The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it, not to mention the Fins…

January 28, 2015

Kengo Kuma "surprised" after V&A Dundee costs rise to £80 million: http://t.co/sC1ycB3WqL #architecture #news pic.twitter.com/f5LeCeIf53

— Dezeen (@Dezeen) 28 Gennaio 2015

Spooktober

Spooktober 25 – The Phantom Farm House (2)

Continues from yesterday… ATORRENT of rain held us marooned the next day. Miss Leahy was confined to her room, with a nurse in constant attendance and the house doctor making hourly calls. She was on the verge of a nervous collapse, he told me, crying

October 25, 2026 6:00 am

books and literature

Alix Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches

I wouldn’t have started this book on my own, and for many reasons. One of them is that in Italy it’s marketed as Young Adult Fiction, and I hate most of that stuff, and the other is its imposing length: 600 pages. I was distracted,

October 24, 2026 9:00 am

Spooktober

Spooktober 24 – The Phantom Farm House (1)

“The Phantom Farmhouse” is a short story written by Seabury Quinn, first published in the October 1923 issue of Weird Tales. It is one of Quinn’s most famous standalone works outside of his popular Jules de Grandin detective series. I had been at the new

October 24, 2026 6:00 am