Category: Blogging

Serves you right

Posted on 18th September 2019 by PJH

For many years I ran a wordpress blog off a server on phpwebhosting, I started it so long ago that I don’t think there were that many options for self hosted wordpress blogs. It was always a little slow, but
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Folklore Thursday: Boudicca

Posted on 12th September 2019 by PJH

Oh man, let’s start with the Tweet. I admit, on first read of this, I got very excited, I knew EXACTLY what I was gonna do. Which sounds great, but it’s inevitably crushingly disappointing as your abilities fail to meet
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Folklore Thursday: Labyrinth

Posted on 5th September 2019 by PJH

Ok, I admit, this one got shorter shrift than some of the others. Totally on me, John gave me plenty of time (and a great bit of inspiration) The labyrinth is an ancient symbol. Painted and carved across the world
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Folklore Thursday: Lindwurm

Posted on 29th August 2019 by PJH

Klagenfurt, Austria is home to a nine tonne statue of a Lindwurm, erected in 1590. Folklore tells of the beast plaguing the surrounding swamp, until it was eventually slain by a band of brave knights. Its skull was found in
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Folklore Thursday: Woodwose

Posted on 22nd August 2019 by PJH

No time for blogging this week, just enjoy the strip…! Oh and enjoy this email exchange between me and John… John, can you send me a selfie?I have … reasons… ME Hang on… Are you making me the Woodwose? JOHN
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Savage Dragon

Posted on 20th August 2019 by PJH

Out this Wednesday is issue 245 of Savage Dragon, Erik Larson’s impressively long running superhero strip. A while ago (actually quite a while ago) during a bit of a lull in work, I put it out there that if anyone
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Studio Tour

Posted on 18th August 2019 by PJH

I’ve had a room to work in since around 1997, when my wife (then GF) and I moved into our three bedroom flat. At that time, I had a massive room that I used to work in – it was
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Folklore Thursday: Mushroom

Posted on 15th August 2019 by PJH

Blame me for the titles. John writes a tweet, I supply a title, it was ever thus (in er.. the five weeks we’ve been doing this). Fairy Rings are circles of mushrooms often seen in fields and woodlands across Europe.
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Folklore Thursday: Mandrake

Posted on 8th August 2019 by PJH

You know the drill by now… John’s original tweet: The roots of the Mandragora genus of plants are known as Mandrakes. Once prized as magical ingredients they are hallucinogenic, and highly toxic. It was once believed that when uprooted, the
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Folklore Thursday: Hawthorne

Posted on 1st August 2019 by PJH

This week’s folklore topic is Trees and Forests. As ever, the strip was prompted John Reppion’s tweet length story: In 1990 work on the Limerick to Galway motorway halted. A lone tree stood in its way. The Hawthorne, according to
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