Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

“Farm workers follow where the spinner has passed and collect the potatoes in shallow baskets. Picking up potatoes is back-aching work” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Another #SundayMorning has arrived so here's our "usual" start to the day: "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne. It was in the first Group exhibition at Alex. Reid & Lefevre Galleries in 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums. #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup

Aren't country lanes brilliant? www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

On #BookshopDay Ladybird book character Jane, choosing herself a new Ladybird book Artist: Harry Wingfield, (Read and Write, 1965)

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread. 1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970). Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.” You’ll need: - Tweed trilby - Mutton chops - Cracked spectacles - A copy of The Golden Bough

Trk 285 of 365: a dynamic, loud/soft statement of intent with some crunchy guitars and sneaky, sinister riffs. Frankly ridiculous lyrics. It isn't about you unless you think it is. From 2014. Free streaming & download. #musicsky #🎧 #musicchallenge #musiciansky jetwelder.bandcamp.com/track/weve-o...

No medieval filter here! A modern recreation of a Viking ruler for Denmark’s National Museum, based on the depiction of Cnut in the New Minster Liber Vitae and on clothes found at a grave in Mammen, Denmark. #medievalsky

YOU SHALL NOT PASS

Long rabbit jumping over a skull

Houses seen from car park on way to city centre

Legend is female Druids of the county did not disappear during Roman occupation, but instead melded with the forests to become its Green Ladies, its Moss Maidens. A historian will tell you this is nonsense. A folklorist will merely tell you stories hold impossible truths. - #CLNolan #FolkloreFriday

Trk 284 of 365: a song recorded while undergoing cancer treatments in 2015-2016. Strummy guitars abound. Kinda sounds like a collision of "Village Green"-era Kinks and P. Simon's "Kodachrome". Free streaming & download. #musicsky #🎧 #musicchallenge #musiciansky jetwelder.bandcamp.com/track/a-stud...

Don’t you hate standing at gigs? I hate standing at gigs. At my gig on the 21st October you can sit in nice red chairs. It’s on a boat five minutes from Canary Wharf station. I play all of my record The Ship’s Piano. wegottickets.com/fikarecordings

I've never had coq-au-vin like it.

She asset-stripped an entire country and squandered the money to buy votes. Most of the problems with Britain today can be traced back to her disastrous social and economic experiment.

Other work of the Ladybird artists. October (Shell Guide, 1957) Artist: SR Badmin

A photo I took of my cats making their way back home after killing a man.

Trk 283 of 365: a slamming punk number w/ buzzsaw guitars from 2012 (but written in the 1990s) that reveals what happens to super spy secret agents when they fuck up. Action! Intrigue! Stilts! Free streaming & download! #musicsky #🎧 #musicchallenge #musiciansky jetwelder.bandcamp.com/track/cluste...

🕯️💛🕯️'Twilight Dreams' - by Arthur Rackham #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreThursday Black Annis A hag with a taste for human flesh (especially children). She is said to haunt the countryside of Leicestershire. From the Reader’s Digest Folklore Myths & Legends of Britain. Illustration by George Tute.

Please return mother

"The most devastating shortcoming of LLMs is that however many things they appear to know about the world, and however smoothly they express these things, they don’t actually know that there is a world." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ghost ponces and phantom mongers would call it ‘psychic residue’. Me Nokes, I am a practical man. I call it collywobble echoes or if I am feeling little poetic, a place remembering. – #DICallaghan in conversation with #DSNokes

A Lapwing painted onto a Jameson drinks mat from the 1980s. darrenhaymanart.com

Oh go on then. I’ve also added the skull and Corbett. These are a bloody bargain, there’s 45 years of wisdom infused and contained within them www.chloecumming.com

'The Port of London' (1920-24) by William Patrick Roberts (Tate)

Trk 282 of 365: here is an guitar-ambient track, starting with a loop riff sampled from one of my other recordings and moving into more spacerock areas by the end. Very chill, actually! Free streaming & download. #musicsky #🎧 #musicchallenge #musiciansky phantomlevers.bandcamp.com/track/egolab...

