At least one.

Cursed houses are very much the spirit of Salisbury Plain.

Like Marble Arch, the Wellington Arch was also repositioned, though not as dramatically, and the huge statue of the Iron Duke was replaced with the quadriga. Ceremonial London is always on the move.

Maybe the real challenge with autofiction is it makes it harder to hide the fact that you're a cunt.

One of my favourite chapters, the Chiltern Quirk.

Hand holding a book entitled the Tattooed Hills:journeys to chalk figures

Hand holding an open book turned to Chapter Eight, THE CHILTERN CROSSES AND THE WHIPSNADE WALLABIES

Delighted to have scooped up a copy of @jonwoolcott.bsky.social most recent book. I'm looking forward to reading all of it, but of course I leapt to Chapter 8.

He's done a brilliant job capturing the quirkiness of both our Chiltern chalk and of this particular archaeologist! 😜

#newbook #chalk

It’s 76 years since the world was robbed of Gerald Tyrwhitt, aka Lord Berners, who was responsible for this splendidly weird building

Don the con with a microphone in front of his meat and two veg.

Talking bollocks

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Oooh, thank you! I hope to get to Wendover on the Live! Tour (ahem) so maybe we can catch up then. In The meantime here's me yesterday..

Really looking forward to this, and talking to @ysella.bsky.social all about England's chalky strangeness.

A tremendous book (but I would say that).

And was once, I read, chalk rather than grass...

Great to see you! Thanks for coming. Marvellous Silbury 📸.

A little late evening drive-by (to be clear, here, I have pulled over into a lay-by!) after a most enjoyable talk by @jonwoolcott.bsky.social about his lovely new book, The Tattooed Hills at The White Horse Bookshop, Marlborough.

Ken's a total hero of mine. DM me your address and I'll get you a copy!

I'm so with you on this. The awful nostalgia for the 90s, itself a nostalgic, smug decade. In fact (self promo incoming), I squeeze a para on this into The Tattooed Hills (and name check The Quietus too).

It was listed on downdetector earlier, so yeah.

That brilliant book about Kurt Schwitters in the Lake District: here it is! It's still FANTASTIC. www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

Almost certainly! More news to follow on that.

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The Tattooed Hills events nearly sold out for tomorrow at White Horse Bookshop in Marlborough and Waterstones Salisbury on 30th, still a few left for Bath next Tuesday. www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...

Dorset Hillfort Map - Tess Of The Vale Map of the county of Dorset featuring all possible Iron Age hillforts found to date (2024).

#HillfortsWednesday A change this week, Roger Sewill and his pony Scarlet are on a three week trek to visit every hillfort in Dorset

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The excellent Tess of the Vale’s website has a map of these to enable you to visualise the journey

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Uxbridge though.

Thank you!

Because Eric was dissatisfied with it, it took her work as a collage artist to make it work. All about it in my book (though Wilmington is new news to me!)

Those motoring companies and the landscape...

A fine advertising campaign.

That's excellent!

Furthermore here's a similar but somewhat different approach by Tirzah Garwood, and note the people in the carriage, notably the artist herself.

This is Hill Figure Gold! The original was Wilmington, not Westbury! Honestly, this has rocked my small world.