Can't read this (£) but new biography of James Clarence Mangan, apparently? irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

A slightly foxed Vernon Lee.

The in no ways unsettling fairytale world of Den in the Glen by the Dee.

Delighted to learn that the Roy Fisher archive at Sheffield University incorporates the poet’s downstairs toilet, ‘the walls of which were preserved, and their unique decoration lovingly recreated.’

An island on the river Don.

Early autumn shades at Haddo House.

For 'sexpools' read 'cesspools', in John Clare. Good place to find a bumbarrel perhaps (a long-tailed tit).

You have to be 40 to understand Brahms properly, my piano teacher would tell me. I see his point now, I sense. Also two things Brahms is addicted to: very low notes, & enharmonic flat-key modulations that tie him up in endless double-flats (less so double sharps for some reason).

Ted the magnificent.

Deeside staircase with mystery baby portrait.

‘Fac similem tantum, qua potes arte, sui’: an Arthur Johnston poem on George Jamesone’s portrait of Lady Campbell.

Return of Harold the toad! Who appears to have filled out somewhat round the midriff.

A pumpkin full of slugs.

I thought this canard (bottom right-hand corner) had been discredited?

Montrose (person) demands that Aberdeen (place) surrender or else, 1644. City defenders responded by killing his messenger’s drummer boy, which he took for a no.

The rather Dostoevskian George MacDonald, whose bicentenary approaches. By George Reid.

Late-night Reverdy.

Who has climbed close as Ron Yeats to the heights of the football colossus? #footballhaiku #lfc theguardian.com/football/artic…