This week’s listening: “Love Under Will”- Fields of the Nephilim. As it’s #Gothtober I'm immersed in the Gothic/dark song end of my music collection. Also, this has to be my favourite Nephilim song #FieldsoftheNephilim #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMuA...

In the Rock Lounge of Nottingham pub The Trip to Jerusalem hangs a model galleon covered by what looks like 50 years of dust & cobwebs, which no one dares clean. The last three people who have cleaned it are said to have died mysterious & unexpected deaths within months of doing so. #PhantomsFriday

Met this giant redwood tree at Compton Verney today #trees

Ladybirds basking in late September sunshine on the door of the church of St Mary, Stoneleigh. More ladybirds that day than I've seen in ages. They kept landing on me so I had to keep putting phone down to gently repatriate the critters 🙂

Lots of mellow fruitfulness going down at Stoneleigh community orchard today #Autumn

A #FoxOfTheDay in silhouette , taken by @karengwizza - top work !

This week’s listening: “Inside the Horse”- Blyth Power. Apposite as it seems a bunch of right wing, authoritarian tech bros have snuck in disguised as the Labour Party #music #BlythPower www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObRX...

Who in the Labourer comms team thought it a good idea to announce something as controversial and unpopular as digital ID cards on the eve of the party conference?

One of those "need to escape into woodland and stare at a sylvan stream" days. And I did.

A weekend mooch to the lovely medieval church of St Giles at Chesterton. One of a small number in the county not mucked about by the Victorians

The wheel of the year turns once more. Time to embrace that Autumn energy 🍁🎃🍂🍄 #AutumnEquinox

Not sure what this vibrant succulent is but saw it growing on 14th century stone walls in Warwickshire this weekend #WildFlowerHour

Prairie Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus) shot on the medians of Columbus Boulevard near the Pier 70 complex at least six years ago. There used to be a persistent crackweed population there but I think that's been sprayed out of existence. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #UrbanWildflowers

Some rooms in the wonderful 'Night at the Museum' house at last week's Miniatura dolls house and miniatures show #dollshouses

Entrance to a cave where an extremely grumpy monster which enjoys draining humans of their blood and entrails then wrapping itself in their skin lives? Or Inside a felled tree trunk in local park?

This week’s listening: “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”- Sylvester. Catching up with BBC4’s Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution. Fascinating to see how it grew up in the social context of the Civil Rights, women’s rights and LGBT rights movements. #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3vt...

#WyrdWednesday 'The Entomologist's Dream' by Edmund Dulac (1909) depicts a man looking on as a kaleidoscope of resurrected butterflies escape the pins holding them in their specimen boxes and fill the air once again 🦋

Anansi, the Great Trickster spider, was determined to collect all of the sky god Nyame’s stories. And so it was that Anansi, weaver of stories, master of tales, came into his own. #WyrdWednesday 🔗👇 mythcrafts.com/2019/01/31/a...

A mooch along the churchyard path leading to the medieval church of St Nicholas, Kenilworth

First time I've seen the remains of a temple to Mithras on a model rail layout. The Brocolitia layout at at the International N Gauge Show #TINGS #modelrailways

More pics from the International N Gauge model railway show #trains #TINGS

An afternoon mooch to The International N Gauge model railway show. L: borrowed a British Rail badge to be suitably attired R: first layout I've seen in a cheese box! #TINGS #railways

This week’s listening: “Your Gold Dress”- Dukes of Stratosphear. Three of my favourites are in the final of the Great British Sewing Bee. 🙂👗🪡 #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpKu...

