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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey so it’s our anniversary today. We’ve been together for thirty years. Here’s a pic of us in 1996 and a rather more recent one from the other year.

Ollie in a checked shirt and ponytail, holding a pint. I have a blonde bob and very straight teeth. I also have green nail varnish and a pint. Check that 90s choker. He’s 22 and I’m 24, we’re in the White Hart.

A rather plumper version of both of us, taken in Blakeney in 2024. We both have sunglasses, Ollie has a hat and a yellow floral shirt.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We went to Southampton City Art Gallery! It was great!

Donald Hamilton Fraser

Beach with Cloud Banks and Cliffs (1955)

William Scott

Kitchen Still Life (1948)

Ford Madox Brown

Detail (Goneril and Regan) Cordelia’s Portion (1867-75)

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also, I talked about this the other day, but I was absolutely terrified by this book cover when I was three or so.

It's the Chinese Bell Murders by Robert van Gulik, again. A skeleton with rotten clothes gone to rags is trapped under a large bell.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

don't forget, though - people are idiots.

the famous one star review of Pride and Prej -'just a bunch of people going to each other's houses'

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ollie went to the auction and bought a ‘model catalogue’ in case you want to pay someone 10 guineas an hour to advertise frocks in 1968.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had a dream last night that @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social showed me a large papier-maché cow he‘d made. It was based on the one in this picture. It was a bit of an odd shape because it was foreshortened to match the pic. It was in a cardboard box and orange cat Jim was asleep on its back. #cowinabox

A Tom Cox photo of a cow in front of a tower-like building in a field of buttercups

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This sounds more practical than your desire for the forbidden bear.

It's the delicious amber bear amulet, c. 3000 years old, found in Poland.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We did a whole section on pamphlets and printing when studying the Civil War at A Level and I really enjoyed the type (and illustrations).

A Great and Bloody Fight at Colchester (1648)

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought your original post was a response to the one above and honestly it totally made sense.

A screenshot of my timeline. A post about mac n cheese flavour soda (?!!) is followed by a post by Derek about having a panic attack.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(I used to have to hold books with scary covers by the edges so my fingers didn't touch the e.g. Screaming Skull or that skeleton under a bell on the Judge Dee book.)

A bad scan of a Panther edition of The Chinese Bell Murders by Robert van Gulik. A skeleton in rags is trapped beneath the bell.

My dad had this edition and I associate the frisson of looking at it with the house we lived in until I was four, I must have taken it down from the shelf myself as my parents were quite careful about this sort of thing.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Went to Swinside. Such a beautiful place, even if there was a big old bull in the field. #dailymegalith

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is it a pothole or a dinosaur footprint?? 🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saw this in an antiques shop earlier. Apparently Royal Doulton did various plates etc. in a Bazzy Tap (thanks to @florencehrscott.bsky.social for that abbreviation) style in the early 20th century.

A ‘baby’s plate’ with a scene from the Bayeaux Tapestry on it. Martial!

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We’re away in the Lakes with my family cos my mum will be 80 later in the week. Had a pootle about in Bowness this morning. Here are my folks and some Windermere snaps. It’s a funny sort of place. Absolutely heaving with tourists. (Including us, obvs.)

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are various ‘beach houses’ there, mostly kind of ramshackle and rather charming. In the book, protagonists Thea and Edward spend the day somewhere rather similar, at Edward’s beach house, aka The Shed.

a black-roofed single storey building on a beach

a beach house with large windows and a black roof

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here he is in something I dunno, 14th century. We were in a chateau. He spent twenty minutes talking to the room guide and D&D before I took this photo.

Ollie, a white, middle-aged bearded man wearing a white shirt with birds on and a hat made of burgundy felt with a round crown and two longer pieces of fabric hanging down over his shoulder. It's medieval but I'm not 100% sure of the exact period. He looks perfectly normal, like he could probably wear it in the street.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

