Norther Lights over Swansea

Set for Sound

I put the last day of my holiday to good use by dragging my x2 CD shelves up to our bedroom, complete with our CD player.

It has been a nice long weekend. I have got a lot done.

Out of this World!

Lovely day off,

with another day off tomorrow. At peace 😎

A Day in the Garden!

A rare day off work combined with in ever rarer warm, sunny day. Which meant just one thing - a day in the garden!

Come In

I have finally completed the first draft of my Guy N Smith. It ended suddenly, out of the blue and took me by surprise. I just need to tidy the thing up now...

Furry Paws

Trying to work on an introduction to one of my favourite reads.

Gardening

I finally managed to clear the chicken coop from the garden today! 

Whilst I was dismantling and burning the construction, Mrs E busied herself by adding a small wildlife pond to the garden:

The oustanding plant of the moment has to be our cherry tree, both in is large and bosai forms:

Haunting Ghost Stories

I picked up this hard cover book this week for just £3.59, and that included p&p!

As well as containing some classic ghostly tales, the book contains some fascinating illustrations, in colour as well as black and white.

8th Armada Ghost Book

1973 brought another collection of spooky stories together in the form of the 8th Armada Ghost Story.

We are back to the effective scary book covers of a child being chased by a supernatural peril that were a highlight of the early books in this anthology series, Peter  Archer doing a sterling job of portraying the literary scares awaiting the reader within the title's pages.

The book's later reboot, with a pricetage of more than double of the original (darn that inflation!) sported a a cover with a direct reimagining of its predecessor's artwork. This, however,  somehow feels less powerful than its earlier incarnation.

As for the stories in the book, I think Mary Danby did a fine curator's job, with at least a handful of tales drawing in the readee with their curious titles alone:

This book stands as the centrepiece of the Armada Ghost Book's 15 volume run.