Norse day at Bancroft school. I’m telling Norse legends and running creative writing workshops. Currently watching some Viking re-enactors prepping for a display … and, rather worryingly, sharpening the blade of a Great Dane Axe! :) #storytelling #Norsemythology #vikings

Solskin festival day 3: last day of stories beneath ‘the great oak’, closing ceremony by the Sheffields Goddess Temple, great music from Shannon Pearl. End of the weekend, but what a great weekend it was! #pagan #heathen #Storyteller

Solskin Festival day 2: telling Sláine beneath the great oak, fab music and energy (as always) from Fae as Folk and the gift of a pendant and sketch from blacksmith Chris from Bale Fire Blades. More today for the past day! #Storyteller #pagan #heathen

First day of Solskin festival : performing under the great oak, great music and fancy headgear from Adfeilion board games in the bar, inspiring open mic acts, exemplary mead from Afonso Mel, bumping into the Saxon Forager/ Wyrd Wessex, and the saddest dog in the world. More tomorrow!

Lovely Father's Day walk with Son-And-Heir (complete with posing Highland Bull, and traditional Warwickshire water buffaloes), and finished off the evening cooking a wild mushroom chowder, garnished with samphire! #storyteller #autismdad

‘The Eye’. Just a pic of a state lantern at The Micklegate Social at a show I did a few weeks back. That is all. #Storyteller #York

New illustration for a book I’m working on, for later this year: scarlet macaw. #storyteller #illustration

Happy Father's Day 🖤

And then I met @2000ad.bsky.social (and others) artist @injculbard.bsky.social just before I started my packed out Sláine: The Horned God show in Nottingham last night. #Storyteller #comics #artwork

Lovely morning telling stories at Leamington Peace Festival Also pleased to see our MP Matt Weston and actor David Bradley introducing the opening ceremony! I’m back tomorrow at 11 to tell more stories. #leamingtonpeacefestival #storyteller #fanboy #gameofthrones #harrypotter

In a recent visit to perform at Mooreforge Viking Centre, I found they had two of these ‘traditional’ Cumbrian birds! #Storyteller #storytelling #emu

Telling stories for the ‘Day of the African Child’, along with drummers, singers and dancers for 600+ primary kids. Organised by @oneworldlink #oneworldlink #dayoftheafricanchild #storytelling

Raining and reading. Me, and the view from my hotel room this morning, before another show tonight at Cafe#9 #Storyteller #storytelling #storytellingforgrownups

Some snaps from day 1 of 2 at Sarehole [Tolkein] festival: storytellers, Elves, wizards, aerial performers and musicians, and weapons displays!

Arrived at Sarehole [Tolkien] Festival and relaxing, listening to ‘Found in a Field’ before catching a telling of Beowulf, and then I’ll be telling Sigurd and Fafnir the Dragon at 2pm. #sareholefestival #lotr #tolkien #storyteller

A World Full of Stories: downthetubes sat down with @jasonstoryteller.bsky.social to talk about his one-man performance of Sláine: The Horned God - currently touring! Read the full interview here: https://bit.ly/4fi9SCJ

There’s a rogue “O” in the book title

For those of you who've always wanted to see a picture of a young, beardless me in a bowler hat, drop-pearl earrings and playing a post horn ... here you go. #LARP #Storyteller #Storytelling

End of this month I'll be performing on both 30 and 31st at the @tolkiensociety.bsky.social's Sarehole Festival in the West Midlands UK - only £8! Details here: sareholefestival.org/guest-speakers #storyteller #tolkien #storytellingforgrownups #lotr

Marking 'National Lost Sock Memorial Day', I'll be on @blackcountryradio.co.uk at 2pm today (or listen later) , here: www.blackcountryradio.co.uk #storyteller #storytelling #foiklore

Live online (or watch later), a night of skaldic tales of battles, blood feuds and black magic. More info here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989141755... #storytelling #viking #pagan #mythology #foklore

I'm not very good at having days off - both because I'm self-employed and also very restless - so last week I had a self-imposed sickie. I lounged around, played computer games, read comics, and ignored work messages. #storyteller #adultADHD

FREE to listen to! From my work with Supergreat Kids' Stories, here's my story, based on Swedish folklore, 'The Milk Hare': a story of pesky witch§es, greedy farmers, magical things animated from bits and pieces and a win-win ending... podfollow.com/super-great-... #stortytelling

Sunday R&R with Son-and-Heir and a little chess. #chess #Storyteller #autismdad

Best with sound. Beltain festival at @butserancientfarm.co.uk where there was music, storytelling (me), traders, food and drink, Morris, drumming … and FIRE! #beltain #beltaine #pagan #storytelling #wickerman

Blast from the past - me telling my own short folk horror tale on Mythos podcast (11 mins total)... podcast.show/mythospodcas...

SATURDAY at @butserancientfarm.co.uk is the Beltane burning man festival! I’ll be there again, in the Neolithic House, telling 30 mins of stories at 5:15pm and again at 6:45. See you there! #beltane #storytelling #fantasy

I was recently asked to tell stories for these two lovely people at their wedding reception. Lovely folks, banging music, superbly gothic decor, and great reception as ‘the bard’. Thank you guys for inviting me to be part of your special day 😈 ❤️ ☠️ #storyteller #storytellingforgrownups

Oh look! It’s beardless me in an old Stereophonics video for ‘Just Looking’. #stereophonics #storyteller #storytelling

Opening ritual at Nottingham’s Beltane Pagan Pride. Lovely day, lovely crowds, lovely organisers - thank you for inviting me, and my stories, to be part of it :) #paganpride #paganprideuk #sneintonmarket #storyteller #storytelling

It’s my birthday! And I’m telling stories this afternoon at #paganpride in Nottingham! #storyteller #storytellingforkids #storytelingforgrownups

Running through materials for my show ‘The Call of Cthulhu: a cold case’. Four dates, starting next week. Details here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-call-... #Cthulhu #StorytellingForGrownups #horror

Update on ‘Thomas’ (number 3). Almost finished, but now looks like The Oogie Boogie Man from ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’! #homebrew #storyteller #storytelling #nightmarebeforechristmas

Dear @2000ad.bsky.social Please send more weekly copies to ASDA Leamington Spa as, now the secret’s out, there are never any copies left for me :(

Couple of owl illustrations for my and Amy Douglas' 2027 journal, available later this year. Felt tips, pencil, fine liners, backgrounds in Photoshop. #illustrationn #storyteller #storytelling

Up at 5am and creeping around in the undergrowth, with Kimbers, delighting in being dressed in our camo. Pics to come: hares, muntjacs, pheasants, thrushes, dunnocks and more. #wildlifephotography #storyteller #storytelling

Of the MANY photos I took of starlings (likely young, or parents feeding chicks) swiftly emptying the bird feeder in my garden, I'm pleased with these two shots. #storyteller #gardenbird #ornithology

Well look what I acquired yesterday! The facemask piece is going to form part of my costume for Fantasy Forest this year #storyteller #storytelling #fantasyforest #3dprinting #wastelands

Come back to the water's edge with @jasonstoryteller.bsky.social and myself - #storytelling from #folklore, fantasy and the deep human past, online 19th Apr. Book your place at: facebook.com/events/s/dee...

My bro and my sis-in-law brought me papers from my late Dad. Among photographs and family tree was a letter from a publisher rejecting my Dad's children's story about a dragon with a wooden leg. Here's me reading it to nephew, son-and-heir, and niece (photographer). I'll defo perform soon.

Nuff said.

I’m not a sporty person and don’t know much about football, but I did notice a remarkable similarity between Manchester born Conrad Turner - aka Captain Black (left) and the arsenal manager Mikel Arteta (right). #arsenal #captainscarlet #storyteller

Easter weekend walk with the family, using the @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social map app (free version) to follow a 4 mile walk around Warwickshire.

Wishing you all a (relatively) "Happy" Easter. 🐰 🥚 🧺 😩

Lovely postcards that were made for me by 3 younglings who attended my ‘Spring Magic’ folktales last night at Cafe9 #storytelling #storyteller

Back at Cafe#9 again, to deliver a SECOND performance if ‘Sláine: The Horned God’. More dates in bio… @2000ad.bsky.social #slaine #storytelling #comics

Here’s an update on ‘Thomas’. Yesterday afternoon I put some alle test in, from the excellent Slaughterhouse Tap Room. After a VERY exciting, bubbling, today Thomas is a little calmer. Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen … IT LIVES! More lightning! #frankenwine #homebrew #storyteller

This is Thomas. After I made tomato chutney last summer I tried to make a fruit compote. Despite being in the fridge, the corks on the two bottles periodically popped off. Today, I have made … Thomas! … and let’s see if a rhubarb, ginger, grape and Demerara sugar wine is created, in time!

Quick snap of me performing Sláine: The Horned God (from @2000ad.bsky.social ), at The Pit at Newstead last week. Full crowd, great reception, fab hosts (as always). More dates here: 2000ad.com/news/dont-mi... #slaine #comicbook #storyteller #storytellingforgrownups

I received the reply, "And you want me to send my accountant THAT!', from chum and colleague Amy Douglas. One of those times when autocorrect would have been really useful (the word was 'Duck').