Many happy returns!

Thanks for the tips. I’ve visited once before about 10 years ago, but the weather was appalling, so I saw barely anything other than Torshavn. Hopefully I will be luckier this time. Sadly I don’t speak either language, but apparently Jacobsens Bókahandil has plenty of available texts in English.

It’s a great, sinister read David. Cornwall + Folklore are happy bedfellows! I’m glad to have discovered your work.

Recently finished Withered Hill, which was pretty much unputdownable. Halfway through Scuttler’s Cove and I may well never eat an apple again!

Great selection, I would have to go for: Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, Leontyne Price and Kirsten Flagstad

#joansutherland #birgitnilsson #leontyneprice #jonnymains #tomcox #cedricgrolet #bengazur

I’m sure I will :)

Sounds like my near ideal Christmas present of a haunted recipe book! Will absolutely be purchasing a copy.

It’s a big gap, so perhaps it’s a couple of ingredients…? Being a food historian, can’t be that far away from being a hybrid of Susie Dent and Miss Marple!

This sounds rather tempting and very much akin to an Eccles cake! The inclusion of caraway seeds will give it a hint of liquorice.

A paste for shivery cakes sounds rather intriguing! Are we talking a wobbly Battenberg?!

I‘ve just finished reading Volk‘s The Good Unknown, which I would highly recommend. He‘s an absolute master of the genre, a 21st century M.R. James! The Waiting Room and Lost Loved Ones are especially good.