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Boardgame review: Final Girl – The Haunting of Creech Manor
A quick post tonight: I did another play through of this solo boardgame based on 80’s horror flicks. This time it’s Poltergeist: you have moved in to Creech Manor and very quickly discover that it is...
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Parcel delivery woes in UK changes
I’m getting old: just bought my first loud three point doorbell. No ring video cams for me (the police have surveillance cameras covering our street anyway) just old fashioned bell so I can hear when...
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Review: Heavy Metal (1981) film; music, sexism and gaming culture.
I’m notorious for never watching TV or movies but I’m currently reading Designers & Dragons Shannon Appelcline’s wonderful history of the rpg industry and immersed in 1970s and 1980s culture....
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TV Review: Panthera Britannia – are there big cats in the British countryside?
It seems odd to us now but when I was a kid I lived through one of the coldest winters on record in the UK — December/January 1981 to 82, when blizzards swept across the country and heavy snow...
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The Nature of Paranormal Events?
What is the actual underlying nature of paranormal events? I will suggest three ideas of how it might work – tell me which you think the evidence most suggests? This is my three tier model so feel...
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Uncanny (TV Show) Review – Episode 1 “Miss Howard”
Watched Uncanny episode 1. What a fantastic case! I hope if you have not seen it yet you will go and watch it, and warning here that there are major spoilers below. Also if you are happy to be...
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Whammed? I think not!
I originally wrote this back in 2017 but it is useful every year. One less thing to worry about in the holiday season! “I notice a number of friends believe they have failed at Whamageddon. They are...
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The One In Which Everyone but CJ embraces the Christmas Spirit…
Merry Advent everybody! Soon Christmas will be upon us, I will write another ghost story and the Association for Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (www.assap.ac.uk) will shut its doors for a...
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The Werewolf of W———– : My 2023 Christmas Ghost Story
Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction, and none of the entities, characters, organisations, locations, events or references are meant to depict any real entity. Any vague similarities with real...
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