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Sunday, 16 May 2021

Friday, 14 May 2021

Tales From The Crypt

Look what arrived in the post for me this morning :) I have been wanting to read these stories since I was a kid.

Thursday, 13 May 2021

Illustrations

 Creating some illustrations for the book of old Gower ghost stories I am working on.



Tuesday, 11 May 2021

On I plough...

Sometimes navigating a pen across a piece of paper feels like dragging an anchor through a rainforest. But, with just 94 days left to put this beast to bed, on I plough...


 

Saturday, 8 May 2021

Morning Glory (Heavenly Blue)

Look what greeted me on a grim and gloomy morning today :)


 

Friday, 7 May 2021

Thursday, 6 May 2021

Pet Cemetary

 What a lovely walk through the pet cemetery and bluebell woods 😎😎


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Sunday, 2 May 2021

ShadowMe #2

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Saturday, 1 May 2021

The Walking Dead by Guy N Smith

 Today, I finally finished reading Guy N Smith's The Walking Dead. Sadly, this highly prolific writer passed away on Christmas Eve 2020, having contracted Covid during the UK's second wave of the virus. He has left behind a rich catalogue of over 70 horror novels. Unfortunately this particular title, a sequel to his classic of the genre, The Sucking Pit, was not one of his finer works.



Thursday, 29 April 2021

Monday, 26 April 2021

Sunday, 25 April 2021

Sunday Sorted


 

Saturday, 24 April 2021

Gobble Progress...

Making good progress with this, the third of 4 interconnected festive folk horror tales. This story, titled Gobble, is an anti-carnist story about a boy determined not to let his farmer father kill his favourite turkey for Christmas...


 

Friday, 23 April 2021

Bottle Garden

A fair while ago, I found this large glass bottle looking neglected in an antiques market. £20 lighter in the pocket, I headed back home with it...


Fast forward a few years and the bottle has now found a use in my home - as a Carnie bottle garden :)





You can see more photos on the construction of this bottle garden on my Magickal Gardening site.