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Verity Holloway

6 months

I write stories about art, history, folklore, and bad medicine: Hire me to edit your writing: CloisterFox zine: Tips: The Others of Edenwell:

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Verity Holloway

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9 months

I was walking my husky when a great dane saw her and gave an almighty "WOOF!" The owner, basically at eye-level with the dog: "Julio! I don't want to hear it."

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@LordAttercop He says there are three cellars that 'they' blocked up in the 50s(?) and "filled with stuff" and he chuckled darkly. SO THAT'S FUN.

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4 years

Good news; Dracula's back.

Ghost ship washes ashore in Ireland after more than a year at sea

Public warned away from MV Alta, which ran aground on Cork coast during Storm Dennis

www.theguardian.com

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@VProofreader No joke, I visited my boyfriend's family home and he pointed at the derelict pub behind and said "The chef chopped some guy's hands off here."

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1 year

@bookiesnacksize Sincerely hoping this is going to turn out to be naughty mags from the 50s and not... any of the other options.

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6 years

If you've ever worried about your professional headshot, take a moment to absorb Victor Hugo's.

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6 years

Just received a message from some random man I’ve never spoken to. “Sup”, he said, like a medieval monk imploring me to try his pottage.

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1 year

@ohsinnerman It's funny you should say that, because there are apparently three cellars.

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1 year

@GossamerTearoom Right! And I couldn't get any more info out of him. He used to work in the building back in the 50s, so God only knows what's in there. They're currently very slowly taking the adjoining house apart so they can demolish it safely.

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5 years

The Gatwick drone palaver has reminded me of the world’s most pleasing gif.

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9 months

I should have shared a picture of my girl, Brontë! The queen of the sofa, enemy of carb-based snacks everywhere.

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2 years

I will miss Twitter if only for the chaotic evil boomers with profiles like "love my Yorkshire terrier, hate the Geneva Convention".

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2 years

@TheBlackNerd The man who came into the shop with a live turkey on his shoulder and then proceeded to aggressively ask all the staff if they’d eat it.

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2 years

@NicoleSykes_ I used to live near a pet shop called Grumpy's, named for Grumpy, the resident African grey parrot who would scream "ARSEHOLE!" every single time a customer walked in.

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3 years

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9 months

@Jackisrael17 Is her tail red and yellow?

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2 years

Raising a glass to my chronic illness community, who daily ride through pain and loneliness and humiliation without end, in stark contrast to "Mask hurt nosey, is this fascism?"

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1 year

@babetemples My rictus grin as I tried to ask questions and received no answers...

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2 years

@TinyWriterLaura I don't know about the rest of you, but I received my official telegram delivered by a boy in uniform who dropped dead the moment I opened my door.

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1 year

@catlilycooks @bookiesnacksize He doesn't like to answer direct questions, so you have to sort of lead him and wait to see what he says. But I got nothing! I am watching those workmen like a hawk.

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8 months

@Scriblit Fond memories of being told off for my regulation skirt being too short because the company you had to buy them from only made them for short people. Bought an off-brand longer version - not the right brand, go home. Fantastic use of everyone's time.

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6 years

I'm getting old. I'm watching a horror film about a house with a hidden cellar that wasn't on the deeds, and all I can think is how much value that would add.

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1 year

@GoingMedieval "Cut out gigs, theatre, cinema". Joke's on her, my town doesn't have any of those facilities anyway thanks to multiple recessions.

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1 year

I've acquired 8k new followers in less than 24 hours so I am going to live in an abandoned mineshaft until normal service resumes.

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1 year

Next year, British Library Tales of the Weird goes ecclesiastical. It's me, I'm the target audience for this.

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3 years

My 90-year-old neighbour who has lived in the same house his whole life was telling me about the cunning woman who lived up the street during WW2 and liked to be paid in eggs.

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6 years

@AmeliaMangan @BizarreVictoria Oh God. Of battle, he said "There were pieces of people flying past my nose and I thought, 'this is perfectly awful but not as bad as being at school'."

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1 year

@Dai_Doniol So, annoyingly, this street is not on any known plague pits, because I checked when we moved in and was kind of miffed about it. But! That end of the street borders on the old Tudor cemetery which was paved over, so it could be dead Tudors.

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9 months

@Jackisrael17 That's so cute!

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1 year

@thatkat Nervously awaiting closure.

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2 years

@Lillylatelee @JohannesTEvans When I worked in a shop, a very elderly lady came in to buy a saucepan. With the pan sitting on the checkout, she reached into her handbag and produced a slab of gammon, dropped it into the pan with a thud, and cried "Wehay!" Made my day.

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4 years

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5 years

This is your annual reminder that if you witness anyone being rude to a retail worker this weekend, it is your civic duty to ram a parsnip up their nose and buy the retail worker a coffee.

