…that last territory of the light seems to draw into itself every longing for travel that I have ever felt and every longing for home. - from The Last of the Light by Peter Davidson…

Ain’t been here for a while but thought I’d mention I am @vocebooks to listen to @adamscovell talk about local haunts and his book Local Haunts…

A splendid evening @vocebooks with Iain Sinclair… talking, amongst many things, of John Deakin, Francis Bacon, Henrietta Moraes, a last supper, drinking too much, too much drinking Wheelers restaurant and Dylan Thomas in a graveyard… #pariahgenius

A splendid afternoon listening to @paul_catherall talk about his art, inspirations, architecture, book covers, rollers and lino in Coventry @CovCathedral Get yourself to the exhibition! paulcatherall.com/news/exhib…

I read Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell… if you’ve got your wits about you, you will too… if your wits are off somewhere doing other stuff then reading it will bring them closer to your infinite... or something. #superinfinite

Excellent work yesterday at Frankly Beeches by @HWFireBGrove… they had a proton pack and a PKE meter and put out the fire! Plus they looked pretty much EXACTLY like this! Don’t set fire to trees, it's a sh!t idea and wastes #Ghostbusters time when they could be catching ghosts!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night…

I've said this before but I love Almond Blossom by Fiona Benson... so on this, the winter solstice, remember - and though we can’t yet feel it earth’s already begun her slow incline, inch by ruined inch, easing you back from the brink.

Just when a terrible year couldn’t get any worse, there are Carol singers in Birmingham city centre…

I went and purchased the splendid @DigbethStories from the splendid @vocebooks last week... You should do the same this week. #splendid

Went to @vocebooks today and picked up a new addition to the ever growing and frankly dangerous 'to be read' pile... it's in the centre of the fair city of Birmingham, the bookshop I mean, not the pile of books... you should visit and a buy a book... #Tsundoku

Tonight, in Stirchley, it’s the opening of Walkspace ‘23… I wrote a poem, well I wrote a poem after Kipling wrote one first… I think it’s on the wall… if you’ve got nothing better to do come along… #starcilly

At ⁦@mac_birmingham⁩ listening to, amongst other stuff, the world famous in Birmingham ⁦@theindiecountry⁩ don’t let the concrete dance floor put you off it’s like a fire cracker on the 4th of July in here.

In the sunsheeeee-ine.

The thing with parakeets is they are very green, or the ones on Birmingham’s River Rea are, and that makes them very hard to see against the very green foliage of a very spring morning… #very

Thoroughly splendid evening listening to @JohnGarthWriter talk about Tolkien's recovery from, or his way of dealing with his, and others, harrowing experiences in WW1... plus I met @InDeepGeek by 'accident'... which was also splendid...

As boundaries grow thin just beyond the fields we know, best hang cowslip on your doors to ward off the fey folk... #Walpurgisnacht

Saw @NikkEffingham give his inaugural lecture on the dangers of time travel... I am now seriously considering scrapping my time machine... it seems just sitting near it could cause a heart attack if I even THINK of travelling back in time to visit the Gobi Desert #youhadtobethere

One. Horse. Town.