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Episode 2: The Crystal Ball, The Travelling Font and The Wooden Box of Borley Rectory ft. Michael Tanner
SOME INTERDIMENSIONAL PORTALS I HAVE COME ACROSS DURING WALKS IN THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE
When I was dragged (not as reluctantly as I pretended) on walks as a child by my parents, I often amused myself by going off into my own fantasy world: I'd look at derelict buildings and imagine the banshees and spectres who lived in there, wander off into
Photos And Some Other Things Currently On My Mind
These days, when I’m writing a book, I want to learn, I don’t want to rest too hard on anything overfamiliar, I want to challenge myself to take my writing somewhere it hasn’t gone in the past, and I want a sense of the unknown: a feeling
Writing
AN EXPANDED VERSION OF SOME NOTES I HAVE MADE ON SOME INCIDENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE
* It’s amazing, the ways all our different minds work. We give names to some of the ways but that’s just a method of attempting to stop all our different minds from being blown by the unbridled diversity at play, all the minuscule differences that mean no person can
AN EXPANDED VERSION OF SOME NOTES I HAVE MADE ON SOME INCIDENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE
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Owls, The Wire Man of Warleggan, Scarecrows and more...
Episode 1: The Wire Man of Warleggan
Welcome to the first episode of Pixie-led with Tom Cox.
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SCARECROW
Earlier this month a man called Chris sent me a photo of a wire figure nailed to a tree so I immediately asked him for map co-ordinates of its precise location. He said it was in Barleysplat Wood, which is on the steep rocky apron of Bodmin Moor, about half
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Learning To Misbehave: Some Thoughts On Two Decades Of Being Published
I have been getting a decent amount of reading done recently and one of the books I tore most ravenously through was Stet, a memoir by the long-serving and respected editor Diana Athill. Published at the dawn of the 21st century, at more or less the exact time I was
Writing
Darkening Days In Summerland: A Personal Compendium
* It doesn’t take a good detective to know why I’m feeling the way I’m feeling right now but, let's face it, I’ve never been anywhere even close to being a good detective; the nearest I get is owning a couple of unusually long coats.