🔔 TONIGHT: 4-7pm GMT on Virgin Radio UK Listen online: virginradio.co.uk Hear Neil talk about 'All the Pretty Lights' on the Ben Jones show. The programme will be available on the Virgin Radio website after broadcast. #TheDivineComedy #AllthePrettyLights @virginradiouk.bsky.social

Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 9

Last day for The Big Give, get your donations in before 12 and they will be DOUBLED! A couple of quid to see Madame Cragg and Hugo is a bargain! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Still plenty of time to enter this. I will choose and announce the winners tomorrow (Wednesday) evening.

Tonight! Join us ⬇️

Day 9 of the #HooklandChristmasTree has us pulling the Apple Man from the box, finding him a branch. A painted china charm of him sleeping in his tree, a group of boys at its base whipping and hollering to wake him. How else to get apples for roasted cider to feed the Bone Horse?

Spooky Advent day 9: Binoculars behaving badly - A View from a Hill by M R James, adapted for television by Peter Harness, and directed by Luke Watson, broadcast first on 23rd December 2005.

Behind door number 9 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... M.R. James, and the BBC's A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS strand (Lost Hearts is one of my faves). Christmas isn't Christmas without it!

My contribution to this evening’s L-themed raffle at Locally Sourced Comedy’s regular Tuesday new material night. Last one of the year! Starts at 7.30 (pm) at Little Drop of Poison in Exeter.

Someone on the TV just said “Fancy some sticky toffee pudding?” in a sensual voice and frankly that’s the kind of chat up line that would work on me.

I aim each year to raise £10 for each auction as a basis, so this year raising £630 ish was a target, so it's really great to have raised more! I also have a couple of surprise auctions left to list by @drawingdownlore.bsky.social and @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social stay tuned!

If you're new to what I do, you can find LOADS of episodes of my anti-nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar - a show about everything you remember that nobody ever seems to - here. There's big name guests and names you might not know but you really ought to. Enjoy! timworthington.org/looksunfamil...

There’s a Christmas deadline looming for the following products ⬇️ Don’t say I didn’t warn you. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-or...

WINTER LORDS CHYS KHAN a winter Lord of the Sakha Republic of Northern Siberia dressed in his robes & staff. DED MOROZ or ‘Grandfather Frost’, a Slavic snow god, who often appears with his granddaughter Snegurochka, the snow maiden.

FINAL book giveaway of the year. To enter: reply below & repost this extract. Up for grabs: THREE signed Villager paperbacks with free art (bookmarks & postcards) by my parents. Enter if you enjoy Folklore Nature Rivers Hills Social history Lost art Ghost Tangled psychedelic narratives Silliness

For anyone in need of some motivational words during these dark days before Christmas... #thewickerman #theleagueofgentlemen

The Conductor. 😀 Puffin on Skomer Island this summer. 😍🐦 #birds 🪶 My 2026 Birds calendars make fantastic Christmas presents for the nature lovers in your life. 😀🎁🐦 You can buy them here; www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...

Alright. While I wait to learn how the cost of resolving my car battery/warning light issues: Anyone want to commission 8 lines of doggerel on a subject of your choice, for £25? Bespoke #poetry - the sustainable, unique gift that takes up no space in your home! (Batteries not included) #Wordsmith

Wow! 👀

Day 8 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration and the glass Ghost Bear finds a place. A semi-opaque spectre, he reflects silver tinsel, white fairy lights while haunting the branches. All the other ornaments seem to keep a respectful distance away, almost as if they can hear his roar for revenge.

Ugh, this reminds me of visits to curry houses where my male companions would always be given the hotter curries despite the fact I'd ordered them.

Today's Embracing Arts catwalk...Antonia and Angus edition... Still time to donate - anything given up until tomorrow will be DOUBLED donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Once got enraged with one of my pub quiz teammates who refused my answer that a wobbegong was a shark, and lost us a decent jackpot.

Because joy is resistance and because the fascists have no art in them, or magic.

Still looking for a Christmas present for the Scottish folklore enthusiast in your life? Dark Crescent has you covered - "a terrific collection of Scottish folktales with a modern twist" (according to Joanne Harris!) ✨️ Available in the usual places/via @lunapress.bsky.social! linktr.ee/lyndseycroal

I regularly check the Abbey Road crossing cam to see how many tourists are doing a Beatles pilgrimage. Looked just now, and stubbled across this WTF moment.

New Big Issue out today - support your sellers

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie.

Down to four copies of The Genesis on CD, if you're hoping to give it for Christmas you'd better be swift!

Also just randomly remembered the time I told another girl my name was "Kaye" and she replied "That's not a name, it's a letter!"

Just remembering how when I was sent home from school poorly I'd often have to go to the vicar's house if mum was at work. I'd always curl up in the dog bed with Charlie the Red Setter.

🎵I bet that you'd look good in a bookstore, I don't know if you're looking for a romance, I don't know what you're looking for. I said, I bet that you look good in a bookstore, looking for a book like "I Robot", or "1984". Or "1984".🎵

Love this.

Become ungovernable.

Day 7 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We hang the water folk St. Nicholas toy. Not the plump red-coated icon of most, but a ragged bishop fishing for Stay Belows with a ham dangling from his crosier. Yesterday was his feast and a little too much apple brandy was drunk on the canal.

WOW! 58 auctions bidded on! 63 in total! just one day left!

Signed stocking fillers can be snaffled from my bookshop, if that appeals. Lots of Ladybirds, and a bunch of Cunks, for the funny-book-lover in your life. www.gralefrit.co.uk/shop.html

If there are any journalists, bloggers, students out there wanting to do a piece or some research on POSSESSED - the lost novel I discovered, please do get in touch, I think it's a very important work and a massive moment for the horror community.

Behind door number 7 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... it's the BBC's incredible adaptation of John Wyndham's classic novel about societal collapse and rampaging plants: THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS!

Still time to donate to Embracing Arts via The Big Give ... donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... #StageFright #InsideNo9

After my mum passed away, my dad and I discovered cupboards of books several rows thick.

Ah, a little under TWO DAYS left to bid on my little Mari painting, and many other fancy things..! ebay.us/m/wz1VQ7

With a foreword by me because I love Andy and this was a pure and honest art satire rage against the wankery of how the epidemic was treated in this country. Great and rightful then and now.

One left!

Day 6 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration and the Clapperclaw is taken from tin. No-one knows how the crow-headed figure came to be part of the dressing, but everyone is too afraid to suggest throwing it out. We give it a high branch for it talons to grip, let its glass eyes seek out new prey.

Either way, keep doing it. Not just writing, but art generally. There will always be people who would rather you didn’t.

Chihuahua. Acrylics on canvas board. #caricature #art

Shout-out to Shy Guy, my latest bedroom spider, who has finally emerged from the top of my wardrobe and narrowly avoided descending into a hot cup of tea. Fortunately I spotted his potential mishap and moved it out of the way, and he’s now disappeared into the curtains. 🕷️ #BedroomSpiderUpdate

POSSESSED is now on sale at Amazon for only£8.89 - which is a 20% reduction in price. It's currently at #93 in Classic Horror - I'd like to try and get it to #1. Link to buy below

Make little mari extra happy and bid!