This time next week 02/03/26 Weird in the Wade returns with a bumper episode celebrating international women’s day. I’ll be exploring with special guests, women who haunt, are haunted and investigate the paranormal. Including colourful lady ghosts and fairy / folk tales.

The thing with choosing a horror movie to watch is that sometimes the really good ones have shitty trailers and the bad ones have really good trailers (Think maybe ones that have character depth and actual plot maybe don’t produce the flashy moments needed for trailers)

Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die fantastic movie, very funny but also very accurate in so many ways. Joins MI8 as an excellent ‘AI is fucking dangerous!’ movie

The black cat who roams around the rooftops of our little group of buildings and sometimes comes to visit me at night came in again last night. I say visit me - I said hello as it came in, it looked me and ignored me as it always does and just roamed the flat. It’s my flat it likes, I’m incidental

I sometimes watch unboxing videos for things I want to buy - I want to see what’s in the box. But they’ve started doing them like those ASMR where they tap their fingernails along the box and I cannot stand the sound of fingernails tapping. Makes my skin crawl. I can’t be the only one, am I?

Fascinating new ghost video from Don’t Scare Claire about the Bakerloo Line - transport ghost always capture my attention for some reason

Historians possibly salivating at the thought of all those papers the police search might uncover…. (Future historians having to cite the police search of Windsor Royal Lodge as a source in future will be fun)

I’m cancelling all my plans to watch the news tonight while playing Plague. (And also because Don’t Scare Claire has a new episode about Underground Ghosts out. But also the news)

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So what seems to have happened is that they managed to keep this secret from the royals, the PM and all the media and I have to say that’s an incredible feat of secret keeping. Not only to not leak at all, but also for no one to blab to the King or PM

You know M.R. James would have had a field day with this.

I’m pretty sure - I think - that this may be the biggest shock to the monarchy since the Abdication

He’s in a cell. He’s actually in a police cell. He’s is sitting in a tiny concrete room that smells of piss.

I see it’s another day I’ll be checking the news every ten minutes… (Imagine being in the cells in the local police station and you turn to see who’ve they’ve just bought in….)

This is all beginning to feel quite - Shakespearean. As in his history plays. All those turbulent royal families turning on each other. I always enjoy those plays

Does anyone remember a ghost story - or rather, a time slip story I think - that may have been in one of those ‘World’s Greatest’ books about two women who took a holiday in Dieppe after WW2 and were woken by the sounds of battle and listened to what sounded like the failed WW2 Dieppe invasion?

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Recently started playing Pokémon Go (mixture of needing something less complex but also reminiscent of binge watching Pokémon when younger) and every time I open the game it reminds me not to play it while driving and - and - people do that?

What do you mean ‘a couple of weeks’ #CallTheMidwife

It’s finally lupus! (Sorry, been watching a lot of House) #CallTheMidwife

I saw Crime 101 yesterday and LA is very much a character in that movie, especially LA by the beach and every time I saw them standing by the sea in the warm sunshine I ached with envy. Warmth - sunshine - summer - not having to wear a jumper or coat - not shivering - cold drinks…

I have to go the library and then buy some bread but it’s pouring down and it’s chilly and I will be miserable every second of the twenty minutes it take me….

Finished reading Edith Wharton’s Pomegranate Seed, a collection of ghost stories. All very chilling in a quiet, unexplained way. Interesting how many of the stories revolve around unexpected visitors

It’s raining heavily. Plans for today cancelled. Staying in and reading books and watching movies (I gave into that suspiciously easily)

Lots of discussion of Wuthering Heights so just saying the idea that the Brontes were 3 wild and isolated girls who just instinctively happened to write some of the greatest novels of all time irritates me. They were intelligent, learned women, traveled, went to school, grew up in a literary family

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Name a video game you've put 500 hours into (I have been stuck on Parasite Mega-Brutal level for ages)

Today I wrote a horror story, read a horror anthology (Edith Wharton’s Pomegranate Seed), went to see a crime movie Crime 101 (I’d already seen all the horrors), played a video game (Plague) and now watching S4 of Whitechapel (Crime AND horror). All by myself. PERFCT Valentine’s Day

WUTHERING HEIGHTS IS A GOTHIC HORROR, NOT A LOVE STORY I really don’t see how anyone can read that book and see it as a love story. And honestly Jane Eyre leans towards gothic horror a lot too. The Bronte sisters belong more to the Ann Radcliffe tradition, not Jane Austen

I'm sure Valentine's Day is lovely for a lot of people, but for me, it is my tradition that I watch a horror movie. And this year also to write a bloody ghost story. And I have very good reason!

After far too long having a complete writer's block (well, not block, I'd start but never finish) I have finally completed a little text story, to be shared with my Patreons. A policeman writes a name - and someone dies...

Oh, here we go again

Oh, carbon dioxide? #CallTheMidwife?

Timothy is way too young to be a doctor, surely, he has to be #CallTheMidwife

Yesterday I had a horror movie day at the cinema - Send Help, The Bone Temple and Iron Lung. All very different movies, all very enjoyable. It really is such a wide genre really, so many different to scare the crap out of people. And talk about a few issues too

Oh, this brightens my day

I know a lot of coffee shops institute complete screen bans to get people to talk to each other, but if you’re on your own and don’t happen to be carrying a physical book around (I don’t generally as I have a lot of books on my phone) it does kind of you condemn to sit and stare into the void

My favourite independent coffee shop to sit in and read and listen to podcasts in has instituted a screen ban at weekends - not just laptops but all screens. So no kindle - no phone. I can see their point but - it does kind of drive me into the nearest Starbucks to read/podcast listen

The more true ghost story podcasts I listen to, the more I yearn to visit Cannock Chase (definitely take the mic and the camera)

I’d planned to write today so of course woke up with a need to deep clean the entire flat. (To be fair it dos need it. And it’s a small flat, it won’t take long. And gives me time for some podcast listening)

Send Help may well be Rachel McAdams finest performance. Now for the Bone Temple. I haven’t actually seen 28 years later yet but hoping it’ll still make some sort of sense

That’s twice that house has turned up in a horror movie this year

I have booked a day off work just to do things I enjoy and no chores so cinema later but right now sitting in a coffee shop reading Andy Weir’s Artemis

Just cancelled a whole bunch of streaming service subscriptions and it feels so good.

So I’m guessing we’re getting a S3….#TheNightManager

Good lord - I’d never heard of that #CallTheMidwife

Poor little Christopher #CallTheMidwife

Every American movie I watch they always have massive basements or garages absolutely packed full of stuff and I always end up thinking ‘do you know how long that lot will take to pack when you move?’ (As a renter I move a lot so it’s often on my mind)

I think what makes the Conjuring films work is not so much the horror but the incredible chemistry between Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga

Watching Conjuring 2 and I know it takes a lot of liberties with the Enfield story but it does look like a 70s house and it reminds me how creepy 70s houses were, all dark and dim and power cuts and TV going off at midnight