Dune Cat Budget Version

A local hemlock glade. #TolkienTuesday

... which reminds me of this story that Barry Cryer told about Willie Rushton:

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Might anyone be at the British Library over the next week, who could call up and take pictures of a 10-page article for me?

Did anyone else see this message in the clouds this morning? #LookUpAtTheSkyDay

I am very chuffed that my song 'Elf-Fair Lady' opens this week's episode of Filkcast, the podcast of sci-fi and fantasy music filkcast.blogspot.com/2026/04/filk.... My first ever podcast or radio play!

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1838

"Now I am old they point and peer / As every day I await you here / I know you will come and heal my pain / Soon with you I shall dance again". Just posted a new recording of a song I wrote nearly 30 years ago about a mortal in love with the Queen of Elfland. apoolofsong.wordpress.com/elf-fair-lady/

"Now I am old they point and peer / As every day I await you here / I know you will come and heal my pain / Soon with you I shall dance again". Just posted a new recording of a song I wrote nearly 30 years ago about a mortal in love with the Queen of Elfland. apoolofsong.wordpress.com/elf-fair-lady/

A bit late this year but it's time to go prune the apple trees youtube.com/watch?v=hg2p...

Bookings for Oxonmoot 2026 are now open! Taking place online and at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, on 3-6 September 2026, Oxonmoot is our annual event which brings together #Tolkien fans, scholars, students and Society members from across the world. #LOTR www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonm...

Happy solstice everyone! Here's a song about how it might have been celebrated in Orkney about 5000 years ago apoolofsong.wordpress.com/circle-song/ #wintersolstice #orkney

For the #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday theme of "Labour/Working" here's a short poem I wrote a long time ago. #Tolkien #Silmarillion

Happy solstice everyone! Here's a song about how it might have been celebrated in Orkney about 5000 years ago apoolofsong.wordpress.com/circle-song/ #wintersolstice #orkney

A few years ago I wrote a poem about a community sustained by a well of shining water, which was then destroyed. Allegory? No. Applicability? That's up to the reader! apoolofsong.wordpress.com/the-well/