G K Lomax
@gklomax.bsky.social
Writer, versifier, pontificator, nerd, holder of untenable and often contradictory opinions. Fount of useless knowledge.
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Never forget: Art matters.
‘Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia’
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Never forget: Art matters.
Jimi Hendrix
What guitarist is so unique and recognizable that his or her sound or tone, might as well be “trademarked”?
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Jimi Hendrix
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Wayland’s Smithy, July 2023. #TombTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Wayland’s Smithy, July 2023. #TombTuesday
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For folk magic is often a serious of fragile truces with the land, a series of appeasements made to nature’s legion of spirits. The cunning folk are diplomats to enfolding otherworlds. Few in the Foreign Office could match their skill. - Dr. M. Benn, 1981 lecture at Woden College, Weychester
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For folk magic is often a serious of fragile truces with the land, a series of appeasements made to nature’s legion of spirits. The cunning folk are diplomats to enfolding otherworlds. Few in the Foreign Office could match their skill. - Dr. M. Benn, 1981 lecture at Woden College, Weychester
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Day 2 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We gently take the Master of Moss from box. He’s old and fragile, made from twig, clay and clumps of Moss gathered on Barrowcross. We find him a respectful place on the tree and hope he sleeps the season. His waking would be terrible
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Day 2 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We gently take the Master of Moss from box. He’s old and fragile, made from twig, clay and clumps of Moss gathered on Barrowcross. We find him a respectful place on the tree and hope he sleeps the season. His waking would be terrible
Dear Amazon -
I expected the books I bought recently to sit on my shelves for an extended period, waking me feel guilty about not having got round to reading them.
They have matched my expectations.
I expected the books I bought recently to sit on my shelves for an extended period, waking me feel guilty about not having got round to reading them.
They have matched my expectations.
Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Dear Amazon -
I expected the books I bought recently to sit on my shelves for an extended period, waking me feel guilty about not having got round to reading them.
They have matched my expectations.
I expected the books I bought recently to sit on my shelves for an extended period, waking me feel guilty about not having got round to reading them.
They have matched my expectations.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Goodnight from the Gelgrove Stitching Society, its members steadily embroidering new Woodwose legends into the village’s banner. Goodnight from Paul Watson’s darkroom, where things not seen in his viewfinder are manifesting in the developing bath. Goodnight from Hookland.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Goodnight from the Gelgrove Stitching Society, its members steadily embroidering new Woodwose legends into the village’s banner. Goodnight from Paul Watson’s darkroom, where things not seen in his viewfinder are manifesting in the developing bath. Goodnight from Hookland.
Stop calling it "Reading" and call it "Research" instead.
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Stop calling it "Reading" and call it "Research" instead.
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“You will be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits
The three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“You will be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits
The three spirits
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Casual reminder for comics fans
Please pick up a book book from time to time
Literature is good for the soul and it makes you a better more rounded comic fan 💙
Please pick up a book book from time to time
Literature is good for the soul and it makes you a better more rounded comic fan 💙
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Casual reminder for comics fans
Please pick up a book book from time to time
Literature is good for the soul and it makes you a better more rounded comic fan 💙
Please pick up a book book from time to time
Literature is good for the soul and it makes you a better more rounded comic fan 💙
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Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
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Goodnight from Jack Hurley, still taking helpful directions from his dead wife as he pushes their Vauxhall Victor F towards Burwood. Goodnight from Chas Foster, fixing newspapers to the windows of his shed so no-one can see him making illegal sprite traps. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Goodnight from Jack Hurley, still taking helpful directions from his dead wife as he pushes their Vauxhall Victor F towards Burwood. Goodnight from Chas Foster, fixing newspapers to the windows of his shed so no-one can see him making illegal sprite traps. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Barley twist because it’s possible; delightful turned railings at Denston in Suffolk, dazzling in swirling complexity.
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Barley twist because it’s possible; delightful turned railings at Denston in Suffolk, dazzling in swirling complexity.
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
It's a Wonderful Life.
Nothing else is in the conversation.
Nothing else is in the conversation.
15 years of having to watch ppl argue about whether Die Hard is the best Christmas movie when Home Alone is right there
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It's a Wonderful Life.
Nothing else is in the conversation.
Nothing else is in the conversation.
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15 years of having to watch ppl argue about whether Die Hard is the best Christmas movie when Home Alone is right there
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
15 years of having to watch ppl argue about whether Die Hard is the best Christmas movie when Home Alone is right there
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Goodnight from Morton Parish Council, where the vote to ban making promotional images of the village’s infamous Wyrm has ended in rancour and harsh curses. Goodnight from Tabitha Mantel, sure she can hear Faery clocks chiming the ninth of the hour. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Goodnight from Morton Parish Council, where the vote to ban making promotional images of the village’s infamous Wyrm has ended in rancour and harsh curses. Goodnight from Tabitha Mantel, sure she can hear Faery clocks chiming the ninth of the hour. Goodnight from Hookland.
I particularly recommend one of his last films - the appropriately-titled Swansong.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I particularly recommend one of his last films - the appropriately-titled Swansong.
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Thinking of making a horror movie about a man who keeps discovering 12-inch rulers in his home. It's a found footage film.
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thinking of making a horror movie about a man who keeps discovering 12-inch rulers in his home. It's a found footage film.
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For this #DoctorWhoDay let me just use this pic again. My latest addition to the collection and I think it's the oldest one! Found it in an Antique Shope in Knaresborough while visiting last week. Happy Day to all who celebrate.
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
For this #DoctorWhoDay let me just use this pic again. My latest addition to the collection and I think it's the oldest one! Found it in an Antique Shope in Knaresborough while visiting last week. Happy Day to all who celebrate.
Well, Plato thought everyone was wrong except him, so...
I just learned that Plato thought debates were stupid and dangerous. He wrote that debates are not about truth or philosophy, they’re about ego, pride and winning at any cost. I gotta read Plato’s Dialogues. Another reason humanities are important. They are always relevant
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Well, Plato thought everyone was wrong except him, so...
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Winter conducts its slow seduction. It has disrobed the trees, its cold kisses make them shiver. Revelation of their wooden bones offers us a new, intimate language. They speak of swelling dark and coming ice. They speak their lover's secret names. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #Winter
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Winter conducts its slow seduction. It has disrobed the trees, its cold kisses make them shiver. Revelation of their wooden bones offers us a new, intimate language. They speak of swelling dark and coming ice. They speak their lover's secret names. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #Winter
Someone's been overdoing it with the sub-clauses.
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Someone's been overdoing it with the sub-clauses.