CASTLE OF FEAR- A tour around The UK's most disreputable old ruin(according to Wikipedia),a place so steeped in wickedness and suffering,no sane mind can truly comprehend...

DYING TO MEET YOU- What it feels like waiting for likes on one of your very best tweets to go into double figures 🤣

TEMU WATCH- Spotted on page 1136 of the Temu catalogue is this smart terry towelling monkish bathrobe which they describe pragmatically as 'School Run Wear'. Available in three lively colours, which won't fail to brighten up any school gate,quote unquote

HAMMERED HORRORS-Everyone on here has heard of the Thornhill Vampire,but how many of you remember the equally infamous Highgate Vampire incident of 1969?I was but a tot living in nearby Hampstead,but I can assure you,the palpable fear it generated was felt as far out as MaidaVale

A VERY SMASHING PUMPKIN- Just keeping everyone in the loop regarding my pumpkin as I know so many of you take a keen interest in that kind of thing, I've just taken receipt of my first one of the season and it's a very fine one indeed! I'll update soon on how things progress...

My dad builds beehives to fight climate change. 🐝 Here's what most people don't know: A single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers a day. More pollination = more trees, more crops, more biodiversity, more carbon stored. Bees are climate heroes. #RegenerativeAgriculture

BOOK CORNER-Another recommendation from the Consortium's book shelves. A comprehensive tracing of the history and evolution of 'well dressing' takes up the first half of this tome. The second part comprises entirely of ideas on how you can become a 'Well Dressing Pro' too

HOUSING MARKET-The famous 'Topiary House' in Glasshouse, Gloucestershire which was created at the turn of the last century by a Norwegian seaman who was said to have missed his homeland so intensely that he built a dwelling made entirely out privet as a tribute to the motherland

FEN-AN-TOL-I spent last summer researching and filming the folklore rich fens of East Anglia,basing myself principally in Soham nr.Ely for the most part. Mysterious,uncanny and watery,each day a new ploughing forth into the maze- like grid of drainage channels. Magical

DEAD GOOD- The ghostly ladies of the Shepherd's Walk Congregational Church in LIVING COLOUR!!

GATEKEEPING-Florence Nightingale Richards(1856-1949)held the highly prized post of Key Keeper to the locks of Tintagel Castle for nigh on fifty years. A national celebrity,she held visitors captive with nearly one hundred years worth of anecdotes while living inside a stone hut

GATEKEEPING-The fame of Florence Nightingale Richards knew no international boundary-as can be seen in this photo from 1933 in which Hollywood cowboy actor Gary Cooper finds himself regaled with the entire history of Tintagel despite only asking for directions to the nearest pub

TEMU WATCH- A random flick through the Temu online catalogue brought forth this exquisite hand crafted modern antique plague doctor incense burner. A snip at 84p

PROTECT & SURVIVE- Shropshire Council's solution to allaying Cold War paranoia back in 1984 was the publication of this clever little illustrated booklet which included handy tips on dressing burns, jazzing up tinned food and atavistic survival in the blast zone around the Wrekin

Every Samhain three fairy women would emerge from caves that led to the Otherworld in the form of great wolves to wreak havoc upon the Irish countryside 🐺 🪄 These were the werewolf sisters of Cruachan and they delighted in their night of freedom and destruction during which they would test livestock and even people to pieces. But one year when they excitedly entered the mortal world they were met by the harpist Cas Corach who played music so sweet that they returned to their true form as maidens of the Otherworld 🪉 As the together in stunned silence they were all as one speared in one thrust by the warrior Caílte who, for his troubles, was rewarded with a chalice that would fill itself with whatever drink the bearer desired 🍷

WELL WELL WELL-An owl effigy that featured prominently at the 2026 Malvern Water & Well Dressing Festival that saw all 52 wells in the district dressed with taste and discernment like they were going somewhere swanky If you haven't already been,get there next year...or else