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2 years

@AriaAber Oddly, my neighbour invented these. He's 95, Italian, wears a full formal suit every day, and loves to tell the story of him pitching the idea to Mister Ferrero back in the 60s(?). He would absolutely want me to tell Twitter.

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7 years

@MooseAllain Oh, and my boyfriend was cooking sausages for dinner once, I asked how long it would be, and he said, "Not long. I'm just browning the... the... [thinks very hard for the word]...slender meats."

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1 year

@LeeAndersonMP_ So every time MPs want a pay rise, shouldn't they all simply get a paper round?

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9 months

@KattDriskill No remorse in those eyes.

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4 years

Listen, sir, if bisexuality makes you uncomfortable, vampire lore emphatically isn't the creative playground for you.

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4 years

think this is genuinely the funniest homophobic sentence ive read in ages

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6 months

Our Flag Means Death: It was supposed to be kind. Or: why, if you're going to yank the rug, you have to stick the landing. To mix upholstery and aviation metaphors.

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@Verity_Holloway

6 years

"Try a flirty one, Victor."

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1 year

Most of these are funny and sweet, but this one just floored me.

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"BACHELOR (Wilts) thirties, educated, jolly, lost all chums in war, wants meet few other lonely fellows, 25-35. All welcome. Please write. (595.B)" [March 1921]

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As a dyscalculaic child I was completely abandoned to fail maths, so I looked up the marking criteria and it turned out you got points for workings out, even if they were wrong. So I spent my exams making up complicated looking workings out, all wildly wrong, and passed.

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants all pupils to study maths to 18

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4 years

During one of the outbreaks of plague, my ancestor swam through the Naval blockade of the Isle of Wight so he could go and see his girlfriend. He infected the entire island and had the temerity to survive. So. Don't do that.

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1 year

@Azven In my neighbourhood, it's likely.

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1 year

The second I'm expected to write an 'about the author' page, I turn into a formless wraith drifting across the fens, nameless and thoughtless, witnessed by none but the marsh eels.

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2 years

I never want to hear a peep of imposter syndrome from any of you again, friends.

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2 years

Breaking: Liz Truss to be the next Prime Minister.

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1 year

@Lettybird @VProofreader Chefs, man.

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6 years

"Okay, act casual."

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3 years

Forbidden Viennetta.

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Such precision in the carving of costume folds. Worcester Cathedral.

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@AoifePBoylan @babetemples He's lived here his whole life and used to work in the building, so I'm on tenterhooks.

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@valoakley25 This is the London I remember ❤️

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@Nicole_Cliffe My old Jack Russell hijacked a van. He leapt out of the living room window, though the open window of the postman's parked van, then stood on the driver's seat barking while the postman - returning to his vehicle - tried and failed to open the door and regain control.

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7 years

Overheard some ladies discussing Taboo today. "It's horrible. The language is atrocious. People just didn't swear like that in those days!"

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9 months

So, a witch.

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3 years

I am proud to be launching a national campaign to have a portrait installed in every British attic, grower ever more putrid and hideous as our deviant acts increase in depravity, year after profligate year.

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1 year

1923. "We are too exhausted from working our machines."

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2 years

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@UnheimlichManvr @scumbelievable You are my daughter now, Ally. Come along, mother has errands to run.

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@mamikgibar @TheBlackNerd I promise there's no context that can make this interaction make sense.

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2 years

My open heart surgery was 'elective', which made it sound like an optional activity I signed up for between general studies and PE.

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As we face delays in “elective” surgeries to free up hospital space, a reminder that many these surgeries are better referred to as “medically necessary, time sensitive.”

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@hansmollman @EwaSR @greg_jenner There's an anecdote from a soldier who spent time working closely with Wilfred Owen in the trenches, and they had a running joke when there was a bombardment where they'd scream at each other over the noise: "Apparently there's a war on!" "A what?" "A WAR."

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2 years

A greyhound got loose and was tearing down the street with his owner in hot pursuit, and as the dog passed some builders, one of them yelled out in a comedy French accent: "Ahaha, ai am free! Ai can leev mah laif as ai plis!"

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2 years

Absolutely delighted to discover an 18th century euphemism for tea was "scandal-broth".

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4 years

Sophie Scholl, executed by the Nazi regime on this day in 1943.

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4 years

I was trying to explain my deathly fear of cockchafer beetles - aka the devil's own ladybugs, aka satan's sticky soldiers - but the image search results aren't really helping.

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1 year

I just said good morning to the two priests coming out of the local church and they simultaneously went "It's afternoon." I think I've done some Sloth.

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3 years

@HelenVMurray @thinwhitejew I had the same reaction. Random kicking and punching just because you have the temerity to walk past. I lost count how many times this happened to me or people I knew.

