Haunted house stories by Chuck Palahniuk, Grady Hendrix, Kirsty Logan, Matthew Holness, Claire Fuller, Will Maclean, Clay McLeod Chapman, Alison Moore, Irenosen Okojie and Ally Wilkes. Unquiet Guests is available now from Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops. Give a ghost for Christmas.

Managed to point a telescope at the Sun, during a quieter moment this morning. Had planned to hitch a camera for a direct photo rather than this projection effort, but the seeing went off soon after. 🔭 1/2

Seagull and a field with a path through it. #birds #photography #landscape

I made my first ever swiss roll and we haven't had lunch yet so we are quickly throwing lunch together to give us an excuse to eat the swiss roll asap

Loved this. Highly recommended

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A heron and what looks to be a juvenile great cormorant today at the lake in Nottingham university

Nottingham university looking quite nice today

I have made a dozen wholemeal sourdough English muffins and I may soon die

It's publication day for this beauty, with stories by David Bevan @iancritchley.bsky.social @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, @simonokotie.bsky.social, C.D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Naomi Wood, lucky old me! et al. Thank you @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com 🔥

Dozens of birds in this tree, including goldfinches. #birds

PRO-TIP: Live your life in such a way that nobody celebrates you being shanked to death in prison.

Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

Rather than just sit on my kap, our cat has developed the habit of sticking his arse in my face for minutes at a time while he pads away with his toe spikes.

Nice morning!

Something super hopeful: A way to treat Alzheimers that is totally new and was just shown to work amazingly in mice. Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport | share.google/U23UhLehCUUC...

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

It’s true. We are publishing a mini-collection by this talented writer. Normally we publish stories singly, in pairs. If that makes sense. Something made us break that pattern.

Now this could be a game changer.

Good morning. Here's Gareth Hunt demonstrating the dangers of trying to work whist nursing the mother of all hangovers.

This egret really isn't making me work for it, ornithology wise.

Attention: amusing place name discovered.

Keep seeing this on the BBC: "Denmark says 'professional actor' behind drone incursions over its airports" And my mind makes the obvious leap.

Circles.

Heron flying away from the setting sun. #birds #nature #wildlife #sussexbirds

We are now officially long on shortbread.

It has arrived! The nation’s favourite short story anthology in a new shiny livery — grab yours now!

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Neuroscientist Dr Susan Barry has just been asked a very odd question: “Do you think you can imagine what it's like to see the world with 2 eyes?” Her reply: “Yes, of course. I'm a college professor, I teach about it in class. I think I know exactly what it is I'm missing.” She's dead wrong. 1/

@sentimentbot.bsky.social oi oi

Marvellous. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/04...

Interesting morning commute. Once a week I get up at 5am and drive to Manchester. Takes about 1hr 50. Today I got 3 miles from work and got stuck in a 3.5 hour standstill, then got stuck in an endless crawl through Sale. Turned around and came home. 7 hour commute to my own house.

I can’t believe I caught this 🦋 Just before noon, I figured I better check again… the hangar bay was opening! Little out of focus for a few seconds, but I got the focus back- apologies- I was so excited & shooting w/ the sun on my viewer.

Making pittas in the manner of a hardcore motherfucker

Bit of culture. Interval. It's good! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

Just found the perfect playlist for my mood: open.spotify.com/playlist/00v...

Been watching progs from BBC4 Collections. There's some great documentaries in there from the past 60+ years. Social history in every frame. Eg. Cities of Europe, London: We Live by the River: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00s8qlf via @bbciplayer

Will Wiles The Anechoic Chamber ‘Funny, chilling, intriguing: each tale offers something different from the last, and the overall result is like listening to a perfectly made album.’ —Mark Watson

Turns out they really do flock together.

Today in midlife crisis land, I've learned how to make pitta breads

They're calling me 'the British David Sedaris', which is lovely but a crucial differences between us is that a ticket to see him will cost you £60 whereas a ticket to see me at @chorltonbookfest.bsky.social on 16/9 will cost you a max of £6. So, you can afford to see us both. Link below. #booksky

Every time I read this bio of Richard D James it sets my teeth on edge: Richard D James, best known as Aphex Twin, is far and away one of the most celebrated and influential electronic musicians of all time. How can you be "far and away" "one of the most"?

I've double loafed already today, what other wonders lay in store?

Statue in Antwerp that I now refer to as "the junk inspectors"

Antwerp central station is pretty goddamned fancy.

Cool stuff

View from living room in this rental in Antwerp could be worse. Although anyone looking up just saw me taking the second picture in my pants.

Great abundance of interesting buildings and bridges in Rotterdam, we've loved wandering around.

Rotterdam market hall a pretty fascinating construction