News article screenshot, headline "Archaeologists dig underneath a Medieval castle to find a lost nuclear bunker", with a photo of a ruined castle against a cloudy blue sky

Broken Veil

Screenshot from parliament website about workplace compensation. Title reads "What is workplace compensation?" with text below reading "Workplace compensation is a mechanism for providing money-based and medical care-based compensation to the victims of injuries sustained in their daily working lives."

Six years monitoring the snooker for work has turned me into a fan of the game

Hahaha - they were quite simply the only words I could find!

Large advertising statue of a cone of chips with a face, eating a chip. This one is missing an arm, and a strange melted orange liquid crust has formed over some of his head chips.

Saw an even more nightmarish chip cone man in Leuven a few years back...

Screenshot of Facebook nostalgia post showing four images of Trudie Goodwin as Sgt June Ackland (spelt Auckland here) in TV programme The Bill. The caption reads "Trudie Goodwin broke records playing her character June Auckland [sic] in The Bill." The four images of her in the role are each dated with a year - in reverse order they are 2007, 1999, 1992 and 1084, a typo of what should be 1984. The inference therefore being she has been in the role since Norman times.

One of precious few Norman actors still with us

Obviously huge comparisons to be made with The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, but it's *just* about different enough (for now). Could have distanced itself more if Heard hadn't named the villainous Canon's sister Laetitia

My hand holding the The Black Fox by Gerald Heard, a British Library Tales of the Weird release

Finally enjoying this after about 130 pages. Not sure if that's a recommendation, but stick with it

Reminds me of watching You Only Live Twice with my dad, who was very critical of the notion that Blofeld could have a fireplace in the centre of a volcano

Picture of a wirrn model/action figure from Doctor Who story The Ark in Space, part of a new wave of Doctor Who figure releases. It is essentially a green caterpillar-like blob

Action figure of me being released

Title card for BBC Play for Today 'Edna, the Inebriate Woman'. The title is in big white capital letters over an image of Edna from behind, with coat and hat on

Edna, the Inebriate Woman is being repeated on BBC4 on Weds 29 April at 10pm

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Can't wait to read it :)

Wild horses couldn't stop me from getting that whistle

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Title card for BBC Play for Today 'Edna, the Inebriate Woman'. The title is in big white capital letters over an image of Edna from behind, with coat and hat on

Edna, the Inebriate Woman is being repeated on BBC4 on Weds 29 April at 10pm

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"Ha! Yeah! Hershey's is rubbish! Not like good old British chocolate!"

*Bites into a bar of Cadbury's palm oil*

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Probably would have enjoyed it even more had I not known about the ending, but then the only reason I watched it was because of knowing about the ending. The paradox of spoilers.

That's not to say it *isn't* Lovecraftian - I don't know, I haven't read much of his stuff. It's just one of those phrases that gets bandied around a lot online. Maybe it's actually Machenian? Or Blackwoodian?

Poster for British horror movie The Borderlands (2013), showing a strange crooked church tower amidst dark swirling clouds

Watched The Borderlands. Enjoyed it very much. Read some online criticism and took a shot every time I saw the word "Lovecraftian". Woke up three days later.

Meanwhile, in the UK:

Screenshot of an Instagram reel of two blokes (one of them that vsauce fella?) looking at an experiment in which three balls travel down three tracks, one straight and the others curved. The caption reads 'The fastest route between 2 points is not a straight line, but a curve called: "Brachistochrone curve"'. The joke is a reference to a Doctor Who quote said by the Third Doctor in The Time Warrior: "Brigadier, a straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting."

Isn't that a Third Doctor quote?

A grove of gnarled wild yew trees, all packed together, all shooting off wildly. It looks very mystical.

Look at that ffs, that's some druid shit right there

A many pronged wild yew tree in a forest, its trunks and branches shooting off in various angles and directions. No idea of its age, but there were several venerable specimens nearby.

Close-up of one of the branches of the yew tree in the previous photo. Hanging on the branch is a downward facing metal horseshoe, rusted with age. No idea how long it has been there.

Spent the day exploring ancient yew groves around Herefordshire. Some magnificent specimens, including this one in Coneygree Wood above Ledbury. Felt a strange magical thrill to see that someone has hung a horseshoe on it.

Stone relief carving of a woman in flowing gown holding a bushel of wheat above her head. Holes have been drilled in her eyes, which give them a frightening intensity as she looks to the left of camera, and to whoever might stand in front of her. She can be found in the churchyard of Eastnor Church, Herefordshire, on a large stone corner bench surrounded by similar cravings with lines from psalms beneath (not pictured). The joke is she's some Wicker Man-esque pagan goddess who demands sacrifice for a bountiful harvest.

If she looks you in the eye you're the next sacrifice

A many pronged wild yew tree in a forest, its trunks and branches shooting off in various angles and directions. No idea of its age, but there were several venerable specimens nearby.

Close-up of one of the branches of the yew tree in the previous photo. Hanging on the branch is a downward facing metal horseshoe, rusted with age. No idea how long it has been there.

Spent the day exploring ancient yew groves around Herefordshire. Some magnificent specimens, including this one in Coneygree Wood above Ledbury. Felt a strange magical thrill to see that someone has hung a horseshoe on it.

Angela Pleasence as Elizabeth I from Doctor Who story The Shakespeare Code

I'd also be a rubbish Doctor Who fan if I didn't tip my hat to her Elizabeth I

Photo of actor Angela Pleasence in Symptoms (1974), sitting by a lake in the thickest knit brown cardigan I've ever seen.

RIP Angela Pleasence.
Was thinking only today I needed to rewatch Symptoms, and I shall now make it a priority.

Later programme-makers looked at stuff like this and really thought it would be improved by having some presenter yammering away the whole time, having to have a go etc.

1977: The Art of Stained Glass Windows | In The Making | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

A thoroughly relaxing thing to watch on a lunch break

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