St Mary's, Warwick, looking kind of gothic behind still-bare branches
10.03.2026 09:29
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St Mary's, Warwick, looking kind of gothic behind still-bare branches
Cool playlist on 6Music's Freak Zone #InternationalWomensDay special. 'Reverend Sisters', folk rock from the 1970s by Mellow Candle, is standout track for me so far.
Ladybird nestling in dead hydrangea flower - Winter and Spring in one shot
#SmallBeauties
This week’s listening: “Bovary” – Sidi Bou Said. What with it being #WorldBookDay earlier this week
#musicsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loxy...
Book cover of Wintering by Katherine May
Reading this 👇as I'm rubbish at winter.
Will it stop utter despair descending on a December afternoon?: dunno
Is it a beautifully written, thought- provoking read?: definitely
#WorldBookDay
Bumblebee hovering over the lawn this morning. My first bee sighting of the year 🐝🐝🐝
The church of St Mary peeking over flooded meadows in Stoneleigh
Ducks on my pond in a pot basking in the Spring sunshine
#SmallBeauties
Well, I guess Megan Markle can breathe a sigh of relief now Zack Polanski is the right wing media's demon du jour......
With International Women’s day being on 8 March, here’s a past post from my blog on the American anthropologist, Ruth Landes (1908-1991) and her book on Candomblé, ‘The City of Women’.
#MondayBlogs
natureandsupernaturalnature.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/r...
Scenes from yesterday's mooch to the European Model Railway show in Longbridge
This week’s listening: “Vampyres” – Inkubus Sukkubus. Cos yesterday I headed off Derby way to hear some fascinating talks and attend my first ever writing workshop at this year’s #UKGhostStoryFestival.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Su...
We kick off Friday for the UK Ghost Story Festival at QUAD here in Derby, and here's everything on the schedule for Day 1 of the event! www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/ #derby #derbyshire #festival #festivals #ghosts #ghost #ghoststories #ghoststory #gothic #writing #writers #authors
This morning’s listening: “Shot By Both Sides” – Magazine. The crumbling pot-hole strewn roads seem a metaphor for crumbling institutions of state. But if we give in to cynicism, the bad ppl have won
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybUq...
Look closely and you'll see jackdaws roosting on this statue on the front of the church of St John the Baptist, Burford.
I like it. Sounds more appropriate. 🙂
A herd of snowdrops in Stoneleigh today
This week’s listening: “Bind Their Kings in Chains” – Blyth Power. Even as a child I never got the whole “idolise the people in sparkly hats” thing.
#BlythPower #folkpunk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2XX...
Season 11 Episode 188 UK Ghost Story Festival - white words on a red and grey background
Episode 188
UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL CHATS
Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-188....
Or watch on YouTube at youtu.be/Stx4OefiEuw
In advance of this year's festival, I present my chats with Alex Foulkes, Teika Marija Smits and @romgothsam.bsky.social at last year's event
Stone child angel on top of a pillar with bare branches in the background. Kind of folk horror vibe because early evening light turned things monochrome
A sweetly solemn angel in the churchyard of the church of St Mary, Stoneleigh
My bowl of mini cyclamen hasn't flowered this year. Turns out they've been hatching an escape plan as elsewhere in the garden.... 👇
First day in ages it's not been raining. Plus there's a strange yellow object dangling in the sky. 🌞
Such an energy boost. I'm bouncing off the walls like Tigger on speed.
A tabby cat on the remains of a lawn
Someone's 13 today 👇
Happy birthday Millie (and sozz for blurting your age out all over the interweb)
#Caturday
This week’s listening: “Empire of the Senses” – Bill Nelson. Wot with it being Valentine’s Day an’ all.
#musicsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ8o...
More graveyard* snowdrops iiluminating drab winter days.
*The churchyard of Holy Trinity, Hatton, is brilliant for the flowers.
Holy Trinity church, Hatton. 15th century tower. Rest of church rebuilt in the 19th century.
Yet more rain this afternoon. If it carries on for another week as forecast I may a) have grown gills and b) built an ark
Here the river Avon at Bubbenhall has burst its banks 👇
Thought I was voting for change in the last election. Instead I've got another unstable government but this time with an added dose of authoritarianism and tied umbilically to Tony Blair.
This week’s listening: “Waiting for the Sun” – The Doors. To lure the sun back, we should make like the ancestors & build wicker men. Bung a sacrifice* in, fire up the wicker, and bingo! sunshine! #music
*vegan alternatives optional
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUI-...
Coventry's old cathedral of St Michael.
I took this a few years ago but thought it fitted with the bleak greyness of a February day.