Happy Hallowe’en!
This time last year, I was woken up by a tremendous crash in the middle of the night and the dogs barking hysterically. It turned out a large picture had fallen off the wall on the landing. At three o’clock in the morning I found myself fending off two excitable spaniels as I swept up broken […]
When things go bump in the night …
So, did you enjoy the first episode of Phil Rickman’s Midwinter of the Spirit? I did, although I watched from behind the dog. Parts of the book scared me silly and the same parts of the TV adaptation did too! In episode one Huw, Merrily’s deliverance mentor played by the wonderful David Threlfall, […]
Ghosts, ghoulies and a Hamburg art gallery.
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ So said Hamlet, who had just cause to say so, as the ghost of his father had just appeared before him. Before Christmas, on a bitterly cold Sunday afternoon, I had the pleasure of listening to Barbara Erskine speak […]
