Looking for a pack of quirky, fine art-based Christmas cards? My Christmas cards bloke has just reminded me we've still got these on sale and I haven't mentioned them at all this year… peakrill.com/products/cez...

NEW VIDEO: To celebrate reaching 90% funded on my kickstarter here's another countdown for Easter eggs fans: Sgt Pepper Favourite Random Objects… There's still time to get your book at chrisbarkerprints.co.uk

"We are the Barley Brothers. Ousted out of Birmingham & Wolverhampton, Lords of the Left Hand Brain, The shadows of odd doings follows us through the night." - M John Harrison, In Viriconium

GOV.UK website UX designers are having a fucking laugh

"The testicles or didymi…their coats are three: the cremaster or elevator muscle of the testicle… The two epididymides…are oblong, almost cylindrical parts, lying on the upper border of the testicle, and each having somewhat the appearance of a caterpillar or silkworm" Learn something new every day

These were done for @peakrillpress.bsky.social King Arthur vs Devil Kitty. #kingarthur #arthurian #illustration

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Is it maybe time to promote @christhebarker.bsky.social's starter pack of WHIMSY again? I THINK IT IS

Woke up to an astounding number of new followers – hello everyone! How did you arrive here? If you could check out our latest Kickstarter, below, that would be very much appreciated – it's not doing as well as we'd hoped ☹️

Proud to be crowdfunding for a new edition of The Night, by Alison J Carr. This uplifting illustrated novella explores a woman's journey from sexual visibility but lack of agency, through to self-possession and refusal to fear the night. Read more: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...

Proud to be crowdfunding for a new edition of The Night, by Alison J Carr. This uplifting illustrated novella explores a woman's journey from sexual visibility but lack of agency, through to self-possession and refusal to fear the night. Read more: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...

A moon which genuinely is made of cheese.

It's International Owl Awareness Day! Lots of bog owls (AKA short-eared owls) live around us. Last year a group of 7 or 8 of them flew up from the road ahead of us. And then this happened...

Forgive me pushing my zines again, we are into the final hurdle and they're almost all gone :). They're £10 (including postage - UK only I'm afraid) and feature lots of beautifully romantic ruins crumbling away in the North Pennines. #Photography #Zine www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...

This still makes more sense than ever other "American makes cup of tea" video I've ever seen.

logging onto Bluesky

well actually since a saber is traditionally curved and the “blade” is of a finite length the more accurate name would be a plasma tulwar so based on my mastery of Lore everyone else is a drooling fool

I have a book stall today at Weardale Wordfest at St Thomas Church Hall in Stanhope, 10:30 to 3:30. Come visit!

Today’s post: #moorland #beavers #natureemergency #peakdistrict #theoutdoorcity - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...

The problem remains that we’d rather screenshot awful ppl for numbers than share stuff that’s actually good. I’m trying to do the latter as much as possible these days.

Peakrill Press have a stall at Weardale Wordfest book fair, Saturday 2nd August 10am to 3:30pm at St Thomas's Church Hall, Stanhope, County Durham. Come say hi!

@christhebarker.bsky.social you've got competition 😉

Unashamedly I repost my favourite Onion headline of all time. I think about the beauty of this almost on a daily basis.

Keir Starmer is right now pondering whether he can get in on this

Ozzy, in the underworld, screaming at the ferryman: Charon! Charon! news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

This is my wife, The Lovely Alison!

My friend Alison is putting on a touring exhibition of art in a hamster cage, a cabinet of curiosities for the 21st century. Please help support her if you can: www.indiegogo.com/projects/the...

#smallpressday peakrill.com/collections/...

Supernatural television thriller began #SapphireAndSteel began on ITV on this day in 1979.

Peakrill Press have a stall at Weardale Wordfest book fair, Saturday 2nd August 10am to 3:30pm at St Thomas's Church Hall, Stanhope, County Durham. Come say hi!

Another fantastic review of Crab & Bee's Matter of Britain, this time from Northern Earth magazine. Get the book here: peakrill.com/products/cra...

Super excited that our little indie book has been very positively reviewed alongside folk classic "Folklore Myths and Legends of Britain", and Amy Jeffs' best-selling, book-of-the-year shortlisted "Storyland". youtu.be/nsWNZaqAOZA

Super excited that our little indie book has been very positively reviewed alongside folk classic "Folklore Myths and Legends of Britain", and Amy Jeffs' best-selling, book-of-the-year shortlisted "Storyland". youtu.be/nsWNZaqAOZA

Second look at strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as basis for government?

Who's now watched Adam Curtis's SHIFTY on iPlayer? Finished it last night. Of all the things, I can't get Thi the elephant and the horsebox fella's horse out of my mind. Odd how it's the animals who bring it all home.

I found a website where you can specify a tiny bit of dialogue and it'll find a clip of someone saying exactly that for you. I have no idea what to use it for but…

Kind of wish academic papers could come with 1980s style sword and sorcery cover images.

Paging Jeff Minter...

Xylarium – a library of wood. This one is in Canberra, it has 47000 samples. fennerschool.anu.edu.au/about/facili...

My latest research article 'Monstrous Megaliths: Ancient Stones in Folk Horror Film and Television – Showing, Telling and Making On-Screen Folklore' proposes my own methodology to describe the showing, telling and making of folklore on-screen.VERY proud of this! www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

Last few tickets to see these stories performed in Whitby, alongside local history & folklore plus an amazing folk horror choir: peakrill.com/products/cra...

Tell me your pet's name with a GIF

I feel seen

A mate just sent me this

Another fantastic review of Crab & Bee's Matter of Britain, this time from Northern Earth magazine. Get the book here: peakrill.com/products/cra...

The Crab & Bee road-show comes to #Whitby on 23rd June, at the Jet Black Jewel. Folklore, storytelling, and the incredible #folkhorror choir that is the Midsommars. Tickets only £3 here: peakrill.com/products/cra...

...and if you want to dig into English folklore, may I recommend Crab & Bee's Matter of Britain? It's as fresh as it is ancient, equal parts Elder Edda and Mighty Boosh: peakrill.com/products/cra...