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"We are the Barley Brothers.
Ousted out of Birmingham & Wolverhampton,
Lords of the Left Hand Brain,
The shadows of odd doings follows us through the night." - M John Harrison, In Viriconium
A poster for the Gilbert & George exhibition at the Hayward Gallery
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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GOV.UK website UX designers are having a fucking laugh
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Proud to be crowdfunding for a new edition of The Night, by Alison J Carr. This uplifting illustrated novella explores a woman's journey from sexual visibility but lack of agency, through to self-possession and refusal to fear the night. Read more: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan...
Cover of The Night by Alison J Carr Drawing of The Goddess, as included in The Night by Alison J Carr Drawing of The Night, A Dream of A Choir of Talking Snails, as included in The Night by Alison J Carr Drawing of The Girl, as included in The Night by Alison J Carr
August 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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It's International Owl Awareness Day!

Lots of bog owls (AKA short-eared owls) live around us. Last year a group of 7 or 8 of them flew up from the road ahead of us. And then this happened...
August 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Can almost see Slit from our bedroom window, it's down... there!
August 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Supernatural television thriller began #SapphireAndSteel began on ITV on this day in 1979.
Worzel Gummidge & Aunt Sally
July 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Blood scream's cousin, Void Cry, lives here. Feed them currant buns, vinegar and coal.
June 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Ha, no, it was an emphatic "yes", combined with "you've got rather a lot on your plate at the moment".
Fran the tarot reader Tarot reading. Lots of staves.
June 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Another fantastic review of Crab & Bee's Matter of Britain, this time from Northern Earth magazine. Get the book here: peakrill.com/products/cra...
Photograph of the first half of a magazine review which reads: This short book has a strange allure about it. It wonderfully evokes a timeless feeling of mythic time. In these pages you will find stories of Merlin, Godiva, werewolves and Albina and her 33 sisters and the founding of Albion. But this is not just a retelling of well-known medieval legends. The first chapter, 'In the beginning was the end', starts off with a creation story involving snakes at Canley near Coventry. The final chapter neatly mirrors the first, 'In the end was the beginning', which has a strong environmental message for the future. There is a strong sense not just in this chapter, but in others, that we have drifted into the wasteland by disconnecting from the myths of the land. It's this hard to pin down essence that gives the book a dreamlike 'otherworldly' feel. There are also modern stories, which... [continued in next photo] Photograph of the second half of a magazine review which reads: ...made me think about the nature of folk tales and storytelling. I'm thinking here of the strange story of Arthur Bryant from Devon, who on 24 April 1965 claimed to have had an encounter with a UFO and its Venusian occupant who claimed to be a reincarnation of the recently departed American contactee George Adamski! Dotted throughout the text are Helen's illustrations, which although not to my taste, lend a certain feel to the haunting narrative of the stories. This is a joint project between artist Helen Billinghurst and writer Phil Smith. Together they have joined forces to produce a haunting little book. – David Taylor
June 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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As @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social told @dianearodgers.bsky.social about dangers of fairy forts & stones, I'm now remembering the number of these we fucked with in Ireland last year. From descending to Tír na nÓg at Oweynagat to touching the Catstone at Uisneach, we set ourselves up for an enchantment
Emerging from Cat Cave, Oweynagat, the entrance to Tír na nÓg Touching the Catstone at Uisneach Sightseers at Browhill portal tomb dolmen Grange stone circle near Limerick
June 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Fantastic night at Sheffield City Hall listening to @dianearodgers.bsky.social interviewed by @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social about folk horror, hauntology, 70s kids' TV and all things wyrd.
June 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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BACK HOME after 2,500 miles on the road in May. Crab & Bee Book Tour has been great (favourite praise so far: "British folk tales told by the Mighty Boosh") but I HAVEN'T SOLD ENOUGH BOOKS TO FUND MY INSANE DIESEL HABIT. Please buy books from Peakrill.com !

Crab & Bee Book Tour continues in June 😩
This post's author, stood outside his home in the North Pennines.
May 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Come visit the Peakrill book stall. Who's a pretty boy then?
Peakrill publisher Daniel Sumption with a table full of zines and books, and a cockatoo on his shoulder.
May 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Fabulous night at the Folk Preservation Society with Crab & Bee. Audience members brought tales of ghost houses and forests, helicopter rides, and spirits below the kitchen floor.

Next stop, Beast Night in Stroud on Sunday. Almost sold out... get your tickets now
www.eventbrite.com/e/beast-nigh...
Phil Smith speaks to the audience at the Folk Preservation Society in Teignmouth
May 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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I think I found the Sycamore Gap memorialized in pebble form, on a beach in Devon.

At Elberry Cove
I found a rock
And on that rock
There grew a tree

I placed that rock
Inside my van
And now that tree
Can go with me
A pebble whose brown and white markings appear as though they represent a tree growing in a landscape.
May 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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More fabulous reviews coming in for Crab & Bee's Matter of Britain, the book is "like British folktales rewritten by the Mighty Boosh", as if "Kurt Vonnegut wrote Tolkien's Silmarillion", and "like TS Eliot's Waste Land, I can't tell whether it's ancient history or prophecy".

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May 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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In Plymouth, the Crab & Bee book tour was joined by local poets, plus queer shanty choir Seaweed in the Fruit Locker. What a fabulous night!
May 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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The Crab & Bee book tour comes to the Folklore Centre in Todmorden on 28th June - tickets now available at www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
May 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Try again...
May 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Fabulous two days at Duplicate Publishing Fair in Birmingham. Here's a small section from my zine haul, plus a really touching shrine to Mark Pawson.

I even sold a few books!
Zines: Access Questions for Self-Publishing; Time Stood Still in these Gardens by Synchar Pde; Tranny Central - the history of the GLF's transsexual & transvestite group 1971-73; Practicing Empathy in Mirrors; The Masjid Uncles of the Front Row; Clown Theory - a selective & aesthetic chronicle of clown theories in defense of the sad & foolish.
May 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Birmingham! The Peakrill Press stall is at Eastside Projects in Digbeth today until 8pm, and tomorrow 12-5. Come say hi!

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May 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Why is nobody entering my competition to win £50 worth of books?
April 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Someone has sent me a message on Substack and I can't read it because fuck proprietary platforms.
The web page where my message ought to appear, but instead is a message telling me to "join the conversation" by getting the Substack app on Google Play 🤷🏻‍♂️
April 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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There was this...
April 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Here's a few more. I have many, many more... might share some if the total on www.kickstarter.com/projects/dan... hits £1,000
A tweet that says: #overheard in the lift: "I'm not going to rub my head for a fucking HOUR" - "That's what your LUNCH BREAK is for". A tweet that says: #overheard "say masturbate! Say masturbate!" "Why are you making her say masturbate?" "Because she can only say MARR-sturbate". A tweet that says: #overheard "The problem with all that Freud and so on is that you have to have so many dreams. I dunno about you but I don't have that many" A tweet that says: #overheard "can you spare any change for Sheffield Rag?" - "Oh, no, mate mate mate: I'm a beggar. Sorry".
April 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM