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An excellent overview of Krampus and similar figures, and earlier this year he published a follow-up book about Carnival figures that I really ought to get hold of too.
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
An excellent overview of Krampus and similar figures, and earlier this year he published a follow-up book about Carnival figures that I really ought to get hold of too.
I particularly like the Sabbath cards and the punch out player token sheets.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I particularly like the Sabbath cards and the punch out player token sheets.
#OwlishMonday 'December' by Quentin Blake, from Roald Dahl's 'My Year'
December 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#OwlishMonday 'December' by Quentin Blake, from Roald Dahl's 'My Year'
I went for a walk along the River Arun today and when I left the main path discovered what felt like a patch of Atlantic tropical rainforest like you'd be more likely to find on Dartmoor with all the epiphytic mosses and ferns.
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I went for a walk along the River Arun today and when I left the main path discovered what felt like a patch of Atlantic tropical rainforest like you'd be more likely to find on Dartmoor with all the epiphytic mosses and ferns.
"When the snows are lying deep,
When the field has gone to sleep,
When the blackthorn turns to white,
And frosty stars bejewel the night,
When summer streams are turned to ice,
A Snow Ball warms the heart of mice." 🐭❄️💃
Brambly Hedge: Winter Story by Jill Barklem (1980) #BookologyThursday
When the field has gone to sleep,
When the blackthorn turns to white,
And frosty stars bejewel the night,
When summer streams are turned to ice,
A Snow Ball warms the heart of mice." 🐭❄️💃
Brambly Hedge: Winter Story by Jill Barklem (1980) #BookologyThursday
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"When the snows are lying deep,
When the field has gone to sleep,
When the blackthorn turns to white,
And frosty stars bejewel the night,
When summer streams are turned to ice,
A Snow Ball warms the heart of mice." 🐭❄️💃
Brambly Hedge: Winter Story by Jill Barklem (1980) #BookologyThursday
When the field has gone to sleep,
When the blackthorn turns to white,
And frosty stars bejewel the night,
When summer streams are turned to ice,
A Snow Ball warms the heart of mice." 🐭❄️💃
Brambly Hedge: Winter Story by Jill Barklem (1980) #BookologyThursday
Very cool, I've been whale watching a few times with @orcaweb.bsky.social in the Bay of Biscay and seen lots of cetaceans but no basking sharks, but would love to.
When basking sharks were more common it might have been even more likely for them to swim together creating a many-humped sea serpent.
When basking sharks were more common it might have been even more likely for them to swim together creating a many-humped sea serpent.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Very cool, I've been whale watching a few times with @orcaweb.bsky.social in the Bay of Biscay and seen lots of cetaceans but no basking sharks, but would love to.
When basking sharks were more common it might have been even more likely for them to swim together creating a many-humped sea serpent.
When basking sharks were more common it might have been even more likely for them to swim together creating a many-humped sea serpent.
Interesting to see the two basking sharks swimming in aline together here with just their dorsal and tail fins above the water, you can see how someone might mistake them for a row of humps from a single sea serpent.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Interesting to see the two basking sharks swimming in aline together here with just their dorsal and tail fins above the water, you can see how someone might mistake them for a row of humps from a single sea serpent.
I haven't yet, I'll seek it out.
My favourite Bigfoot film is probably Suburban Sasquatch, but that's based on how hilariously rubbishly entertaining it is.
My favourite Bigfoot film is probably Suburban Sasquatch, but that's based on how hilariously rubbishly entertaining it is.
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I haven't yet, I'll seek it out.
My favourite Bigfoot film is probably Suburban Sasquatch, but that's based on how hilariously rubbishly entertaining it is.
My favourite Bigfoot film is probably Suburban Sasquatch, but that's based on how hilariously rubbishly entertaining it is.
A movie that takes place where you're from.
Struggling with Herefordshire too, this is all I can think of for movies (and I've still not seen it or read the original novel).
Struggling with Herefordshire too, this is all I can think of for movies (and I've still not seen it or read the original novel).
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
Struggling with Herefordshire too, this is all I can think of for movies (and I've still not seen it or read the original novel).
Struggling with Herefordshire too, this is all I can think of for movies (and I've still not seen it or read the original novel).
Just watched found footage horror film Willow Creek (2013), in which a couple head into the Californian woods near where the famous Patterson–Gimlin Sasquatch film was shot, and was impressed. Slowly and subtly builds the tension and lots of nods to 'real' Bigfoot lore 👣
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just watched found footage horror film Willow Creek (2013), in which a couple head into the Californian woods near where the famous Patterson–Gimlin Sasquatch film was shot, and was impressed. Slowly and subtly builds the tension and lots of nods to 'real' Bigfoot lore 👣
An enjoyable first episode, about a corpse stone on Dartmoor haunted by a ghost so vile and evil people have vomited at the sight of it!
