When you watch CBeeebies every morning, you just accept that the chickens in Hey Duggee star in their own telenovela in Spanish about chicken doctors and this week they went to space. Then you try to explain it to people who’ve never seen it and realise how bonkers it sounds!
One of my favourite celebrities and biggest inspirations :)
Of all the Jane Austen fan fiction I’ve read or watched (Death Comes to Pemberley was fun) The Other Bennet Sister feels by far the closest to the works of Jane Austen. Could do without the Bridgerton-esque costumes though!
That’s awesome, congratulations to her! And thank you so much for sharing the video :)
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
New at my main YouTube channel: youtu.be/b1Pm6ROntLU?...
I can’t get to the hairdressers for a little while so I did a thing 🙂 (Don’t worry, I’ll get it fixed when I get a chance! 🤣)
New at my Irish/Welsh learn with me channel :) youtu.be/Mg8fr0dJq_Q?...
Ok I know this is a bit daft, but at the age of 43 and with the help of my five year old, I have just completed a Mario game FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME EVER !!! In fact, it is the very first time I have EVER completed ANY video game!!!!! I am very excited. Please clap. 😃🥹🥹🥳🥂
Took advantage of the gorgeous weather to visit Wroxeter Roman City so I can pretend to be on holiday in Italy! 🤣
Eastercon update: It’s a good thing I brought the car today!
My Eastercon so far: Missed my train but just made it to the Opening Ceremony. Had to run out of the very first panel when husband called needing to take dog to emergency vet. Poor 5yrold thought dog was dying (dog is not dying: has pulled off a claw). Luckily then I found coffee and good friends :)
Just found out that #PhantomsFriday is a thing, so here is my latest podcast episode, featuring two different ghosts (one of them also a witch) and partly set at #Easter :) open.substack.com/pub/juliette...
Missed my train and it looks like I won’t be in time for the Opening Ceremony at Eastercon :( Should be in decent time for the rest of the afternoon though!
Watching the film version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and thinking about Sam Rockwell’s perfect trilogy of space movies in the late 90s/early noughties; Galaxy Quest, HHGTTG, and Moon. Two of the greatest space movies ever, and HHGTTG, which is just a cult classic in any form.
Yay! Looking forward to meeting you too :)
I’ll be there! 👋 Giving a talk about pre-Victorian ghost stories on Sunday evening :)
Between Sunrise on the Reaping and Z for Zachariah, my books for this year’s reading challenge are leaning way too dark at the moment. I’m in dire need of something more cheerful! Going for a Star Trek tie in novel next, that should be better…
Making a chocolate cake while wearing a cream Aran jumper went predictably badly. Have now switched to the cheap £10 knock off instead of the real Aran jumper!
This month’s short story for the Creepy Classics podcast is going to be from Laxdaela Saga, a medieval Icelandic saga - and I’m only sad I can’t get all of the glorious soap opera that is these characters’s stories into one short story!
Loki and I were out filming this month’s dog-walking vlog for Patreon today, and we got really lucky with the weather. It was so good to feel the warmth of the sun!
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Reading a book on horror literature in the ancient world and suddenly I’m learning all sorts of very technical terms for various types of cannibalism: anthropophagy, which means eating humans whether by another human or something else, and teknophagy, eating one’s own children. Aah, Greek mythology!
My latest ghost story for my Patrons is now up! This month's ghost story, The Maid near the Stones, is inspired by a story I remember my Mum telling me when I was a teenager and we were living in Kent, about the phantom hitchhiker on Blue Bell Hill.
www.patreon.com/posts/maid-n...
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Oh that would be great I’d love to watch it! :)
Loki’s and my ghost tour of Aberystwyth is all edited and available now on YouTube! youtu.be/-eydJd1JG_k
Posted in the middle of the night, as per usual these days, some thoughts on Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”! youtu.be/dPktXCUKGFQ?...
My first Patreon-only ghost story is finally up! This story was inspired by accounts from late 19th-century Welsh newspapers. I will eventually publish these 19th and 20th century stories as books/e-books, but Patrons get access to them as I write them. www.patreon.com/posts/red-an...
Books I would totally buy and read if Suzanne Collins ever feels like writing them:
- A book about Finnick’s Hunger Games
- A book about the First Quarter Quell
- Catching Fire re-told from Haymitch’s POV (how did he and Plutarch and Beetee all get back in touch?!)
- Anything about District 13