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To this day, Jonathan Miller's Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You is one of the most frightening films I've seen. Simple effects, simple sound, absolutely riveting.

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2 years

I'm launching @cloisterfox , a bi-annual zine of British speculative fiction. Support the Indiegogo fundraiser:

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2 years

@LadyAttercop I would pay good money to watch you harass bad ghosts.

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1 year

Hello, new followers who enjoy spooks. I edit a magazine of scary stories, which are fiction, unlike... whatever's happening on my street. Check it out!

CloisterFox Zine

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"In the second photograph, the thing is now resting on the lockside..." Paperbacks and ebooks from £6.

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9 years

#FirstDateQuestions How many Walkers have you killed? How many people have you killed? Why? http://t.co/3ovzmvOfiG

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7 months

The only way to shut Brando up in the morning is to cradle him like a massive baby.

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1 year

No, but multiple teachers tried to stop me reading above my age band, calling my parents in because I was 'pretending' to read adult books. Joke's on them: geeks shall inherit the earth.

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Did your parents monitor/police your reading? And if so, at what age did it stop? I certainly didn’t get any input from when I started choosing/buying my own books, maybe age 10 or 11, and I can’t remember ever being told “not that” when I wanted a book from a shop or library.

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5 years

'Les Lupins' by Maurice Sand, 1858. This picture obsessed me as a child, absolutely terrified me. Whenever I come across it now, I still get that frisson.

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1 year

@jaklacroix Weirdly, I hope you're right!

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1 year

Connective tissue disorders can be so comedic. I partially dislocated my shoulder yesterday playing - no, not tennis, no, not cricket, no, not rock climbing - Age of Empires III on desktop.

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I've never known a dog to talk like Brando does. Every morning he greets me with "AWOO! A-grumgrumgrumgrum brum brum brum brrrrrrrrrrrrr." It's like living with a Brian Froud creature.

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3 years

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6 years

Oh, good! The exact same expression and pose as the first shot, but there's a scarf and it's fancy.

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1 year

Brando the dog just leapt onto my lap, opened a new Word document and typed this compelling little text emoji. I suspect it means 'feed me'.

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6 years

"Sorry, Victor, we're going to have to go again. I think you blinked."

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2 years

Happy third birthday to my upgraded heart! It's three years to the day that my surgeon at @RoyalPapworth gave me a synthetic aortic root and replaced one of my coronary arteries with one from my thigh. My sternum scar is barely visible now, but I love it.

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9 years

In case your Friday is lacking the element of creeping sinister unease, here's a Victorian dressed as a poodle. http://t.co/a3fkrzTsB0

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7 months

Stood in front of this in the Maritime Museum just convulsing with laughter for about five minutes.

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This painting is an imaginary reconstruction of an event that occurred in 1773 - with a teenage Midshipman Nelson. He attempted to shoot a polar bear but his musket misfired. So he took it on with the butt of his gun. Fortunately a gap opened in the ice, so both survived.

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6 years

Shame it was £95 because I would love to serve Jaffa Cakes on this beauty.

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2 years

I have news! My folk horror novel, The Others of Edenwell, will be published by @TitanBooks next July. Talk about a dream come true. I can’t wait to take you to 1917 and introduce you to Freddie, Eustace and Drummerboy.

The Others of Edenwell

www.amazon.co.uk

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1 year

February is Marfan syndrome awareness month, so here I am, doing my annual bit. If you know the signs, you're much less likely to, well, die of it, so if one person is reached by my ramblings, it's worth doing.

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@MooseAllain A few weeks ago, woman I didn't know wished me a cordial "Good morning" and I responded with "Moomin".

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@GoingMedieval "I just know that if the lovely...[spins wheel]... Isambard Kingdom Brunel was still with us..."

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6 years

If you're going to take the world's first ever photo of a human face, make sure it's a good face.

Pulp Librarian

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The first self-portrait photograph was taken in October 1839 by Robert Cornelius. It's also the first ever photo of a person's face... #WorldPhotographyDay

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6 years

I’ve rarely wanted anything so intensely as this 19th Belgian dentists’ window display. I half expected a button to make them chatter.

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2 years

I write stories about art, history, folklore, and bad medicine: Hire me to edit your writing: CloisterFox zine: Tips:

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7 years

Malta's old city of Mdina features some of the greatest door knockers outside a Jim Henson production.

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1 year

💀COVER REVEAL! My historical horror novel, The Others of Edenwell, is out on the 4th of July 2023. Look at the beautiful cover @TitanBooks have given it. Pre-order, but do not, under any circumstances, venture into Choke Wood...

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I LIVED. Officially rehabilitated into polite society! Compare & contrast: today, fresh from the gym, and back in April, unable to get out of bed without the assistance of a rugby playing nurse. I still have many months of healing ahead of me, but I feel great.