It doesn’t matter how many copies this book sells, it will never be an official bestseller. I am not receiving an advance for it. I am funding the printing, art and editing myself. It will appear in few physical bookshops. It’s a different way of doing things. But it’s very fair.

Reclining figure. c. 1937 Vilmos Huszár Stained glass window for the living room of the Bouwens sisters in Nijmegen. Now Kunstmuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands #StainedGlassSunday

Goodnight from The Walton Arms at Binstep, where George Masters is holding forth with wild claims of catching a Hairy Pike. Goodnight from young Sam Penrose, listening to the urgent advice of the skeleton that lives amid the roots of the cherry tree on Mill Hill. Goodnight from Hookland.

Hemp agrimony growing beside a stream in Cambridge. Not quite right for #AquaticPlants, but it comes with a bonus Volucella pellucens. #WildflowerHour #Hoverflies #Diptera

A Teasel in West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

A pleasure to have spent the afternoon in Hookland… #FolkloreSunday

Greek myth tells that Chloris, goddess of flowers, found a lifeless nymph and transformed her into a flower. Aphrodite gave her beauty, Dionysus fragrance, and Zephyrus blew clouds away so Apollo’s sun could make her bloom. Thus the rose became ‘Queen of Flowers’. #FolkloreSunday

Please enjoy this sketch I just did of our local herring gull Rod eating the salt’n’vinegar Hula Hoop I gave him.

Listening to Homer’s ‘Odyssey’: An Epic Experience - WSJ www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

The Long Neolithic casts its shadow from field monarchs, hilltop chieftains. An umbra of folklore and continuity with the past. How can we doubt its power when it makes people into stone pilgrims? Fills with an ache for lithic communion. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Annie Londonderry (1870-1947) a Latvian immigrant to the US, in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world, after a bet by two men who thought it would be an impossible challenge for a woman.... #womensart

Little gods in the grass isn't a new thing. Their names may change, but not their purposes. Field-blessers. Drought defeaters. Stone homes for genii locorum. Prayer amplifiers against every dread a farmer may face. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreSunday

I finally found a family of foxes tucked away in the cemetery. A lady delivered raw chicken and water and they were having a feast. Here is the mother and one of five cubs. The cub had pushed mother away and mum was not having it. Absolute joy! #FoxoftheDay #Fox #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography

Ann Sotheran, contemporary stained glass artist and designer #WomensArt

How I dislike the lazy use of liminal, the idea of edge as the only interesting place. For the ghost is at the centre, it's in the suburbs. Its territory is where we live, work and travel. If you want to find a ghost, forget moor edge and lonely lane, try a train station. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Rebecca Vincent, Kenojuak Ashevak and Olesya Dzhurayeva, just 3 of the many artist printmakers featured in the newest womensart book!! ❤️ REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS www.waterstones.com/book/reframi... Or a bookshop of your choice 📚

One of my favorite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume. Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD. 📷️ Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

Mola, traditional textile created by women of the Kuna people of Panama and Northern Colombia #womensart

If you are wondering how I am spending my evening … pretty much as always - haunting a boneyard.

Goodnight from Gary Atkins, taking haven from the Grinning Man’s pursuit in a midnight showing of City of the Beasts. Goodnight from Roy Bloom, walking Molly Sayle home from the High Barley youth club dance on the pretext of Harrow Hound sightings. Goodnight from Hookland.

It's been an unexpected delight today to see folk posting copies of 'Hookland Fragments' in the wild. It's been somewhat surreal when one of those copies is posted by a writer whose work I adore and is mentioned in book. Thank you to everyone who has posted. It really has made my afternoon better.

National Museum of Scotland: Curator Dr Matthew Knight holds an amazing Bronze Age shield - part of the New Exhibition: Scotland's First Warriors, running until May 2027, more on our page. Museum in Edinburgh with a very broad range of exhibitions and exhibits.

