A black and white landscape. Harrowed fields. A distant line of trees show their wooden bones to the horizon. A harsh hedge is border.
Some hold to the misguided belief farmland does not sing to the witch. They fetishize ferality to the point they exclude the truth that every place has it songs. Fields sing of what is buried below, sing of libation thirst. Their tangled borders are spirit trap. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky
even displaced spacemen need a loo
Science News from research organizations Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing - Colonies surged 15-fold A lab-made diet supercharged bee colonies and could help save our food supply. Date: March 27, 2026 Source: University of Oxford Summary: Scientists have developed a breakthrough "superfood" for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled tri-als, colonies fed this specially designed diet produced up to 15 times more young, showing a dramatic boost in reproduction and overall health. As climate change and modern agriculture reduce the availability of natural pollen, this innovation could offer a practical way to support struggling bee populations.
Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎
Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23.
She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24.
Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method."
It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.
Very glad to see you back!
Crossing my fingers it becomes available outside of the UK eventually. Loved Detectorists, especially the time slippy bits.
Ghost Portals Operational
I know it's hard for people who never heard The Hum to understand what we Pylon People were about. Transmission towers were our temporary temples. The wires charted the electric ley of the land. We marched under them and heard wonders. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
The Dunnock, also commonly called the Hedge Sparrow is one of our most beautiful songsters.
Dunnock seen at South Stack RSPB a few days ago in Wales for #BirdsSeenIn2026
#Paintings on Antique Navigational Tools Are a Poetic Nod to #Bird Migration by Steeven Salvat #art #birdmigration
Link for more photos and information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/stee...
a border consisting of a power pylon, blackberry brambles, a broken moon, threads, buttons and ash keys. Pencil drawing with colour applied.
One foot always in Hookland. Sometimes two.
Hotel lobby in DC, 12 years ago. Those holes in the backs of the chairs creeped me out profoundly.
May you find rest and peace dear @HooklandGuide in these days between old and new, and thankyou for all you do to make the County a home for all travellers of the less trodden paths
The holly tree stands in front of a wall on a grey, snowy winter morning, with open countryside behind it
“In the holly tree, which is rich with red berries, fieldfares, redwings, and mistle-thrushes are busy feeding”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)
Day 19 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. Time for modernist ornaments. We take the chain of electrical pylons from box, the silver wires between them pulled tight. Under them we scatter repurposed dolls and action figures into a march of ragged walkers, Children of The Hum.
Hookland is a deliberate re-wilding of folklore, but it is also an act of reminding people that you only have to scratch in the right places to reveal yourself as an animist, a knower of scarelore and someone whose immunity to the strange is a lot less complete than imagined.
large owl, talons clasped on what might be a branch or wires. Two stylized pylons in the background.. The owl is rendered in neon shades of orange, red, pink and purple. Pylons white in front of black. Mixed media, Maria Strutz and Phil Hine
Queen of Owls, as seen through the eyes of Trippy Pete, Child of the Hum.
Mixed media image by myself and @philh.bsky.social
@hookland.bsky.social 🖤 #OwlishMonday
Static + voices = peak Hookland chills
People ask why I followed The Hum wanting trite answers about a disaffected youth looking for direction. Walking The Hum pylon-to-pylon gave me spiritual direction, but no-one wants to hear about my devotional relationship to the land's electric leys. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
May peace and relief find you David x
A scene full of intense autumnal colour, looking towards distant hills and crags with foreground of river and a farmstead
Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
Four cats in the window of a narrowboat. An orange and white one, two black and white ones and a tortoiseshell and white one. Possibly dad, mum & two kittens.
I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
I hope you find what you're looking for.
I also hope you someday own a haunted cottage that floats through mossy forests under starlit skies, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.
Those talking openly about witchery often focus on the active aspects – possibly because they like telling people what to do. There's a neglect of passive enchantments, those parts of witchery where we listen, where we commune with the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
Memory unlocked of 1970s gaudy souvenir map handkerchief of New Zealand
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails”
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
The young starlings are pictured feeding on late blackberries
“The starlings in this picture are at the halfway stage between their juvenile and adult plumage”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
‘What to Look for in Autumn’ (1960)
An elaborate spray of midsummer flowers frame of view through wheat fields towards an expansive landscape. The wheat has been harvested and stands in stooks while on the hill a white windmill turns under a sunny sky.
Other work of the Ladybird artists. Shell Guide, 1955.
‘August’
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder