You'll never guess what librarians come back as.

The latest chilli sauce experiment. Alive, and moving with slow menace in its jar.

My experiment in chilli sauce, two batches, strained and chunky. It is not bad tbh. Fairly hot, but afterglow rather than afterburn. Slowly, I learn.

Those of my dear colleagues who have an imperfectly suppressed fascination for the Dark Arts have alerted me to this splendid site for Scottish witch trials, sortable by date, gender, social class

RT @bookishseawitch: it’s always “I love you” and never “I bought you the entire penguin clothbound classics collection” .

Fuuuuuuuuuq. I knew they were deeply orthogonal to most other critters, but yhis I did not know. .

RT @Clarien_L: The finest piece of interwebz we've seen in a long time. Read comments and, importantly, OP's replies.

RT @hradzka: they can’t shoot all of us, boys.

RT @OptimoPrincipi: Ancient Greeks in the Arctic. In 325 BC the Greek geographer Pytheas made a voyage of exploration into the Arctic Circl….

RT @CardiffUniLib: Staff overhearing students attempt to reach a book from a high shelf, then. excitedly - "look, you can use this little….

Abby and Jack. Very much on my mind. Always so happy to see me. Abby even forgot his Great Dignity as Garden Patriarch and *ran* towards me

RT @janeyellene: Two cider drinking friends outside an Inn , in Sommerset taken by amateur photographer Benjamin Stone c1900 https://t.co/….

Rincewind. Double in Roundworld. Official

Sitting up at night, drinking on my own. But not in a bad way. Listening to Steve Earle's "Bonnie and Billy" on repeat in a sort of a bad way, though.

Peppadews, jalapenos, and cherry tomatoes in, with chilli powder as a pest deterrent. Bloody Sorrel and redskin potatoes relocated, and turnipzzz zeeeded. Arrrr. Turnipzzzz zey be. Turnipzzzz. Arrrrrr.

It is a great privilege to be a nut fairy, but one must deliver in all weathers

Then again, there were also some really bad ones.

It cannot be denied - there were some great pulp fiction book covers in the late 70s and early 80s.

RT @janeyellene: Children of the London slums, tend a fire in a battered tin brazier, used to heat buckets of water in which to scrub cloth….

RT @AlisonFisk: Spectacular Bronze Age status symbol. The Shannongrove Gorget is an ancient collar exquisitely crafted from gold about 2,80….