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Thank you Pat. The familiar made uneasy is often exactly what I am aiming for.

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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Hookland

It is uncanny how some memories of Hookland chime with my own. I had an obsession with Alison Uttley stories and a big book of dinosaurs and Bonfire night was so very important. I have started to “remember” the green and red witch masks. I can “see” them so clearly, even though they were never in my past...or were they?

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They used to have one of the red witch masks on display at the Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green, but it appears to have been erased.

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“Some of favourite wanderings in the county come when I can no longer tell whether it my broken memory or a character’s recollection I am exploring.”

A thousand times yes to this. I think some of my favourite writing to read is where things phase between reality and unreality.

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Hookland has always been the salt-line blur of river meeting sea. It the uncertainty of territory which gives me some of the biggest pleasure.

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Remind me to tell you about the Savannah Science Museum that I wasn’t sure existed

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Nov 26, 2022Liked by Hookland

Loved the Guy Fawkes’s memories

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Thank you.

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Nov 25, 2022Liked by Hookland

More enchanting stuff! I loved the way the 1970s ws so beautifully mis remembered. All Hookland writing evokes a feeling of familiarity and a glimpse of what lies at the edges should you stray into unfamiliar territory.

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Thank you Pat.

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Nov 25, 2022Liked by Hookland

As fantastic as always, David. I am only hanging around Twitter still to keep up with your Hookland tweets, so it makes me glad that if that platform does disappear then Hookland Endures

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I'm staying because resistance is the DNA of Hookland, but I don't think I or Hookland are a given on Twitter or elsewhere anymore.

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Nov 25, 2022Liked by Hookland

Wonderful! Especially The Secret King. Thank you.

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One of my favourite folk tales from the county.

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Remind me to show you one of the two Hookland treatments at some point, the one dealing with the Blackford Down Space Research Centre.

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