The Ghost Bear of Hookland is not only the county's emblem, it is the division's chief haunter. Whether as skeletal shade or full-furred phantom, it ghostly roaming territory is so wide, one often wonders how a solitary ursine spectre has the energy for all its manifestations. #FolkyFriday

Whoever recently sent me a DM, I'm not ignoring you. It's just I can't access them at the moment. ❔🤔❔

Shamantin is a spirit of the West African forests. Unlike her husband Sasabonsam, she doesn’t kill people but uses her long legs to catch those who wander beneath her cotton tree abode to teach them where water sources are, which plants are edible & which have medicinal properties. #FolkyFriday 🧵

Given Morgan McSweeney's involvement in "Petey's" appointment, isn't it time the Labour Party ditched Blue Labour/ the New Labour revival?

Appliqued and embroidered altar cover depicting the seasons - St George's church, Brailes, Warwickshire

Starting to see mince pies and other Christmas related items in the shops. Seems a tad early but then again even Nature has got in on the act decorating trees with a multitude of baubles

Whoever recently sent me a DM, I'm not ignoring you. It's just I can't access them at the moment. ❔🤔❔

In youth, it amused me To play devil's advocate I'd argue any side In search of the zinger That silenced my adversary Just to be #arbitrary Now that I'm older It's peace that I'm after Old arguments aside Not worth the breath Needed to make them #vss365

This week’s listening: “The Atheist’s Burden”- Disco Inferno. There’s a gorgeous fragility to this that reflects the fragility of summer fading into Autumn. #DiscoInferno #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zun...

This week’s listening: “The Atheist’s Burden”- Disco Inferno. There’s a gorgeous fragility to this that reflects the fragility of summer fading into Autumn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zun...

First significant rain here in ages. Have unleashed the mini ark..

Loved the shadows made by tall trees on the walls of medieval malt barn which houses the Catholic Chapel of St Peter and St Paul on its upper floor. Location: Brailes, Warwickshire

Random Owl of the Month From Alf Leon's 'A Secretary Hand ABC Book'. I volunteer on a project transcribing 16th and 17th C churchwardens' accounts wot are written in secretary hand.

This week’s listening: “Requiem”- Killing Joke. One for the dying days of summer…. #Music #KilingJoke www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMdQ...

Lake in the park near me now resembling mud fkats after months of very little rain

A Bank Holiday weekend of church-bothering: 3 churches and 1 chapel. Here's a carved head from doorway of St Michael's church, Weston under Wetherley, Warwickshire. #churches

A floral tribute from nature - hedgerow cranesbill growing from a tombstone in Stoneleigh churchyard, Warwickshire #WildFlowerHour

This week’s listening: “Renaissance Fair”- The Byrds. Title always conjures up images of Leonardo da Vinci running the dodgems and the Medicis selling candy floss #music #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz6v...

View from the choir stalls in St John Baptist church, Berkswell (don't panic, I wasn't singing ! 🙂) #churches #Warwickshire

Some rosy hues for this week's #WildFlowerHour Willowherb against the sandstone of an old Warwickshire church

This week’s listening: “Destination Venus”- The Rezillos. One upside of not being able to sleep on humid nights is getting to see the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter. Snoozed thru the Perseids tho 🙄 #music #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtwo...

The Rollin’ Calf, one of the most frightening duppies in Jamaican folklore, was reputed to be afraid of the moon. However, if the moon is directly above you then you are still vulnerable to a burst of Calf’s toxic breath. #FolkyFriday

A mooch out to count butterflies for the Big Butterfly Count. Not many of the fluttery critters but lots of bird's foot trefoil #wildflowerhour

This week’s listening: “Itchykoo Park”- The Small Faces. Only found out much later that the park where I used to live as a child in Cov was reknown for magic mushrooms. #music (No park name, no seeing green & red wombats emerging from wardrobes at 3 am) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fayL...

A nonchalant Millie for #InternationalCatDay

An afternoon mooch to Baddesley Clinton moated manor to restore my somewhat frazzled equilibrium from Eeyore to Tigger.

The tomb of Sir Fulke Greville in St Mary's Church, Warwick. Always makes me think of Count Magnus's tomb in the MR James story but minus the chains keeping occupant inside #churches #gothic