Hookland 2/10/20 21:21:28

@stef18881 As a moved around, farmed out child, as a child brought up to play the game of hiding from the Germans‰Ûª every time a debt collector called, those were my places of power, of sanctuary.

Hookland 2/10/20 21:24:21

@stef18881 Of all the snark and sniding that Hookland has gotten lately, the bit that pisses me off is being told it‰Ûªs middle class‰Ûª. It comes from a marginalised childhood. It is as working class as I am. As if the working class don‰Ûªt have an interest in folklore, in place.

Hookland 2/10/20 23:21:27

The ghost trains of Hookland – whether steam wraiths or phantom diesels heading down the track to disaster – seem to keep a better timetable than British Rail does. – George Kindred, ‘Hookland Hauntings’, 1970 https://t.co/hzpvDnef1g