G K Lomax

Goodnight from Daisy Magor, on shotgun patrol with husband and son in case any more spacemen from the Planet Skareg come floating across the fields of Greenhole Farm. Goodnight from David Gore, inking invitations to the spirits of Ashourt’s old Red Rookery. Goodnight from Hookland.

Day five of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration and the Star Wraith haunts a branch. The hooded figurine, face and body made from constellations of enamelled stars, seems to float more than dangle. Oddly, the stars seem to have shifted position each time you look closely at it.

Goodnight from Jonah Lidstone, cutting out monsters and Bone Horses from tin cans to adorn the family Christmas tree. Goodnight from Holly Grace, wondering if a whole bag of sherbet lemons is enough appeasement for the Punkle living in their shed. Goodnight from Hookland.

What line do you have for Nine?

Looks cool, but that protuberance would mean it wouldn't sit properly on a shelf alongside other books.

“He wouldn’t be the first radio ham in Hookland to become convinced creatures are living in the cold static between stations.”
“The first to try and blow up a BBC transmitter though.”
“Not even the first to do that. The path between static beasts and bombs is well trod.”
- #DICallaghan & #DSNokes

Oak door frame with oak door stained by tannins from iron nails

Oak in its beauty objects to old nails yet somehow they add to its lustre. Delightful doorway at Clare, Suffolk, for #AdoorableThursday

Barrett Deems. Admittedly he was an old man at the time, but it was still a great experience.

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm. How it all began.

"I feel quite guilty every time I hear of someone's having spent valuable time looking up the Necronomicon at public libraries."
—H. P. Lovecraft to James Blish, 3 Jun 1936, ML 376

Unlike other English counties with bears on their coats of arms, the silvered Ghost Bear of Hookland is unmuzzled, uncollared and unchained. For the Ghost Bear of armorial bearings is the legendary creature that terrorised the Normans in both its physical and spectral forms.

Goodnight from Phil Holt, trying to make a spectre detector with valves and capacitors salvaged from old Ekco and Sobell radios. Goodnight from Janey Brake, more nervous than is good for any child after a bedtime story of blood red fog covering the Restal Waste. Goodnight from Hookland.

Never forget: Art matters.

Jimi Hendrix

Megalithic tomb flanked by four standing stones.

Wayland’s Smithy, July 2023. #TombTuesday

For folk magic is often a serious of fragile truces with the land, a series of appeasements made to nature’s legion of spirits. The cunning folk are diplomats to enfolding otherworlds. Few in the Foreign Office could match their skill. - Dr. M. Benn, 1981 lecture at Woden College, Weychester

Day 2 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We gently take the Master of Moss from box. He’s old and fragile, made from twig, clay and clumps of Moss gathered on Barrowcross. We find him a respectful place on the tree and hope he sleeps the season. His waking would be terrible

Dear Amazon -

I expected the books I bought recently to sit on my shelves for an extended period, waking me feel guilty about not having got round to reading them.

They have matched my expectations.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Goodnight from the Gelgrove Stitching Society, its members steadily embroidering new Woodwose legends into the village’s banner. Goodnight from Paul Watson’s darkroom, where things not seen in his viewfinder are manifesting in the developing bath. Goodnight from Hookland.

Stop calling it "Reading" and call it "Research" instead.

“You will be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits

Casual reminder for comics fans

Please pick up a book book from time to time

Literature is good for the soul and it makes you a better more rounded comic fan 💙

Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday Link for more information: https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-one-light-day-earth/

Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday

Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...

Goodnight from Jack Hurley, still taking helpful directions from his dead wife as he pushes their Vauxhall Victor F towards Burwood. Goodnight from Chas Foster, fixing newspapers to the windows of his shed so no-one can see him making illegal sprite traps. Goodnight from Hookland.

Curly wooden rails in a barely twisted fashion.

Barley twist because it’s possible; delightful turned railings at Denston in Suffolk, dazzling in swirling complexity.

There comes a point when we begin to encounter more polite, respectful and well-mannered ghosts than we do people. This is why I tell those who ask that I prefer the company of spectres to that of the living. - #CJosiffe #Ghosts

POND RULES: No swimming, jumping or gallivanting. Do not disturb the pond witch. No fishing with dynamite. Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS! Taunt the crows at your own risk. If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away. Do not feed the weretrout. Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger! They’re not ducks. Run. Have fun!

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

It's a Wonderful Life.

Nothing else is in the conversation.

15 years of having to watch ppl argue about whether Die Hard is the best Christmas movie when Home Alone is right there