Pighill
@pighill.bsky.social
Archaeological illustrator & heritage graphic designer, Peter Lorimer.
Based in Lincolnshire. works everywhere.
Based in Lincolnshire. works everywhere.
Stop!!!
You already had me at 'bookshop'.
You already had me at 'bookshop'.
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Stop!!!
You already had me at 'bookshop'.
You already had me at 'bookshop'.
I think that I have identified the reason we don't seem to have many windfall pears this year...
October 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I think that I have identified the reason we don't seem to have many windfall pears this year...
A couple of weeks ago, I had a brief convo with @sophiemhistory.bsky.social about the various dangers the allied air campaign of WWII brought to the civilians of Lincolnshire. Well as chance would have it, this contemporary sketch showing a tiny cottage being buzzed by a bomber departing an (cont)
October 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A couple of weeks ago, I had a brief convo with @sophiemhistory.bsky.social about the various dangers the allied air campaign of WWII brought to the civilians of Lincolnshire. Well as chance would have it, this contemporary sketch showing a tiny cottage being buzzed by a bomber departing an (cont)
Wait... what the hell is going to happen on Wednesday?
September 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Wait... what the hell is going to happen on Wednesday?
Have you visited Jon?
While the fort field is nothing much to see (sadly a very heavily ploughed field) the ditch of the Roman town defences at least, on one corner, is pretty extant.
However, sadly filling up with rusting farm vehicles on my last visit.
While the fort field is nothing much to see (sadly a very heavily ploughed field) the ditch of the Roman town defences at least, on one corner, is pretty extant.
However, sadly filling up with rusting farm vehicles on my last visit.
September 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Have you visited Jon?
While the fort field is nothing much to see (sadly a very heavily ploughed field) the ditch of the Roman town defences at least, on one corner, is pretty extant.
However, sadly filling up with rusting farm vehicles on my last visit.
While the fort field is nothing much to see (sadly a very heavily ploughed field) the ditch of the Roman town defences at least, on one corner, is pretty extant.
However, sadly filling up with rusting farm vehicles on my last visit.
Since seeing the photos of him riding in the gold coach. I've had constant earworm of Joe Strummer warning us back in 1977, that should a certain dictator of Austrian birth fly into London.
"They'd send a limousine anyway..."
"They'd send a limousine anyway..."
September 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Since seeing the photos of him riding in the gold coach. I've had constant earworm of Joe Strummer warning us back in 1977, that should a certain dictator of Austrian birth fly into London.
"They'd send a limousine anyway..."
"They'd send a limousine anyway..."
I want to believe this is because of some just re-discovered unrevoked law relating to the 18th C Spice trade.
But I didn't follow it, so I'll never know.
Also... Local county level journalism is really dead and buried now isn't it? It's all click-bait headlines or stuff nicked off Facebook.
But I didn't follow it, so I'll never know.
Also... Local county level journalism is really dead and buried now isn't it? It's all click-bait headlines or stuff nicked off Facebook.
September 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I want to believe this is because of some just re-discovered unrevoked law relating to the 18th C Spice trade.
But I didn't follow it, so I'll never know.
Also... Local county level journalism is really dead and buried now isn't it? It's all click-bait headlines or stuff nicked off Facebook.
But I didn't follow it, so I'll never know.
Also... Local county level journalism is really dead and buried now isn't it? It's all click-bait headlines or stuff nicked off Facebook.
I was just checking that myself, the annual is a credit free zone, not either naming writers or illustrators. But a bit of digging reveals the work was by Glenn Rix, who it seems did a fair bit of trade in TV Annual work. And seems to have been on a repeat commission for BBC publications.
September 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I was just checking that myself, the annual is a credit free zone, not either naming writers or illustrators. But a bit of digging reveals the work was by Glenn Rix, who it seems did a fair bit of trade in TV Annual work. And seems to have been on a repeat commission for BBC publications.
Even incidental illustrated panels accompanying the stories all carry a strong Wicker Man vibe. I bit of research shows this annual was produced at a point when the BBC were considering a spin-off show called K.9 and Company, but it never made it past a pilot episode.
September 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Even incidental illustrated panels accompanying the stories all carry a strong Wicker Man vibe. I bit of research shows this annual was produced at a point when the BBC were considering a spin-off show called K.9 and Company, but it never made it past a pilot episode.
Lots of robed murderous cultists, some spooky monks, and plenty of allusions to magic, and power-imbued stones!
September 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Lots of robed murderous cultists, some spooky monks, and plenty of allusions to magic, and power-imbued stones!
Given that the stories are based around the ex Dr Who companion Sarah Jane Smith, who is very much earth-bound, the stories have a much more terrestrial feel, but what's odd is they throw off Sci Fi almost entirely and go for a strange mix of supernatural horror.
September 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Given that the stories are based around the ex Dr Who companion Sarah Jane Smith, who is very much earth-bound, the stories have a much more terrestrial feel, but what's odd is they throw off Sci Fi almost entirely and go for a strange mix of supernatural horror.
