A black and white illustration inspired by Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black. A woman in late Victorian mourning stands in a graveyard in a flat desolate landscape. There are two stone pillars in the foreground.

An illustration of the ghost of a woman in a dress of the mid to late Georgian era with a sort of skeletal face. She is stood / hovering in front of a detached Georgian house in the dusk, flanked by dark trees, with its front door lit from above.

A print of a black and white illustration inspired by John Masefield's novel the Box of Delights: a bearded man with a heavy pack trudges through snow pursued by wolves. There's a big white house in the distance, and a small aeroplane (in fact a car-o-plane) in the sky. The scene is flanked by trees and emerges from a square box. The face of its beholder is just visible.

A ridiculous black and white illustration (in print form) of worshippers dancing around a ceremonial bonfire in the trees. The flames take the shape of a large cat's head.

Hello! I've been a bit preoccupied lately with real life and stuff but I've finally put a bit of effort into my Etsy shop... added new prints and restocked old ones. Do have a look. Sharing much appreciated. Thank you.

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A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Help Save Leicestershire’s Bronze Age Torc The Leicestershire Torc is a stunning 3,200-year-old gold object dating to the Middle Bronze Age period and is the only torc ever discovered in the county. It was a piece of very high-status jewellery...

Another one.

This is a really important find - unique in fact. It has slight similarities to a torc from Moulsford (in Reading Museum) but apart from that it's a totally new type. 🧵

PLEASE SHARE, thank you

#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting

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We are community or we are less. We are engines of kindness and connectivity or we are less. When decency is framed as a radical position we must remain who we are. Our resistance is also in refusing to be less openhearted and filled with compassion.

The Snowshoe Hare had received a telegram from Dorset in England. He read it inside the warmth of a coffee shop, before joining the crowds again, he read it with tears stinging his eyes, he read it listening to shouts and distant gun shots, he read it with a fierce anger rising inside, he read it whilst his heart ached inside his chest, and then he folded the thin paper into a talisman to keep it safe. And he spoke the words aloud: "We are with you. England is with you. Europe is with you. History is with you. We are all Minnesotans until every last one of you is safe, until goodness and kindness prevails. – Old Fox."

Goodnight Hookland

Best gardening advice ever. Good point about blood, fish and bone- there are alternative sources!

🍀🎄🍀If taking down the Christmas decorations feels sad, wait until Old Twelfth Night on 17th January, or Candlemas on 2nd February -both traditional days- to keep your home bright and cheerful for a little longer!
#FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #TwelfthNight

Dogs are the best. They bring love and joy (and havoc!)

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

You spectacularly generous people have raised £13k so far. We have a beyond-excited three year old likely to wake us at 5am, so it’s an early night here. I’ll have to catch up with the pix in the morning ♥️ #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

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FINANCIAL TIMES I was amused - and saddened - to read the latest instalment of the Brexiters' excuses for the poor performance over recent years of the UK economy and the UK's politics. In "Implementation of Brexit became a business fiasco" (Markets Insight, December 19), Paul Marshall acknowledges the cost of the UK's decision to leave the EU. But rather than acknowledge that his analysis was wrong - cutting ties with your biggest trading partner is never a good idea - Marshall blames bad implementation, and the fact that the EU didn't cut the UK some slack.

Implementation of Brexit by the UK has indeed been poor, but that's a direct consequence of the political crisis that everyone should have expected following such a major decision on the back of one simple 52/48 referendum vote at the conclusion of a mind-bogglingly uninformed debate by both sides. That includes the Brexiters' naive insistence that the EU would bend to UK demands and grant it all sorts of privileges not enjoyed by others. So, the roughly 8 per cent of GDP loss in UK output since the Brexit decision in 2016 is easily explained by three perfectly predictable factors: it was a bad economic decision; it has split UK society politically; and the EU27 has moved on.

It's time for those who led the UK down this disastrous path to stand up and acknowledge their wrong analysis and naive understanding of Europe. Until that happens, how can one even hope that the UK will begin to heal? Erik Fossing Nielsen Senior Adviser, Independent Economics (a London-based economics advisory firm); Former Chief Economist, UniCredit, and Former Chief European Economist, Goldman Sachs, Berlin, Germany

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

Ronsak, an ancient oak in the Shropshire landscape. The hollow trunk is surrounded by green fields. In the distance the winter sun starts to set - photo taken a few days ago.

Happy #WinterSolstice Wishing festive fun and winter magic for all!

Brilliant coverage of the solstice at #NewgrangeSolstice. Wonderful

"Have a swingin' pagan solstice"
The Simpsons
#WinterSolstice

Han Solo, Princess Leia, C-3PO and Chewie, looking shocked in the forest on Endor

Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France The 120 metre wall was either a fish-trap or a dyke for protection against rising sea-levels, archeologists believe.

Wow, “French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC”.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looks very cozy ❤️

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Cones, sycamore keys, dried berries, acorns & their caps, seedheads & lichen twigs arranged on a white background. Hidden in the photo is a tiny deer stag for you to find.

My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find.
Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌

Large oak surrounded by grass, next to a wire fence and wooden posts. On the right you can see the green field beyond. On the left, a smaller bush and a pathway leading up the hill. There are more trees and some blue sky in the background on the right. Photo taken in October.

Good Morning and Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday all!

Sending healing prayers and winter magics to banish the pain

Large trunk of an oak tree, with moss on the lower trunk and grass around the roots. A wooden fence is seen to the left of the trunk. Behind are hedges either side of a road. The sun is out as this photo was taken in early October, near Church Stretton in Shropshire

Happy#thicktrunktuesday to you all! An oak enjoying the sunshine last month.

It was exactly ten days from Wolf's birthday on the 23rd November, and, as usual, he had spent many blissful hours in the High attic inscribing a long and complicated list of wished-for presents. He'd gathered together all the home catalogues in the cottage, enormous tomes from every corner of London including the Army & Navy Stores, Marshall & Snelgrove, Derry & Toms, Harrods, Fortnum's, Robinson & Cleaver, Liberty's and Druce & Co of Baker Street. In each book, he ringed possibilities with a fiery red Roché pastel, folded corners and placed dozens of newspaper bookmarks. When he finally finished, he presented the tall pile & his three-page list to Old Fox, who had the unenviable task of sorting through it all to find a reasonable & balanced selection, which could also be ordered in time.

BBC Two - Autumnwatch, 2020, Episode 3, 5 simple ways: Nature can help your mood Emma Mitchell guides us through a natural take on wellbeing this Autumn.

If you’re daunted by the prospect of late autumn & winter & are able to get outside, here’s a film I made for @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social with 5 scientifically proven nature-based tips to alleviate anxiety & lift your mood 🌿🧠:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Vintage Halloween card BEWARE! THE TIME IS HERE IN WHICH THE WITCHES DO APPEAR. A woman with blonde hair in a blue dress peers around a grandfather clock with ALL HALLOWEEN as the numbers on the clock and a pumpkin as the pendulum. Also a black cat leans around the other side of the clock with the shadow of a witch.

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

This is a photograph of a cardboard box full of greeting cards. Most of them are linocut designs and are in packs tied with twine.

I've had a productive day and am very pleased to have a lovely box full of cards ready to deliver to a local shop tomorrow.

PS It would be silly not to mention that the designs are also all available on Etsy in the UK! 😁
#greetingcards #shopindie #EtsyUK

www.etsy.com/shop/SarahRo...

Just so beautiful Tamsin