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jenny marie
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the strange and the sad. 📍 west yorkshire 🧶🍂❄️🌈🍉
https://www.ravelry.com/people/thevegancrocheter
If ever there was a haunted object.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rare Victorian mannequin to be auctioned in Banbury
The doll, known to the family as Gladys, belonged to renowned sculptor James Butler MBE.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This looks super and I’ve booked my tickets 🎟️ 👽
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/tod...
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I'm reading Intermezzo for Work Book Club. I'm nearly halfway through and, so far, not one unquiet spirit/séance/uncanny happening. Disappointing.
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This was the perfect venue for the Tod Book Fest Northern Weird event last night 📚🕯️
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A happy delivery for cosy November nights from @helleborezine.bsky.social 🕯️
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The new Frankenstein is delicious. GDT is an alchemist who has taken the most wonderful liberties with the brilliant novel I love to hate.
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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It's been a very quiet week.
As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season.

So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture.

Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A thread of dreamy books I couldn’t buy today because of rent. (I did buy some but not these.)
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Thank you (or not) Roald Dahl 🥲
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED - ROYAL JELLY (1980): All-time horror classic in which Susan George and Timothy West play Albert and Mabel, a couple whose baby daughter is undernourished and sickly. Beekeeper Albert uses his apiary skills to come up with an, erm, unusual feeding solution...
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The nanofibres/oil tanker scene in 3 Body Problem is like *that* Ghost Ship scene to the power of at least 12.
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Obviously we don't approve of security guards being threatened, but you've got to admire a good old fashioned daylight heist. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Everything we know about the Louvre jewellery heist
The world-famous museum in Paris is still closed on Monday after a masked gang raided one of its galleries.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“Do I have hormonal osteoporosis, or are my bones breaking in solidarity with my spirit?”

🥲

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-...
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Just some recent things. Halloween nails, autumn, crochet things (including the genesis of my hideous Christmas jumper).
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I was explaining (or trying to explain) Ghostwatch to all the young ‘uns at work this week so I might have a nostalgic viewing tonight. Still haven’t forgiven my brother for not letting me sit in his room on 31 October 1992.
October 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Co-signing this recommendation, especially if you are a Brit Of A Certain Age and read all the spooky books and watched Hammer House of Horror when you were too young.
As we're WELL into spooky season now, might I take this chance to once again recommend my 1970s-set ghost story The Apparition Phase, which first came out in 2020. As I always say, if you like ghosts, chances are you'll like this. Whoooo! etc.
www.waterstones.com/book/the-app...
The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean | Waterstones
Buy The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Ancestry has massively updated its DNA data, and I am no longer as northern as I was 🥲

(They explain every time that of course our DNA doesn't change, but their data change and apparently this gives a clearer/more accurate picture.)
October 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Good heavens, I didn't know this fabulous video is on YouTube. It's lovely to see my friends and neighbours Brian and Wendy Froud when they were still so very young! I've spent the last year helping them with a new book (we're not allowed to reveal the subject yet), which will be out in autumn 2026.
"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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The email has found me running through the reeking crypt, pursued by a gurgle of rotten laughter. I *must* reach the coffin before the sand runs out. I am the last of the team-building exercise still alive, Dom from HR has just been lost to the mechanical spider with eight black garnets for eyes.
October 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I just caught up with this episode of Casefile and whilst it's a fascinating case, what's more fascinating is that the guy in this photo was no older than 19 when this picture was taken. dailyinterlake.com/news/2005/fe...
Pilot holds answers in woman's death
Aged and worn documents in a well-handled arrest-warrant jacket in Flathead County give the outline of one of the most intriguing local unsolved cases of the last century.
dailyinterlake.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
It’s an orange #CrochetAway theme and I dug these out from the archive. One of them is the first cardigan I ever made. It’s a bit wonky but I’m fond of it 😊
October 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Eeeeeee. Really looking forward to getting under a blanket with a hot choccers and watching this tonight.
Very much looking forward to chatting to one of my absolute favourite authors, @michellepaver.bsky.social
tonight for the @hayfestival.bsky.social book club,
about her brilliant ghost story 'Dark Matter' to coincide with the publishing of a new 15th anniversary edition of the book!

Join us online!
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I love Mary Shelley so much, but Frankenstein is an infuriating slog of a read and Victor is an insufferable arse who should have been despatched immediately by the monster in his University accommodation.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Phew, just had some reassuring results from scary medical tests. A benign diagnosis that can be treated. I think I deserve some yarn 👉🏻👈🏻
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Lunch was delicious and the talk was inspiring and fun. Off home to recover now 😴
October 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Bloods taken, yarn acquired, en route to a big fat delicious vegan lunch.
Today’s plans are: blood/medical tests (👎🏻), yarn shop (👍🏻), fun lunch (🍔), and lit festival talk (📚). A net positive set of plans.
October 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM