Happy Halloween, all! In honour of the occasion, here is a fun little story I wrote a couple of years ago www.aeoliansquee.co.uk/stories/shir...

Forgot to dress up for the office Halloween shindig, but this has not prevented colleagues from asking about my Halloween outfit. #AGothIsAlwaysPrepared

Having started the week touring medieval churches in Suffolk, and ended it at the #WarningToTheCurious conference, I think it is fair to say that I am now as steeped in M.R. James as the mortal soul can bear.

Big thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social for another fabulous Romancing the Gothic event!

I have survived my first conference talk! And I have come away with thoughts on the nature of supernatural belief and how it connected with early modern trials, which I am writing down in rough form while they are fresh in my mind. 1/13

Surely few better ways to start a day than a tea and a bacon roll, an impromptu harp and guitar recital, and randomly finding a wee knitted guy to take home all in the same half hour. #FolkEast is the greatest!

Come for my FIRST EVER conference paper, where I will be talking about M.R. James's 'Martin's Close' and supernatural justice in early modern England.
It's going to be a brilliant weekend, and even better, it's recorded, so if you can't make the times, you don't miss a thing!

The Purple-Gold Jumping Spider has evolved to be perfectly camouflaged in a tin of Quality Street.

(Photo by portioid, via Wikimedia Commons: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ir...)

People like to diss the internet, but how else can you spend an evening drawing baby sloths like one of your French girls on live stream from Costa Rica?

I appear to have made my seasonal transition from 'I won't run the AC, it is like trying to work in a submarine engine room', to 'you will have to pry this AC unit from my pleasantly cool, dead hands'