the many illustrations by Louis le Breton for the 1863 edition of Jacques Collin de Plancy’s "Dictionnaire infernal". More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/defining-the-demonic/

ORR grants Virgin Trains access to Temple Mills: the low risk option - Jon Worth The UK’s Office of Rail and Road has today decided that Virgin Trains should have access to the Temple Mills depot in east London to maintain its future Channel Tunnel fleet, and has rejected applicat...

My first analysis of ORR granting Virgin Trains access to Temple Mills (and rejecting applications from Gemini, Trenitalia, Evolyn)

jonworth.eu/orr-grants-v...

#CrossChannelRail

Slow Horses series 5 so, so good

Loved the Chekhov's g̶u̶n̶ object

And the series 6 trailer

Rain on window looking into very wet Liverpool 1 towards M&S

Bit wet out

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Think they picked the right night

Also only choke point was bridge in Albert Dock and funneling, barriers and marshals kept that moving

Seen some snotty write ups saying not as good as last year but as a regular punter not someone who gets to do press night I'd say this is as good

Not as interactive but the lines last year to get a brief moment on something were terrible

Looks like I timed River of Light walk this year perfectly - did all the installations and got bus in the dry and now it's started raining

1) At last! Having submitted last April, the gears of academic publishing have finally ground round and my article on Twilight: 2000 in the Journal of American Studies is now available! And it's open access, so anyone can engage with it!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In a large hostel space full of tables and chairs, a large slab of cement board sits atop a table. It is half covered in white 'metro' tiles, and the tools to continue tiling rest on the board.

The same piece of work. The tiling is now complete, and piles of scraped-off excess grey grout cover the white tiles.

Dressed in black, and with terrible posture, I trace an image that is being projected onto the now-clean tiles from a chair. The tile board is about 1.2 metres tall and propped up against a tall table that's piled high with board games.

The tiles are now painted, although the job isn't completely finished and it's not perfectly neat. The 'background' tiles are painted a blood red behind a blue-grey archway pattern. In the middle of the archway is the text 'NO WAY OUT' and a double-headed arrow pointing both left and right.

'Sarah, I think this is the least portable TTRPG artwork I've ever seen.'

😬👍🏻

That is going above and beyond to get the perfect look for a piece in a book and I look forward to seeing it

I was just glad I was helping someone carry it into the show from a van - pretty sure at the end of the day it went in a bin rather than back into the van

An enormous worm-like creature hangs in the sky over an isolated cabin.

horror from the stars

#digitalart #rpg #cthulhu

Almost - I once carried a quarter of a 12 foot high map of Britain made by cutting out polystyrene sheets and sticking them to a board so marker pins could be put in to it into a con for someone

A 6 foot by 4 foot board that was both light and caught tiniest breeze

I do get speciality dried stuff from Indian deli as big Tesco has limited variety and more choice in canned these days

Weird I get them in kilo bags from Tesco

A hi tech laboratory. Technicians work at computer work stations. A glass cylinder contains an unhappy bespectacled figure in a striped top and hat. A scientist explains to two colleagues: "The subject will be returned to his natural habitat. But now, thanks to our implanted tracking device, we can answer the question 'Where's Wally?' in microseconds rather than hours. "

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

All those people playing non-professional sport who are just expecting one day to get the call up to the $$$$

YouTube video by Norwich Games Festival NGF25: James Wallis - So You've Designed A Game

At the Norwich Games Festival I gave a talk called 'So You've Designed A Game', about the various ways you can get your creation into print and on sale, and people seemed to like it. Now NGF has put the video online and you can watch me explain things: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSvi...

I was about to say the same - so just adding noise to the conversation