WTF since 1620. Headstone outside Southwell Minster.

As a child going to school do you remember feeling excited on a Friday afternoon, and dread/foreboding on a Sunday evening/Monday morning? 1️⃣ Yes, both 2️⃣ No, neither 📊 Show results

Now that we've done 12th night, I can start the year properly. My favourite part is at the Crossbones cemetery, wassailing the goose (look up the geese of Winchester). I got quite emotional.

Just found out Judith Kerr (Mog books) was married to Nigel Kneale (Quatermass etc). When can I have this crossover series please?

The Giants grave, St Mary's Church, Ripple. Here lies Robert Reeves, who died in 1626 at the age of 56. He was 7ft 4 and died of 'over exertion' while engaged in a mowing contest for a wager "As you passe be, behold my length l, but never glory in your strength"

The sweet peas in my garden started growing in December. 😞 For anyone who still doubts the climate is changing (i suspect here I am preaching to the converted), go spend some time in nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yes. And so should anyone seeing this! #Stonehenge in any material, any size. Tag us!

May I ask a favour? If you've bought or gifted either Household Lore or Everyday Folklore this Christmas and you've liked what you've read, please pop a lovely review up where you buy your books from. I speak for all authors when I say it really helps! Thank you! 💜💚📚 #Booksky #Writerslife

Bought these two photos at an auction several years ago, from the archive of an unnamed & I believe, deceased commercial photographer which was being broken up & sold. Identities of the photographer & the photographed are currently unknown to me

Idris the dragon is my fav: he equally scares kids & dogs - it's hot in that suit, no wonder he has a few ales

Put a clock in vision. So you know to behave. First. Then chat with a friend. Every time you fuck up, stumble, get a fact wrong, forget something or lose your thread, or get distracted and off topic… CLAP YOUR HANDS.

Actually. Have it for free. Here’s how to make an easy to edit chat podcast. It’s basically punch-and-roll recording, like an audiobook. This:

Think about this a lot. Editing takes time. Costs money. Most podcasts don’t earn any money. So most podcasts don’t edit. And so leaving all the irrelevant stuff in has been normalised in a way it never has been on radio, which is funded and for that money expects concision in return.

Krishna’s Butter Ball, Mahabalipuram, c.1900. www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.68

The wolf supermoon apparently!

A few photos from NYE of the absolutely mesmerising sculptures by Kate MccGuire. On at Lakeside Arts in Nottingham, closing this weekend.

Orange moon this morning.

A frosty view of my local Bronze Age standing stones - 'Cow & Calf' - at Pendam in the Pumlumon foothills, Cymru/Wales on New Year's Eve 📷 My own

The weeping ghost of a slightly built young woman used to be seen regularly in Church Lane, Lighthorne. She was thought to be the widow of a soldier killed at the battle of Edgehill. A folklore collector in the 1920s was told that she “had been seen by many”. #PhantomsFriday

Here are a couple of photos I've taken that prove GHOSTS ARE REAL.

Listening to the latest ep of Uncanny and imagining a podcast of ghosts responding. 'Well that never happened?! I saw it all. I'm offended he'd suggest I do that.' 'Ahaha he got you there Jeff. Didn't think you'd get caught.' Plus the sceptic ghost that refuses to acknowledge their own existence.

My Terry Pratchett unwrapped thread. Next year starts with the excellent Witches Abroad. #Discworld #fantasy #booksky 📚💙🪐📚

Higher Drift #StandingStoneSunday

This week’s offering for #StandingStoneSunday is from Lacra C stone circle. #Cumbria

I like that mistletoe increases the odds of being kissed. More plants should offer temporary environmental status. Brawling under lingonberries. The soft yearning of a love that dare not speak its name beneath the nightshade.

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

Back to peddling my weird suggestions, in case this festive timeless void hasn't been strange enough for you. A gift of sorts - a folklore/folk horror starter pack. Go find yourself some winter ghost stories, standing stones, possibly even a wassail.

Still flogging the dead horse of my folklore / folk horror starter pack. If you can't flog a dead horse this time of year, when can you?! UK & Ireland suggestions welcome. Who am I missing?

I think gloomy photos are my forte. Fog is definitely my main motivation to go for a walk with a camera. Here are some photos from 2023.

Another gloomy fog photo series from January 2025. If you are into this please wish for much more fog yet to come for me this winter. 🤞🏽

A foggy stroll over the solstice last week. If you like fog, gloom, and old graveyards you might want to stick around.

For those who weren't convinced by the 'official' ghost story for Christmas from the BBC, here's an alternative. (And pointedly so.)

It’s the last #StandingStoneSunday of the year … thinking back to some fantastic sites I saw for the first time in 2025. This is one of the very best - beautiful Uragh on the Beara peninsula, Co Kerry.

The strange anti-time of Twixtmas is in full force. Days are fragmented. The past is the present. The waning year has collapsed before the finish line

A journalist friend who went round to her house in the late 80s confirmed she was a lifelong spiritualist, and indeed expected Johnny to dine with her every evening, even though he was long dead. He saw the table laid for two.

A thread of the best grotesque corbels / gargoyles / other stonework features I’ve seen over Christmas? Why not First up, this weird little fella at All Saints in Beeby, Leicestershire…

On December 27th, walking with a sharper care is common. For the Boxing Day Bounds have been beaten. We all know where our borders are and what lies across them. We feel their threshold spirits as a dream-thrum, as insistent itch of warning when approaching them. – #CLNolan

I didn't even notice that this is technically still a colour photo. I thought I'd edited into black and white. No need apparently! Good old colour draining fog.

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water getting desperate in his methods...

Goodnight from Sue Bedwell, regretting taking the kids to The Babes In The Wood panto at The Mercury Theatre as its given them Master of Moss nightmares. Goodnight from Jo Hargate, gone to bed early to avoid the Boxing Day party getting to the séance stage. Goodnight from Hookland.

With it being Wren Day, or Lá an Dreoilín in Ireland, I've been doodling in front of the telly and professionally defaced another copy of Tales Accursed with a costumed Wren Boy, which I've made available in the shoppe... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

It’s mainly around Beeley in Derbyshire; the pub, Hob Hursts House (although the Church is actually in Castleton)

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Winter Sale! Inspired by movies such as The Wicker Man & the works of M.R. James, with a little pinch of Twin Peaks and Lovecraft - our folk horror adventure is the perfect play for Christmas! store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

As a total non-gamer I loved this (to the extent that I went on a field trip to find the real world locations it was based on!)