Cool title card too. Think I'm going to enjoy seeing the rest of this series (new episode every Sunday).
Cool title card too. Think I'm going to enjoy seeing the rest of this series (new episode every Sunday).
November 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
An enjoyable first episode, about a corpse stone on Dartmoor haunted by a ghost so vile and evil people have vomited at the sight of it!
Cool title card too. Think I'm going to enjoy seeing the rest of this series (new episode every Sunday).
Cool title card too. Think I'm going to enjoy seeing the rest of this series (new episode every Sunday).
This is a great cover, one of my favourites, but it's by Antony Maitland for John Gordon's book 'The Giant Under the Snow'. It would work well for 'The Dark is Rising' too though.
November 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is a great cover, one of my favourites, but it's by Antony Maitland for John Gordon's book 'The Giant Under the Snow'. It would work well for 'The Dark is Rising' too though.
A short #ghost story for #PhantomsFriday from Kevin Crossley-Holland's 'Folk-Tales Of The British Isles' (1985)
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A short #ghost story for #PhantomsFriday from Kevin Crossley-Holland's 'Folk-Tales Of The British Isles' (1985)
[Best picture of Pan laughing I could find]
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
[Best picture of Pan laughing I could find]
Right on cue
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Right on cue
Such a great clip, I'd seen this photo of one of the dolls in books before and often wondered about the story behind it, so now I know!
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Such a great clip, I'd seen this photo of one of the dolls in books before and often wondered about the story behind it, so now I know!
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
Repost with an iconic fictional band. 🎸🥁🎸🎶
Unironically one of my top 10 favourite bands of all time.
youtu.be/uQE5iwaKS9o
Unironically one of my top 10 favourite bands of all time.
youtu.be/uQE5iwaKS9o
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Repost with an iconic fictional band. 🎸🥁🎸🎶
Unironically one of my top 10 favourite bands of all time.
youtu.be/uQE5iwaKS9o
Unironically one of my top 10 favourite bands of all time.
youtu.be/uQE5iwaKS9o
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A film you're seen more than 7 times with a gif (probably the film I've seen more times than any others)
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A film you're seen more than 7 times with a gif (probably the film I've seen more times than any others)
So many Edwardian ghost stories mention golfing that whenever I walk past a golf course it's now one of the first things to come to mind (alongside what a waste of space they are). Not sure if there's (m)any where they're the actual setting for the supernatural events to take place though.
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
So many Edwardian ghost stories mention golfing that whenever I walk past a golf course it's now one of the first things to come to mind (alongside what a waste of space they are). Not sure if there's (m)any where they're the actual setting for the supernatural events to take place though.
Sorry for the delay, just got round to watching this and it's a fascinating clip, thanks for the tag. I'd seen a photo of one of the dolls in books before and often wondered about the story behind it, so now I know!
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Sorry for the delay, just got round to watching this and it's a fascinating clip, thanks for the tag. I'd seen a photo of one of the dolls in books before and often wondered about the story behind it, so now I know!
I visited there a few years ago and it felt weird to be in the spot where such iconic events that spooked me so much growing up had occurred. The woods looked pretty much the same as for you but felt plenty atmospheric for me. And we may have glimpsed something among the tombstones watching us...
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I visited there a few years ago and it felt weird to be in the spot where such iconic events that spooked me so much growing up had occurred. The woods looked pretty much the same as for you but felt plenty atmospheric for me. And we may have glimpsed something among the tombstones watching us...
"A tawny owl is looking down from its high vantange point at the great fire lit for #GuyFawkes' day. Not often does it see such a fire as this, and is astonished at the red glow and the many sparks"
Art by C. F. Tunnicliffe, from 'What to Look for in Autumm' (1960) #BonfireNight
Art by C. F. Tunnicliffe, from 'What to Look for in Autumm' (1960) #BonfireNight
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"A tawny owl is looking down from its high vantange point at the great fire lit for #GuyFawkes' day. Not often does it see such a fire as this, and is astonished at the red glow and the many sparks"
Art by C. F. Tunnicliffe, from 'What to Look for in Autumm' (1960) #BonfireNight
Art by C. F. Tunnicliffe, from 'What to Look for in Autumm' (1960) #BonfireNight
#WyrdWednesday The wicked Lady Howard is cursed to ride nightly over Dartmoor from Okehampton Castle to Launceston Castle in a black coach driven by headless coachman & preceded by a fire-breathing black hound. When the coach stops at a house it's a sign that someone living there will soon die.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#WyrdWednesday The wicked Lady Howard is cursed to ride nightly over Dartmoor from Okehampton Castle to Launceston Castle in a black coach driven by headless coachman & preceded by a fire-breathing black hound. When the coach stops at a house it's a sign that someone living there will soon die.