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People don't like to talk about the time when the trees of Whirlow Wood grew wooden people to send as emissaries to Barwell village. People don't talk about the Treaty of the Axe. The ongoing offerings. – Ruth Hyde #VOH
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
People don't like to talk about the time when the trees of Whirlow Wood grew wooden people to send as emissaries to Barwell village. People don't talk about the Treaty of the Axe. The ongoing offerings. – Ruth Hyde #VOH
When our lives become more constrained, more bruised and darker than the dying light of the year, our friends shine bloody bright.
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
When our lives become more constrained, more bruised and darker than the dying light of the year, our friends shine bloody bright.
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In honour of it being skating season, a reminder that The Fall is good music for figure skating, and more teams should do that.
youtu.be/CiL06yHiMwo?...
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2015 Russian Synchronised Skating Team dance to 'The Joke' by the Fall
YouTube video by Grant Philpott
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November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In honour of it being skating season, a reminder that The Fall is good music for figure skating, and more teams should do that.
youtu.be/CiL06yHiMwo?...
youtu.be/CiL06yHiMwo?...
Yes, we are up to bog witch mischief.
@tomsbrown.bsky.social She falls into her bog bed. Peat-pillowed. Moss-blanketed. Cradled by its brown waters. A protection of humic acids, tannins. Heather honey on the tongue of her bitter dreams.
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Yes, we are up to bog witch mischief.
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People talk about us Children of The Hum as 'weirdo hippies, 'ragged walkers' blindly following something they couldn't hear, couldn't understand. They never understood that we lived in a landscape of wonder. They saw pylons, we saw sublime structures. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
People talk about us Children of The Hum as 'weirdo hippies, 'ragged walkers' blindly following something they couldn't hear, couldn't understand. They never understood that we lived in a landscape of wonder. They saw pylons, we saw sublime structures. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
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Here’s Sarah of the break-spell
Here’s cousin Jem of the curse
Give me Bloody Emma who twists the knife and makes it worse
- Trad. Hookland witch rhyme
Here’s cousin Jem of the curse
Give me Bloody Emma who twists the knife and makes it worse
- Trad. Hookland witch rhyme
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Here’s Sarah of the break-spell
Here’s cousin Jem of the curse
Give me Bloody Emma who twists the knife and makes it worse
- Trad. Hookland witch rhyme
Here’s cousin Jem of the curse
Give me Bloody Emma who twists the knife and makes it worse
- Trad. Hookland witch rhyme
How did we ever allow the idea that things which are not to our taste are bad to become the dominant form of ‘fan’ discourse?
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How did we ever allow the idea that things which are not to our taste are bad to become the dominant form of ‘fan’ discourse?
Those of you who know of my previous adventures wandering around hospitals at night and be accused of being Jesus (including the “Lord don’t take me now, I’ve got a coach holiday booked” incident) will be pleased to know I cannot walk the corridors at the moment.
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Those of you who know of my previous adventures wandering around hospitals at night and be accused of being Jesus (including the “Lord don’t take me now, I’ve got a coach holiday booked” incident) will be pleased to know I cannot walk the corridors at the moment.
I have had worse views.
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I have had worse views.
Corridors to screw with you during your OBE.
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Corridors to screw with you during your OBE.
Here we go again.
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Here we go again.
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New book/mail day is always an excellent day.
Plus when @cultauthor.bsky.social says someone's worth a read, you should probably pay attention.
Plus when @cultauthor.bsky.social says someone's worth a read, you should probably pay attention.
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
New book/mail day is always an excellent day.
Plus when @cultauthor.bsky.social says someone's worth a read, you should probably pay attention.
Plus when @cultauthor.bsky.social says someone's worth a read, you should probably pay attention.
“Like some Soho Miss Haversham …” Mrs. S. with the killer putdowns tonight.
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Like some Soho Miss Haversham …” Mrs. S. with the killer putdowns tonight.
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#VOH stands for Voices of Hookland, because you can’t tell the truths of anywhere and exclude voices that aren’t the middle class academics, authors and professionals the weird fiction genre relies too heavily upon. Dairy men, shelf stackers, factory workers all sing the strange truths of place.
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
#VOH stands for Voices of Hookland, because you can’t tell the truths of anywhere and exclude voices that aren’t the middle class academics, authors and professionals the weird fiction genre relies too heavily upon. Dairy men, shelf stackers, factory workers all sing the strange truths of place.
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Goodnight from Rob Eley, sure he can see rough and not entirely human shapes on Salt Tear Marsh. Goodnight from Weychester University Library, where the sound of pages being turned has not stopped even though no living reader is left on the premises. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Goodnight from Rob Eley, sure he can see rough and not entirely human shapes on Salt Tear Marsh. Goodnight from Weychester University Library, where the sound of pages being turned has not stopped even though no living reader is left on the premises. Goodnight from Hookland.
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The wooden bestiaries of England's churches offer a library of carved folklore. Here a giant wyrm or ghost bear to keep you company as you pray. There a manticore, flown from far Persia, to growl at tedious homilies. – John Betjeman, The English Alphabet , BBC Two, 1972 #Folklore
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The wooden bestiaries of England's churches offer a library of carved folklore. Here a giant wyrm or ghost bear to keep you company as you pray. There a manticore, flown from far Persia, to growl at tedious homilies. – John Betjeman, The English Alphabet , BBC Two, 1972 #Folklore
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The year limped on with a malign heart, never quite letting go of its fever. Even as it moved towards the inevitably of ice and long hours of darkness, the village sweated out visions. Evening chatter in both pubs was filled with augury. Ghosts gathered. - #CLNolan, The Growling of the Land, 1912
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The year limped on with a malign heart, never quite letting go of its fever. Even as it moved towards the inevitably of ice and long hours of darkness, the village sweated out visions. Evening chatter in both pubs was filled with augury. Ghosts gathered. - #CLNolan, The Growling of the Land, 1912
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I like properties where spirits have thrown their ectoplasmic weight around to the point the owners have fled. More so, I adore a property so phantom-plagued no estate agent can find a willing renter. Ghosts that defy the property market are worth studying. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It was only today that I learnt that Tufty from Tufty Club has a surname - Fluffytale.
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It was only today that I learnt that Tufty from Tufty Club has a surname - Fluffytale.
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For the witch, there are times when the river becomes a fluid scrying, a constant flow of omens. It's tutelary spirit whispers wisdom in her ears, its magics ripple across her psychic skin. She becomes one with its shaping song. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
For the witch, there are times when the river becomes a fluid scrying, a constant flow of omens. It's tutelary spirit whispers wisdom in her ears, its magics ripple across her psychic skin. She becomes one with its shaping song. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
Things the hyper-rich hate:
* Literacy
* People collectively getting their shit together
* A rising tide
* Literacy
* People collectively getting their shit together
* A rising tide
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Things the hyper-rich hate:
* Literacy
* People collectively getting their shit together
* A rising tide
* Literacy
* People collectively getting their shit together
* A rising tide
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Those talking openly about witchery often focus on the active aspects – possibly because they like telling people what to do. There's a neglect of passive enchantments, those parts of witchery where we listen, where we commune with the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Those talking openly about witchery often focus on the active aspects – possibly because they like telling people what to do. There's a neglect of passive enchantments, those parts of witchery where we listen, where we commune with the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
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Goodnight from Tod Loker, making questionable deals outside the back of Haldane Abattoir to get special bait for his Empress Eel hunting. Goodnight from Hugo Wester, furious that his penny-for-the-Guy seems to have woken and absconded from the garden shed. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Goodnight from Tod Loker, making questionable deals outside the back of Haldane Abattoir to get special bait for his Empress Eel hunting. Goodnight from Hugo Wester, furious that his penny-for-the-Guy seems to have woken and absconded from the garden shed. Goodnight from Hookland.