Six Things That Scared Me When I Was A Child

Must be the season of the witch

It’s fun to think about the things that scared us when we were little. Everyone does it!

I used to spend a lot of time on Kindertrauma (“Your happy childhood ends here!”), where people shared the things that kept them awake at night, way back when.

The good thing about the Kindertrauma community was the honesty. You could tell that people were sharing things that actually unnerved them when they were young. They weren’t trying to be cute, or clever, or ironic. So the end result was an archive of truly diabolical… stuff.

I’m taking the same approach here. For instance, I’m not going to suddenly start pretending that I used to have an issue with clowns. Clowns are funny! We used to be good friends with a clown, in fact.

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The Oldest Pub In England, And Other Stories

Olde Trip to Jerusalem

Behold Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem!

It’s the oldest pub in Nottingham, and it also lays claim to being the oldest pub in England.

The oldest “inn”, in any case. I referred to it as a “pub” because I didn’t like the look of the sentence “the oldest inn in England”.

Notice it has a longsword attached to its front.

I’d like to pretend that the figures in the foreground, all of whom are strangers to me, were not there at the time the photo was taken. The problem is, they look a little too glamorous to be ghosts.

Except, perhaps, the young man to the bottom right. He looks like a teenager who was hit by a car whilst running across the road to see the girl in the middle. Now his spirit will follow her forever more. The twist to the tragic tale is that he remains as invisible to her in death as he was in life.

No, these guys aren’t ghosts, but the place is full of them. Full of ghosts, and all manner of interesting things.

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