This is my grandfather, Brigadier G. B. Vaughan-Hughes MC in 1919, aged 22/23, ‘somewhere in France,’ on Joey, his army mount. He bought Joey off the army and let him live a long and happy life in Wales. ‘Tommy,’ as grandpa was called, had entered the war early in 1915 as an 18-year-old 2nd Lt …1/

@claudiusme.bsky.social and I just went to look at festive nonsense and were childishly reduced to hysteria by this display.

We're listening to Surf's Up. #VinylProject My dad played me this through headphones to demonstrate 'stereo' when I was ... I dunno. Three? The album is EXACTLY the sound of my parents being 'up' after I'd gone to bed, probably before my brother was born in 1975.

Saw this in the chazza last week. I mean.

Saw someone with the same teeth as me at the coincidentist.

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

Sometimes you watch an old #TOTP and you know that it's almost certain that everyone who bought a particular record is dead now.

Aaaaand here's the UK version. Gone for less Tim Burton more a classic 1930s feel which I also love and fits the book really well as it's a whodunnit. I love them both.

If you want to start reading Solver from the start because you "need to catch up" on my comics, it is running from the start on GoComics from this week www.gocomics.com/bad-machiner...

This is WOW. It's better than the Oak Island Money Pit story by about 100%.

“..You look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you... for the last time will you sit down”

DAY 1 – ADVENT SALE 🎁✨ Today’s treasure is our Medieval Sprinkle Pot, a tool once used in medieval homes for watering seedlings or wetting floors before sweeping. It’s had a price drop! When they’re gone, they’re gone! Unwrap a piece of living history this season potted-history.co.uk/products/spr...

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

This morning I dreamt I lived in a large A-framed house made from wood and thatch with the front wall in cob to hold a window. The wall had cracked badly and @ladyliminal.bsky.social came to give me a quote to fix it. Nine grand!

This is one of the most delicious things you can make. You should make some.

Remember, Remember, The 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and… ARSE BISCUITS! Ever had a burning (or fizzling) desire to know what Guy Fawkes said in his moment of failure? Wonder no more. #PlaymobilInfestation #GuyFawkes #BonfireNight

Ooohh it's Irish PLR Day! Ten euros seventy! That's my biggest payout ever, so thank you very much to the libraries of the ROI for having copies of my books, and the Irish public for borrowing them! (I have previously spent my earnings on one (1) pastry but this would buy several!) #amwriting 📚

@kirstyhall.bsky.social 50% off bulbs on SR if you haven’t bought yours yet! www.sarahraven.com/sale

The Forgotten Realms logo pack that I’ve had available on the @dmsguild.com has been updated to include a new logo inspired by the 5E 2024 update to the Forgotten Realms setting logo—and if you bought my earlier 3.5E-inspired logo, it‘s FREE. site.dmsguild.com/product/2967...

I'm super stressed right now so here's a recent favourite landscape from a few months ago again - Dunvegan in Alberta, Canada. This aerial embroidery took forever but was worth it 💚 the higher up perspective is more intricate and slower to sew I've found, more fiddly! #art

#DailyMegalith #TombTuesday Inscribed rocks, Knockmany passage tomb, aka Anya's (or Annia's) Cove, nr #Augher #CountyTyrone #NorthernIreland (2024) You can't enter the tomb, this was taken through the roofbox, it's quite awkward. Also Knockmany Hill is quite steep in places. 🏺#Neolithic

Hey, UK FRIENDS, looks like GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD, is only 99p on Kindle and probably KOBO too so if DEEPLY WEIRD slowburn forest adventures are your thing jump on that. www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Wyrdwoo...

Hey remember when the 'thing of the day' was that person saying they could tell something was AI because of the phrase 'she let out a breath she didn't know she'd been holding'? I immediately put that in my WIP and I just read it while editing and it made me actually laugh. #amwriting #amediting

I've never seen an air fryer in any colour other than black so this thread is an eye-opener.

The passage grave at La Barbière in Crossac (Loire-Atlantique) has a 20-ton 4x3m capstone over the chamber still supported on 3 orthostats; the others have been robbed. Two slipped capstones and some supports still survive from the ruined passage. #TombTuesday.

I literally knew nothing about this guy (why would I, I do not live in NYC) but now I know PLENTY.

Hurrah!

#DailyMegalith #StandingStoneSunday It's the Goggleby Stone, #Shap #Cumbria (2014) Part of the Shap stone row or avenue, the stone can be seen from considerable distances, peeking over walls and looking surprisingly large on the horizon. 🏺

@matwinser.bsky.social OMG thought of you etc.

Today I'll be mostly decorating "en Barbotine' #AncientBluesky 🏺Soon to be heading for our online shop potted-history.co.uk.

I’ve planted my bulbs, please applaud. (Last year I didn’t get any in until Easter, unsurprisingly they did not flower.)

All still available at these crazy prices all Halloween weekend

I just backed A Decade in the Lives on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sgt... if you've ever appreciated any of Chris's work, and the Sgt Pepper montages that have become an annual treat in particular, maybe chuck him a tenner or pledge for the book itself.

Ollie: SIGH Me: Are you OK? Ollie: No. Me: Oh no, what is it? Ollie: Can't find me bag of kobolds. (He's running a little D&D game for a friend's kids later. Hopefully there are six unpainted kobolds in this box of random figures that's making him sigh even more.) #D&D #5e #roleplayinggames

Anyone on a LNER train today from Scotland to Newcastle - my mum took the wrong suitcase off the train. Her case is somewhere heading southbound. #Newcastle #LNER

3. Utter Horror!

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I've twice seen the phrase 'get out over my skis' in the last couple of days. I have never seen (or never noticed) it before. I get what it means, (be over confident?) but, US friends, why does it mean that? (@bcdreyer.social)

Happy Halloween 🎃 Here are 31 ghosts (and ghost adjacent things) from some of my haunted books 👻👻👻

As it's Hallowe'en, here's a 15 second video of me playing musical saw in the attic while dressed as a ghost

Best Hop-tu-Naa wishes! #ManxLoaghtan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop-tu-...

Winter Nocturne Isleworth: black crayon and body colour

They asked me if I had any specific criticisms of the Ghost Train. I said nothing leapt out at me.

Happy Halloween, 80s kids!

Photograph by Diane Arbus, 1971:

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

The day to show some love to these beautiful bats #Halloween Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton Sea and Air Mammals, 1972

30/10/25 - nocturn