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Fortunately they didn't have QR codes on Grimoires

4/5/2022

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Cartoon credit: Ali Solomon in The New Yorker
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Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da Batman!

3/5/2022

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It was 83 years ago this week that Batman made his debut in DC Comics.
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My Piece on Medium about No Good Deeds Going Unpunished

2/5/2022

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Next time you either collect it yourself or it goes to the tip Of course I've always been familiar with the phrase No Good Deed Goes Unpunished but I'd never really thought about it until last week. Here's what happened... We had a redundant chest freezer.

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Meanwhile on Summerisle

2/5/2022

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Of course on the Scottish island of Summerisle they celebrate MayDay/Beltane a little more energetically https://jimll.co.uk/products/stop-in-the-name-of-plod-art-print… 
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How a Bank Holiday Monday should be spent

2/5/2022

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Beltane Blessings

1/5/2022

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"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow,
don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen."
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Diary Date - for those of you in East Anglia

1/5/2022

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Food in the Swinging Sixties

28/4/2022

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Vol-au-vents – just "no" – my mother would drag them out at every opportunity. She cheated, she bought the pastry cases ready-made and kept them in a cupboard. It was like eating cardboard with a hint of mushroom flavoured wallpaper paste. It was the reason I left home at the age of 9 to join a circus.
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Billionaires & the Media

27/4/2022

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• The richest guy on the 2021 Forbes 400 owns the Washington Post


• Number 2 now owns Twitter


• Number 3 owns Facebook


• Numbers 5 and 6 started Google


• Numbers 4 and 9 started Microsoft


• Number 10 owns Bloomberg
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Me on Medium being rude to everyone

25/4/2022

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All the Stupid People

Where do they all come from - and can they please go back there! Here's my latest listicle of Stupid People who do not deserve fame: Clown Politicians with crazed toddler hairstyles- Boris Johnson and Donald Trump I'm looking at you All D-to-Z List Celebs - that's everyone from the Kardashians to the winners of the latest Britain's Got Talent/Big Brother/Everything is...

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    Curated by English barrister and Reuters correspondent turned editor, author, award-winning tech journalist, storyteller, and sometime werewolf hunter Charles Christian. He writes, he drinks tea, he knows things. This site also has links to Charles' books and the Weird Tales Show videos and podcasts.

    Descended from a motley crew of smugglers and witches, Christian was born a chime-child with a caul and grew up in a haunted medieval house by the harbourside in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough.

    ​According to folklore a caul-shrouded chime-child can't drown at sea but can see and talk to faerie folk and also has protection against spells cast by malevolent sorcerers. And yes, he was once commissioned to go on a werewolf hunt on the night of a full moon by a newspaper. Spoiler alert: he didn't find one. (Or it didn't find him.)

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