Hookland 7/5/21 2:14:22

Why does England have so many ruins? Laziness or reverent hoarding of history? Undoubtedly so. Yet there is more to it. We English use our ruins to store stories, to anchor our folklore in the landscape. They are beacons for navigating legend. – #CLNolan #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/26xi7W8KvO

Hookland 7/5/21 4:22:44

Cloud-telling or nephomancy – divination by cloud – is one of Hookland‰Ûªs most popular forms of seeing into the future. This formation is known as ‰Û÷the watching angels‰Ûª and is meant to augur either unwanted scrutiny or protection by higher powers. https://t.co/RbJyP4Jj1I

Hookland 7/5/21 5:07:01

Newsroom of the Coreham Chronicle is like most newspaper offices. Constant static of typewriter keys being struck; mild swearing punctuated by ringing phones. A smog of cigarette smoked and sweated out booze. The one difference, the monster of the week wall. – Phoebe Ash, 1979

Hookland 7/5/21 16:22:05

Fist fights have broken out between ornithologists and Marsh Ape hunters over the use of the bird-watching hides looking out onto the Restal Wastes from the Ladespill Nature Reserve. – Phoebe Ash, Coreham Chronicle, 1979 https://t.co/YgLH4LYIGM