These were the pics in the post, so they'd probably love your work. OR WOULD THEY. #youngwimminwithnovestson

carved memorial in slate with skulls and winged hourglass and so forth. from 1649. In St Mary the Virgin, Chiddingstone, Kent

detail of winged hourglass

carved memorial in slate from 1649. In St Mary the Virgin, Chiddingstone, Kent

detail of laurel-crowned skull

carved memorial in slate from 1649. In St Mary the Virgin, Chiddingstone, Kent

second laurel-crowned skull detail

carved memorial in slate from 1649. In St Mary the Virgin, Chiddingstone, Kent

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#DailyMegalith #StandingStoneSunday Ollie at the menhir de Kermaillard, aka Skalehir or the Motte de Beurre ('the butter mound'). This was fallen, re-erected in 1988. nr #Sarzeay #Morbihan #Brittany #France (2022)

A hot day, scorched grass, Ollie (a white middle-aged man with a beard and a straw hat) stands in the shade of a large menhir. It's about 13ft tall I guess and chunky. It was so incredibly hot we only stayed about five minutes.

The interpretation board for the stone, which tells you various things in French, Breton, and English. For example, the stone is more than five mteres tall including what's underground. It has various carvings on the surface (these were very hard to see when we went) and it's very definitely phallic if you look at it from the correct angle.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Look at this horseshit. (I've blurred the text as it's a job i'm doing.) Word somehow doesn't understand that this is dialogue. This was never a problem before, what the fuck have they done to it? (Again, I don't need advice, I'm merely venting.)

A screenshot from a Word document. The grammar check has flagged the end of a sentence "... is a deserter." suggesting that we don't need two punctuation marks. So it's saying that because we have a period we don't need to close the speech marks, or alternatively, because we have speech marks we don't need the full stop.

I can't tell you how angry this makes me.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s fig-tastic here at the moment. Picked these earlier and made a Turkish yoghurt and fig cake. (I only used three of them. I had two for breakfast as well.)

A plastic tub of figs. There are eleven figs in the tub.

Fig cake from above. It’s very light batter, and tastes a bit like a cheese cake. It’s in a spring form tin with a paper collar.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dahlia number four. This is Hillcrest Suffusion, I think. It is much pinker and yellower than the pics on the site I bought it from. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #flowerreport

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Some good rust and lichen in the car park at Bay Coffee Roasters in Carmarthen.

Rust and peeling paint and damaged reflective sticker on a gate

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yeah, we had a great time as always! Saw some excellent nonsense.

A horrid Wedgwood commemorative plate with the Queen Mum on it

Meakin ‘country life’ china which has fishermen and huntsmen on it

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Went to the shop at Carmarthen tip and bought this amazing tea towel for a pound.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Even though we do not require more mid-century meat plates and tureens, Ollie went to the chazza and found these, Royal Doulton ‘Lynn’ pattern. They’re from c.1930 but I think they look very ‘60s does 30s’ which is nice. £8 each.

Lynn is a cream coloured china pattern with a large sort of foliate design in green and gold

The edge of a meat plate, and a tureen from the side, on a bright blue bistro table in our garden

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We opened our GCSE results up The Monument. Here's a pic. The plan was to discover our degree results in Red Square but obviously we all graduated in different years (due to our A Level results LOL).

My friend M and me looking v young with box-dyed black hair and punk rock badges. We are at the top of the Monument, which is a memorial to the Great Fire of London. We have just opened our GCSE results. Hers, great; mine, entirely adequate.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You can see why I‘m a writer not an artist.

Fan art of Cassie Iscariot from Branson Reese‘s Swan Boy comic

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My friend was at the RAH for one of the nights immortalised here - I thought that was tremendously cool (being much too young myself hem hem).

The cover of the video cassette for Nocturne, the Siouxsie and the Banshees live concert from 1983, filmed at the Royal Albert Hall.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#vinylproject I probably haven’t listened to this in thirty years; isn’t it strange how lyrics live in a special place in your brain?

The cover of All of This and Nothing, a ‘greatest hits’ of The Psychedelic Furs. Yes it does have Pretty in Pink on it.

Back cover with some ‘text about the band’ by Steve Sutherland, which must have been quite an old-fashioned concept in 1988

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#vinylproject We’re listening to this and I assume we’re the only people in the country currently doing so. I don’t know where this came from, it doesn’t seem like my parents’ taste but I guess he was pretty ubiquitous.

The cover of A Touch of Velvet by Jim Reeves

The back cover of a Touch of Velvet. It’s an RCA INTERNATIONAL album so the back has ads for others in the same series, including Glenn Miller (Best of) and Diana by Paul Anka

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Second dahlia. #flowerreport. I can’t remember the variety which is annoying.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I often take 'accidental' photos of my fingers/hand when I'm using my phone to take pictures. I usually delete them. When I was looking for a megalith pic earlier I found this work of genius.

