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Comic Madness - Wendy the Good Little Witch

So, because there will be comics galore for give-away this Halloween, I thought I'd continue to dip into my own very, very small 'collection.'

Today will be a glimpse of what appears in my Wendy Witch World #23 Giant Size Harvey Comic, February 1968. Which I totally remember reading as a kid, by the way!

More books

These are from my husband's collection. But he is getting rid of them! His Dad gave them to him when he was a kid but he didn't really get into the whole boy mystery thing. Whereas I definitely went through a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys phase when I was young. So, I'm going to hang on to them...for now.

Read and listen more re: the Hardy Boys (there's a drinking game apparently) & Nancy Drew.

- The Hardy Boys Drinkbook podcast
- Noir Factory Podcast #24 – The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew
- 9 Things a Grown Man Can Learn From the Hardy Boys (all are very applicable to women too!)

Hygge

Friday the 13th. Well, I could post something about bad luck, black cats, walking under a ladder, or that movie but instead I've gone another way. Today it's all about 'hygge.'

If you haven't heard the term before then check this out here. Basically, it's Danish for a somewhat indefinable variation on our term 'cozy' but tinged with lots of nostalgia for 'simpler' days. I gotta say my only trip to Copenhagen was full of hygge. There was that amazing restaurant where the only lighting in the entire place was candles. And, oh the old jazz they played! There was the canal boat/bar we stopped in for a warming tipple. And then there were all those outdoor vendors and Xmas markets (sorry, I have to mention the time of year) and versions of glogg (a kind of mulled wine) on offer everywhere. I felt like I was in some version of heaven. But no, it was just Danish hygge.

Regardless of the politics behind the term (for that you can read this here) I feel the snap I took at Lester's a few weeks ago captures it. Certainly the feeling I got on that chilly, overcast day when I walked in from Lester's fields and saw that fire, felt it's warmth, and found myself smiling uncontrollably at the other people in the check out line...well, MUST be hygge!

And those two pumpkins just make it, don't they? Sigh...

Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

Found this last year while helping out with a book sale. Couldn't resist picking it up as I remember having this exact edition when I was a kid. And I remember staying up all night on the train from Montreal to Toronto reading it.

I have plans to read it over the coming month of October. If I do I'll post about it. If I don't, well, don't judge me, ok? There are still a lot of projects to get done around the new house.

Contents:
Introduction – Robert Aickman
A. E. Ellis – The Haunted Haven
H. R. Wakefield – The Red Lodge
Alfred Noyes – Midnight Express
Robert Aickman – Meeting Mr. Millar
Gertrude Bacon – The Gorgon’s Head
Joyce Marsh – The Tree
Lord Lytton – The Haunters And The Haunted
Ivan Turgenev – Bezhin Tea
Agatha Christie – The Last Seance

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Spooky, scary!

Halloween Nostalgia #3

The last trip we took on our way home back in 2010 was to Dublin. This is a little slide show I made of our trip to the Natural History Museum there. You may recognize it as the location for some of action in the last season of Penny Dreadful.

Can you believe I STILL haven't watched the final three episodes?!

Waiting for Halloween night...

Halloween Nostalgia #2

That place we rented right by the river was also across the street from a cemetery. Bonus, right! Yes, manys a stroll I've taken in that place...sometimes with the cat...sometimes at night...alone.

Halloween Nostalgia

This week I am going to showcase some past videos I made and posted in a previous version of this blog.

This first one is a slide show round up of my Halloween decor 2010. In that place near the river ;)

I'm feeling so nostalgic!

Spooky Movie Night!

Tonight the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew......meet Dracula!

 Enjoy the cheese :)

Lament for a snow globe

Have been pulling out the old Halloween stuff I haven't seen in five years! Unfortunately, found one of my dollar store snow globes in pieces. Ironically it was one that had been broken before and replaced. It was one of my favourites; I mean look at the guy!

The skull guy 2011

I've been searching the local dollar stores to see if I could replace him but they don't seem to carry ANY snow globes anymore!

I was also disappointed to see that my beautiful Jack Skellington globe did not escape the effects of 5 years in storage. The paint on the base inside is starting to peel away :(

Here they are in happier days...



But while I lament the losses I was cheered up by the sight of many other old friends unscathed after their time in storage bins. Like this guy...

Old friend