If you're already familiar with TV tie-in annuals of the 70s and early 80s, it's pretty much standard fare, with some photos and short stories, illustrated with likenesses of the main characters all getting into various scrapes. But the themes of the stories are wild, and very Folk Horror
September 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If you're already familiar with TV tie-in annuals of the 70s and early 80s, it's pretty much standard fare, with some photos and short stories, illustrated with likenesses of the main characters all getting into various scrapes. But the themes of the stories are wild, and very Folk Horror
At the bottom of a box of books I recently received, was a copy of a 1983 BBC TV K.9 annual. Now I'm no hardened Dr Who fan, but out of interest I gave it a quick flick though, and my word, it's odd?
September 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
At the bottom of a box of books I recently received, was a copy of a 1983 BBC TV K.9 annual. Now I'm no hardened Dr Who fan, but out of interest I gave it a quick flick though, and my word, it's odd?
The Dada-esque aesthetic that so often manifests in village Scarecrow festivals.
Here's one from our village this year.
Here's one from our village this year.
September 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The Dada-esque aesthetic that so often manifests in village Scarecrow festivals.
Here's one from our village this year.
Here's one from our village this year.
While I do NOT wish a season of near-sequential storms upon us, that fact they gave us that last name, makes me yearn for us to reach it, just to hear people state...
"neighbour lost their trampoline to Wubbo"
"Wubbo has blown all the bins into the road"
"Wubbo forces airports to close"
"neighbour lost their trampoline to Wubbo"
"Wubbo has blown all the bins into the road"
"Wubbo forces airports to close"
September 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
While I do NOT wish a season of near-sequential storms upon us, that fact they gave us that last name, makes me yearn for us to reach it, just to hear people state...
"neighbour lost their trampoline to Wubbo"
"Wubbo has blown all the bins into the road"
"Wubbo forces airports to close"
"neighbour lost their trampoline to Wubbo"
"Wubbo has blown all the bins into the road"
"Wubbo forces airports to close"
There is quite an impressive Circumzenithal arc, with added sundogs and other solar optical effects visible from our spot in Lincolnshire right now!
August 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
There is quite an impressive Circumzenithal arc, with added sundogs and other solar optical effects visible from our spot in Lincolnshire right now!
I just love how meat-&-potatoes simple this one is.
✓ Cold blooded killer hero
✓ Exotic dancer sidekick
✓ Lors of stuff explodes
Done.
✓ Cold blooded killer hero
✓ Exotic dancer sidekick
✓ Lors of stuff explodes
Done.
August 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I just love how meat-&-potatoes simple this one is.
✓ Cold blooded killer hero
✓ Exotic dancer sidekick
✓ Lors of stuff explodes
Done.
✓ Cold blooded killer hero
✓ Exotic dancer sidekick
✓ Lors of stuff explodes
Done.
A couple of them you think were parodies of 'crazy' 60s fiction!
Case in point...
(Bonus creepy author portrait)
Case in point...
(Bonus creepy author portrait)
August 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A couple of them you think were parodies of 'crazy' 60s fiction!
Case in point...
(Bonus creepy author portrait)
Case in point...
(Bonus creepy author portrait)
Q: Do old 60s pulp paperbacks have any value? Or are they collected?
Just saved a stack of them that were headed for the skip. And there are some "gems" of titles!
Just saved a stack of them that were headed for the skip. And there are some "gems" of titles!
August 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Q: Do old 60s pulp paperbacks have any value? Or are they collected?
Just saved a stack of them that were headed for the skip. And there are some "gems" of titles!
Just saved a stack of them that were headed for the skip. And there are some "gems" of titles!
Someone's had a go at this (Caffeinated Honey).
Despite being an enthusiastic caffeine fan, I can't say I've been tempted to try it. I prefer my honey the way the bees intended.
Despite being an enthusiastic caffeine fan, I can't say I've been tempted to try it. I prefer my honey the way the bees intended.
August 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Someone's had a go at this (Caffeinated Honey).
Despite being an enthusiastic caffeine fan, I can't say I've been tempted to try it. I prefer my honey the way the bees intended.
Despite being an enthusiastic caffeine fan, I can't say I've been tempted to try it. I prefer my honey the way the bees intended.
I usually struggle to photograph butterflies (they invariably flutter off the moment I point a lens at one), but this Speckled Wood obligingly sat quite still long enough to record.
August 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I usually struggle to photograph butterflies (they invariably flutter off the moment I point a lens at one), but this Speckled Wood obligingly sat quite still long enough to record.
Can someone nearby, give America a quick wellness check and make sure they are OK over there?
August 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Can someone nearby, give America a quick wellness check and make sure they are OK over there?
The fact this has actually happened at least once in real world (citizen) science, makes me giggle.
August 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The fact this has actually happened at least once in real world (citizen) science, makes me giggle.