Absolutely adored #InsideNo9 Stage/Fright yesterday. Funny, scary and brilliant stage craft.

FACT: The Jools Holland New Year Boglewogles were all recorded in a batch in 1996. They just guessed what was going to happen and used makeup to make the guests age realistically. Jools himself is one of the fair folk, and reportedly sleeps in a mirror.

Fog makes even the familiar wood edge an unsure place. Pareidolia lensing is imposed. New forms and faces emerge. Internal prayers are offered that none of the looming shapes are the Hoarse Hag.

Building Shitty Gingerbread House Just Making Depression Worse
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One at Ryde Academy, @wihtlore.uk

@loremen.bsky.social please tell me the wizard hat anecdote is true!

The dunes near Hoare Point are known as ‘the Dooms’. Some say the name's given for its sand-swallowed village, its sunken oratory. Others say it's for the plague dead burials the wind sometimes bullies into revelation. Me, I reckon it's down to the Hoarse Hag wandering it. – Mark Lester #VOH

Glass is a ghost-holder. Its fused silica, its sodium carbonate entangles past and future. An amorphous prison for shades out of time. Of all gateways that give glimpse onto the enfolding world of spirits, none is more common in our homes nor more particular in its peculiarities. – #CJosiffe

The Stately Ghosts of England is a somewhat forgotten book written by Diana Norman, who was married to the BBC film man Barry Norman who once included Todd Haynes Safe in his Turkeys of the year, so I'm much more team Diana.

I love this short documentary beyond reason

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Every day not spent reading Edgar Allan Poe by the fire in a seaside cottage during a raging thunderstorm is a day wasted.

What is Hookland? #Hookland

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

90s boy band vibes

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

I'm Tash. I'm 45 and a manager in a large UK charity. I like spooky stuff, swearing, running, music, podcasts, going to the theatre with @katelittwit.bsky.social and laughing until I feel sick.