A Snowy Owl painted onto a drink/drive Whitbread beer mat from the 1970s. darrenhaymanart.com

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

En-nígaldi-Nanna, the daughter of the last king of the Neo-Babylonian empire (626-539 BCE), had a museum in Ur, complete with 1500 year old artifacts and “museum labels.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigal...

UK: amzn.eu/d/8eWHyLf US: a.co/d/0UDZgQd

A Barn Owl painted onto a drink/drive Courage beer mat from the 1970s. darrenhaymanart.com

If you ask me to give one defining aspect of the character of Hooklanders, it would be their refusal to have their sense of awe diminished. They refuse to be disenchanted. Modernity is no barrier to their sense of encroaching otherworlds. Even in suburbia, they maintain wonder. – Dr. M. Benn

This is one of my favourite paintings by Elwin Hawthorne: "Wick Lane" from 1930. It was once owned by Sir David Scott & it was sold @Sothebys in November 2008. I have included Elwin's painting notes for interest. #ElwinHawthorne #EastLondonGroup

Two Tawny Owlets painted onto a drink/drive Brewmaster Export Ale beer mat from the 1970s darrenhaymanarr.com

'St Paul’s Cathedral from the River Thames by Night' by St. Clair Augustin Mulholland (1839-1910) (Private collection)

Goodnight from Tim Nye, only remembering the cursed fate of those who drunkenly climb Weychester University statues during Fresher’s Week after it’s too late. Goodnight from Elma Cade, stitching the little sorrows of the day into a rag for banishment by burning. Goodnight from Hookland.

Trk 280 of 365: a happy little tune from 2021 about a guy who really enjoys his work. Whistle along to this jaunty song about someone who has crushed his own soul. At least he keeps busy! Free streaming & download. #musicsky #🎧 #musicchallenge #musiciansky jetwelder.bandcamp.com/track/the-ha...

We are in that part of autumn where the wish to hurry home before dark becomes more pronounced and yet we can't fully articulate just why this is so. The redundant lamplighter phantoms come earlier and earlier. As does our unease in certain places. This season pokes with fingers of fear. – #DAKilroy

Those churches edging towards ferality often show the first signs in their boneyards. The sexton is absent. Visits to the dead lessen. Trees claim their territory, rude roots pushing aside long-settled bones. Ecclesiastical law weakens, wild sprits begin to hold sway. – #CLNolan

Goodnight from Dom Holden, shuddering from the knowledge of which garage doors on the Bartlett Estate hide carbon monoxide phantoms. Goodnight from Bos Wyke, holding vigil in Scritch Woods against both poachers and Woodwose hungry before its winter sleep. Goodnight from Hookland.

Gardening (Helping at Home, 1961) Artist: Harry Wingfield

With Autumn now seemingly upon us, I thought that this one of "Essex Landscape, Early Morning" by Walter Steggles from 1938 might be appropriate. The rising mist is just the sort of thing that one might see at this time of year. In the background one can see the Chappel Viaduct. #WalterSteggles

My heart is always happier when my feet – unsteady as they are – take their first few steps into the wood. For the woodland path curves to mystery, curves towards the possibility of feral strangeness. Each visit replenishes my store of wonder, whispers new stories. – #CLNolan,

I try to live my life through the teachings of the great philosophers…I think it was Kant who said “It really doesn’t matter if it’s raining or it’s fine, just as long as you’ve got time to P-L-A-Y, play away way, play away away play away way away away play away” #philosophy #50something

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun. joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Communal ossuary. Observatory of the dead. Possibly both, neither or more. There are portal dolmen which refuse us certainty. As archaeologists we are never immune to mystery. Our dance with it is delight. Our dance with it is the Long Neolithic manifesting. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday