Oh FFS. Lots of Glis glis (aka Rave Dormice) in my loft NOW. An Echo Dot pumping out bangin beats. The furry c*nts say they’re here to ‘party all nite strictly old skool style’, so no sleep for me, just this racket accompanied by the sound of paws pounding the floor🙄 open.spotify.com/album/5j0N9O...

Why?! Will these attract pandas to my garden? Or are they intended to deter any pesky black & white raccoon/bear who dares encroach upon my property, drawn there due to a profusion of bamboo round the back? In the words of A. Crowley: ‘I am perplexed’…

@enfielddispatch.bsky.social “Toby Carvery admits felling ancient Whitewebbs oak. The owner of the pub chain falsely claimed the tree was dead as justification for the felling which has shocked local people & prompted outrage from conservationists across the country…” Petition: chng.it/GdTqtvCrNS

Oh hello, THE VOURDALAK has landed on Channel 4's free streaming service. A ripping adaptation of the Tolstoy (also seen in Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, of course). Love the commitment to having the titular blood-sucking cadaver portrayed by a life-size walkin' talkin' marionette, good stuff...

Times are tough for us all with inflation/utility bill costs increases, meanwhile no wage rises, general despond and gloom, fears about what the orange lunatic across the pond will do next… but things could be worse - a lot worse. Imagine being a civilian in Gaza www.instagram.com/p/DHW6_NtNMQ...

“Tuam ipsius animam (ait ad Mariam Simeon) pertransibit gladius” / “Your own soul (Simeon told Mary) shall be pierced by a sword” #sevensorrowsofMary #ThreeofSwords youtu.be/kkQhcEHzezI?... This Tarot design (by the talented www.danielmartindiaz.com) explicitly employs trad RC imagery… 1/2

Stock market latest: Greed's crashed while Fear is soaring high edition.cnn.com/markets/fear...

Take that Satan, ye bastad auld serpent ye

Brilliant beavering by @stephencollins.bsky.social

Can’t help thinking Frankie Howerd’s scriptwriters missed a trick here [thanks to @mrpaulcowdell.bsky.social for the tip]

In remembrance of Saint Casimir, whose memorial it is today. May he protect Poland, Lithuania, and the other Baltic States throughout the next three years and more

... This is really cool 💙

'Three Storks Living in Peas' - by #Ukrainian Folk artist, Maria Prymachenko (1909-1997) Storks are one of the most honoured birds in Ukrainian culture. Once called ‘botsiun’, ‘boussel’, ‘buz’ko’ – translated as God’s Bird (Божа птиця) – an indication of deep sacredness of this image... #art

The Wirral Cave Lion!

A bog body found in #Ireland, previously thought to be a male, has actually been confirmed to be female. Evidence shows her throat was slit and she was decapitated before being thrown into the bog sometime between the 4th and 1st century BCE. Researchers believe she may have been a human sacrifice.

Feel the vibe

“Lionel - the howler monkeys are back on the patio again, and this time it looks like they really mean business. Can’t we do something dear - isn’t there a hotline we can call?” “Just ignore them Janet, they’re only attention-seekers. Saw a fair bit of this type of chicanery when I was in Accounts”

Starmer’s broken Britain innit

‘The Souls of the Mountains’ Remedios Varo, 1938

11th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM at Lily Dale, New York 14752 USA July 23-26 2025; curated by Shannon Taggart Including! Spoon Bending Party John Keel The Kibbo Kift The Cinematic Séance Eric Dingwall The Paranormal Object Liminal Dreaming The Art of Ectoplasm C21st Gothic's Spirituality The Occult Zelig...

From the Spherical Archives: My guest for episode 100 was photojournalist Shannon Taggart, who joined me to discuss her 2019 photobook 'Seance'. It was a very interesting conversation and a great topic on which to reach a century of episodes! #Podcast #Paranormal podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Very happy to be on the editorial board of this new series from Bloomsbury. Do get in touch with the editors if you have ideas or proposals 👻🦇

SEPARATED AT BIRTH. Thomas De Quincey / Albert Steptoe. “You disgust me, you just can’t leave that laudanum bottle alone can ya! Now we’re skint again - and who’s gonna feed the bleedin horse?” “Ave a heart Harold, it was only a few drops - me lumbago was playing up something rotten”

Brisk early morning walk today in the wondrous winter brightness, on my way to #oldstpancras church for #Candlemas. Ushanka, black Crombie, gloves, Loake brogues; mentally rehearsing today’s reading (Malachi): “For he is like a refiner’s fire…”

Fingask barrow columbarium - completed but not yet open for business…#DeathBC

I've been thinking about owls recently. These are from 2023. Their bellies are harvest moons. #art #sculpture #owls

Hello, my father needs treatment because he suffers from kidney failure, and my younger brother's syndrome also helps my brother, a doctor who works to treat the wounded. Thank you to everyone who helps them, whether with a donation or repost thank you🫶🏻 www.gofundme.com/f/youssef-an...

Not sure if I experienced the indwelling of the Holy Spirit one evening in church last week, or whether I was under the combined influence of various prescribed medicines - but it was most pleasing all the same. Surprised people by refusing my customary post-Mass & Benediction glass of wine or three

In Shropshire, Nightjars were sometimes known as 'lych-fowls' or 'Corpse-Fowls'. Their nocturnal calls were often described as an omen of death or destruction. You can hear more about the folklore of death and its omens by following the link below- media.rss.com/the-shropshi... #Folklore

Annoying Friday plug for anyone still keen to honour the 1976 Nationwide report on the discovery of the Hexham Heads in a Northumberland garden and the ensuing werewolf visitations...

3/3 'For of Such is the Kingdom' A detail of the Kingdom of Heaven window, 1960, by Rosemary Rutherford at Bradfield, Essex. More from Bradfield: www.flickr.com/photos/norfo...

2/3 'For of Such is the Kingdom' Glass at Soham, Cambridgeshire by Joseph Nuttgens, 1957. More from Soham: www.flickr.com/photos/norfo...

'For of Such is the Kingdom' Margaret Edith Rope's 1919 window at Clippesby, Norfolk, her first major commission (and, in East Anglia at least, her best). Clippesby: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/clippesby/cl...

Popped into the Brompton Oratory en route to visiting the auld feller (my Dad, that is, not God). Practiced the Rosary at the shrine/chapel of St Patrick. Note the little shamrock and snake emblems!

New book seen at work

Don't Fear The Reaper - but FEAR THE WEASEL

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM!!

3/3 St Sebastian by Ninian Comper, 1912 at Langham, Rutland. Today's the feast of St Sebastian. I know that @markculham.bsky.social has researched Comper's original sources, I wonder where this one was from?

2/3 The martyrdom of a seated St Sebastian in 17C continental glass now at Ufford, Suffolk. Again, the framing seems very tight, perhaps suggesting it was cut down from a larger scene. Roundels were fashionable in the early 19th Century, and perhaps the whole piece was damaged.