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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm sorry - there's a difference?

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Goodnight from the phantoms stuck in the cells below Coreham Crown Court, bemoaning their contemptible state of waiting upon judgement. Goodnight from Eleanor Merril, looking for tide-gifted Blood Lace blooms in the moonlit rock pools of Clinker Cove. Goodnight from Hookland.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Witchcraft is not consolatory hokum. It doesn't offer tepid answers to hard questions and even harsher circumstances. It offers us relationships with the land, its spirits and ourselves. Relationships may be rough and require work, but they get us through. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Re-introducing a Hookland childhood nightmare/beloved icon. Mr. Lookout – the ghost bear mascot of the Hookland Tourist Board's 'I-See! series of books'. The scarrer of many a child's imaginations as depicted by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. #MrLookout #Hookland

A ghost bear. A big, fat ghost bear. Wearing spectacles, holding what appears to be a bone wand. Trust me, it is one scary bear. The text says: Mr. Lookout

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Wait five years then introduce him or her to Kafka.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bertie Wooster: This new radio makes it sound exactly as though there's a complete orchestra in this living-room. Jeeves: Won't that make it feel a little crowded, sir?

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Goodnight from High-on-the-Hill Farm, where the Trigg family are enjoying a stubble-goose feast after having paid their quarter day tribute to Faery. Goodnight from Ralph Shenwood calling on the Archangels for strength to resist answering the Hoarse Hag’s call. Goodnight from Hookland.

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There's a street in Hull, England, called Land of Green Ginger. And no-one knows why.

If any of my stories was read by someone who wasn't an idiosyncrat, I would be profoundly offended.

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A Karen is a very specific type of cunt. Not every cunt wants to see the manager.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Goodnight from Charlie Hazelgrove, sitting on the deck of the Narrow Escape and listening out for the telltale tuck-tuck-tuck of a black-lanterned canal boat in hopes of procuring certain illicit goods. Goodnight from Lizzie Pecksmith, waiting for the voices to arrive. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Morning, Mrs Ber-Ber-Bluett.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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We were pylon pilgrims. Each transmission tower a sacred destination in the electric ley of the land. The Hum called us to walk to them, to move under their steel legs and into our temporary temples. We marched lines of electrical ecstasy. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH

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"When you are ready to part with a book..." I don't think I've ever experienced that feeling. I'm with Anthony Powell: Books do furnish a room. I wish I had a bigger room, though.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been doing the read-all-the-unread-books-on-my-shelves thing for years. Without getting anywhere. The problem is that I keep buying books.

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Railway workers report the signal box at Lugford as haunted. Talk of a constant presence, of being scrutinised as they work. Talk of objects being moved, levers being pulled. Odd voices down the line. A place not haunted by dread, but by unwelcome intrusion. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

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Madley is one of those villages where you have to generously apply the car’s horn to scatter clouds of chickens and children from the road. There’s always a bollock-naked drunk in the gutter, always an effigy on the green. Even by Hookland standards, it has a loose grip on reality. - #DICallaghan

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G K Lomax @gklomax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gavotte and Rondo. A cover of Mozart's Rondo a la Turka by Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Goodnight from Madley’s village hall, where the Lord and Lady of the Fields are not the most drunk folk at a harvest supper lurching towards riot. Goodnight from Leah Blundell, fervently saying pagan prayers under the light of a Corn Maiden Moon. Goodnight from Hookland.

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G K Lomax @gklomax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Protect this man at all costs.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social

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G K Lomax @gklomax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Currently reading four. I take issue with Alex, though. "Reading" and "Audiobook" simply don't belong in the same sentence. Commuting? I never leave home without at least one actual book. E-books? I suppose you do actually read them, but they're not real books.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Let us walk the woods as feral possibility space. Let us walk the woods in hope of strange sights, fantastical encounters. Stories we can tell to those we love as an intimate folklore of hope that wonder is still abroad. That we still have places of constant magic. – #DAKilroy

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G K Lomax @gklomax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We clearly differ in our definitions of "Leftist." And, indeed, "Nonsense." Wonderful talk, anyway. But if both your talks this year have been completely sold out, maybe a bigger venue next time? And a lectern.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Goodnight from The Old School House at Larkspur, its new owners kept awake by phantoms reciting their time tables like an unholy invocation. Goodnight from Pip Harding, casting an unkindness on Meredith Marson for being a vile little gossipmonger. Goodnight from Hookland.

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G K Lomax @gklomax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Although, from careful experiment, I discovered that the person on the other end didn't actually hear the slam.

G K Lomax @gklomax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anybody that doesn't say Dark Side of the Moon has been living under a rock for fifty years.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Even inland, the salt-hag is tide-pulled. Gulls call her to come to shore and see the wave-polished augeries on display. Sea-seasoned winds make promises of things to be summoned at the slack. She walks to her secret cove. Her first glimpse of sea an intoxication. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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G K Lomax @gklomax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Back when I was eighteen, I'd not only have thought it, but done it.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Really love this review of 'Hookland Fragments Volume One.' I couldn't be more pleased to have caused someone to write the words: 'Slightly tainted with his leftist nonsense ...'

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Goodnight from Bill Tanner, wondering if there’s any point in ringing the police to report that there’s a giant black cube hovering above Hobble Woods. Goodnight from Kate Watson, wishing making magical inks from mushrooms didn’t stain her hands so much. Goodnight from Hookland.

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G K Lomax @gklomax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Utter nonsense. Comprehensible, maybe - though an incorrectly-placed comma can change the meaning of a sentence (Let's eat Grandma vs Let's eat, Grandma) but not correct. People who don't punctuate properly are ignorant or lazy or both.