"No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine" (Keats) 🎨 Magnus Gjoen  #bookwormsat

Queen Anne, Queen Anne, has washed her lace (She chose a summer day) And hung it in a grassy place To whiten, if it may. ... Queen Anne, Queen Anne, is dead and gone (She died a summer's day), But left her lace to whiten on Each weed-entangled way! By Mary Leslie Newton #BookwormSat

"What favourite flowers are mine, I cannot say - My fancy changes with the summer day. Sometimes I think, agreeing with the Bees, That my best flowers are those tall apple trees, Who give a Bee his cyder while in bloom, And keep me waiting till their apples come." - W H Davies #BookWormSat #poetry

‘In the beginning Love satisfies us. When Love first spoke to me of love – How I laughed at her in return! But then she made me like the hazel trees, Which blossom early in the season of darkness, And bear fruit slowly.’ ~ Hadewijch of Antwerp #BookWormSat

Stained glass fragment, St Peter-ad-Vincula, Coveney. #Quiet #BlueSkyArtShow

‘But when meadow-sweet, debonair and odorous in amber jerkin, moved graciously to his place in the group, then the play was ready to begin.’ ~ Kenneth Grahame’s TWITW. @racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of trees and flowers from where you are. 🖼️ E H Shepard

Ana Teresa Barboza, Peruvian-born artist who works with textiles, embroidery, crochet and yarn #WomensArt

For the Society of the Miller's Word were never less than weather magicians. They could whistle winds, call still or storm. On those days when the sun made all the land languid, they would display their power in the turning of their sweeps while everyone else ached for breeze. – #CLNolan

Is it possible to have a fox as a pet with full freedom of movement? I believe it is! #UKWildlife #FoxoftheDay #Fox #gardenwildlife #Nature #Photography

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls

In Hookland, you will come across little signs of allegiance. In one window a Moss Maiden displayed, in another an avatar of the Queen of Owls. Coastal doors wear fealty to the King-Under-the-Sea as well as far away islands or orders militant of the Black Fathom Faith. – #MattAdams

flowering gorse bush leaning over towards the sea as if its growth were towards completion of yellow in blue Thomas A. Clark (2014) 🎨 Peregrine Mulvogue Feeney (c.1885) #BookWormSat

"The Rectory Bazaar. Opening Ceremony: Lord Brassey Speaking." Bexhill Observer 11.7.1908. #Brassey #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1900s

She was tall. Her long hair fell to her waist, framing in gold her pale and lovely face. Her eyes were blue. She wore a loose gown of white cambric, embroidered with living green stems of broom and meadowsweet, and a wreath of green oak leaves in her hair. Alan Garner The Owl Service #BookWormSat

🏛️ Beautiful mosaic floor of the Roman baths at the Sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia, Greece. The baths were built ca 150 CE and were used by the athletes who performed in the Isthmian Games. The mosaic depicts Triton and sea creatures. Video filmed a couple of days ago.

Ancient Greek bronze Corinthian helmet, dated to about 460 BCE. From Olympia, Greece. The inscription states that the Argives dedicated the helmet to Zeus as spoil won in battle against the Corinthians (info from museum caption). The British Museum. 📷 me.

Squirrel on gold, Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor, Rouen c.1450-1480.

"Will not your jasmine visit us again, And your cyclamen stand by our wayside To tell us that we too have our roots deep in earth, And that our ceaseless breath would forever climb the sky?" —A Woman, One of Mary’s Neighbours, Khalil Gibran #BookWormSat

Lamorna Cove (c.1919) by English artist Laura Knight, one of her many paintings of the Cornish coast #WomensArt

Starling by contemporary textile artist Julie French #WomensArt

Here’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance: pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays… Hamlet Shakespeare #BookWormSat

Goodnight from Tamsin Booker, regretting her agreement with Frank Weller to do some real-life Scooby-Dooing in Lost Mary Cavern. Goodnight from the Morning-to-Midnight Tea Room at Brighthaven, where the going rate for a used set of telling bones is £100. Goodnight from Hookland.

I am in London but it feels as though I am on the Mediterranean but without the sea. Anyway, this afternoon, a fledged great tit thanked me for the water I left in the flower border. Don't forget the birds! #greattit #fledgling #birdphotography #Birds #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography

Bagged. Old London. #london #england #uk #unitedkingdom #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #monochrome

Moth and bee. June 2026 #moths #bees #pollinators #Flyday #bugsky #insects #macro #nature #pentax #pentaxk1 #photography

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

Martagon lily #scape, @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. 📷 #photography

Marmalade hoverfly on Fennel in the garden. #Hoverflies #Diptera