An iPhone image of my fingers, very close to the lens and blurred. Between them is an excellent shot of Ollie's foot in a brown Converse boot. His shirt, a dark print with orangey red roses, can also be seen top left. This shot would be impossible to recreate I reckon.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#DailyMegalith #standingstonesunday Ollie at the Menhirs de Kernars, #Saint-Barthélemy #Morbihan #Brittany #France (2022) These are granite, the one on the right is c. 4.2m, the other one is 3.2m 🏺

A fine September afternoon. The sky is blue with smooth and dappled clouds. Two stones in a harvested field, one with a tree growing right beside it. Ollie stands between them with his arms raised, he's wearing a dark floral shirt, shorts, and a straw hat.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#vinylproject now we’re listening to this. Like all my Stones records, this belonged to my first boss, who gave me all her LPs when she retired. It’s a first pressing, I imagine she bought it the day it was released. She worked for Heinemann in those days.

The cover of Beggars Banquet by the Rolling Stones. It’s designed to look like a fancy invitation

The back of Beggars Banquet with the track listing

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Now the sport is over for ten minutes we’re back on our #vinylproject bullshit. I’ve never played this and I’m not 100% certain where it came from tbh. It’s in absolutely pristine condition though.

The back cover of True Stories by Talking Heads

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@matwinser.bsky.social shared a post earlier about 'terrible things you've seen in a holiday cottage'. I couldn't respond or quote the original post but obviously you all need to see a few things from a place we stayed in 2013. It was absolutely rammed with decorative nonsense.

A glass topped coffee table. the frame is like the ribs of a boat. There's a plush cat sitting on it, and a rope macrame mat thing

The painting over our bed. We called it 'The Tit Lady'. It's a woman with a weird headress, it's slightly spooky, she's topless (the picture only goes down to her tits).

a wooden bar stool shaped like a whale's tail. It's in the kitchen, at the 'breakfast bar' - it was in the way all the time because it's massive. There's a normal bar stool next to it.

A fishing net with life buoy and dangling fisherman. It's attached to the wall in one of the bedrooms. It's kind of like something you might get in a sea side pub if the owners were that way inclined.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just had an unsolicited email from a company 'launching a new writing app' - they 'want my feedback' apparently. Looked them up. It's these fuckers. 'protect fiction IP through the blockchain' eh? I like to protect my IP through copyright law, although some fuckers feel that's passe apparently.

screen shot of the LinkedIn page for creader.io 'a startup that aims to protect fiction IP by applying blockchain technology' blah blah

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

#dailymegalith #tombtuesday Allée couverte du Prieuré aka Roh-Prioldi Allée Couverte or Roc'h-Prioldi nr #Baud #Morbihan #Brittany #France (2022) 🏺#Neolithic

Mossy rocks, the collapsed structure of an allee couverte, leading to a steeply angled capstone. The burial chamber is in a little wooded clearing, sunshine falling through the leaves of the trees. It's a hot, airless September day.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The 2026 World Cup Wall Scroll is almost complete. We had to sweep the path to take this picture, so I hope you all appreciate it. (@noscoredraws.com)

A B&W pic of Ollie's world cup scroll laid out on the path outside our house. You can see a drain cover and various plant pots as well as the hedge and several metres of chart.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Is the LINING OF HIS JACKET the Vice Presidential seal? Good grief. @dieworkwear.bsky.social do you have an opinion about this sort of behaviour??

Is's everyone's favourite [REDACTED] JD Vance waving. He's wearing a blue suit and a blue tie. His jacket has a Stars 'n' Stripes lapel pin and the lining appears to be a repeat pattern of the Vice Presidential seal.

This seems extremely vulgar to me but what do I know.

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Jack O’ Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I love agapanthus. This is the best year ever for mine. They’re in pots and I’ve had the Navy Blues for maybe… eight or ten years. The Black Jack is the perfect colour, that one’s only a couple of years old so I hope will have more flowers next year. Bonus unnamed pelargoniums. #gardensky

Black Jack (which is dark purple) agapanthus

Some nice dark pink trailing pels. (And a white one.)These lived a dry and crispy life in the study over winter so well done to them.

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