79.squall-longleg.2.18

Van and I and working hard to get the first volume of his memoirs finished off, so that's why I'm still quiet of the diary front, but rest assured I have plenty of notes from the field and I'll be adding some back-dated entries a soon as I get the opportunity. Van says Hi, by the way, he's with me now -- we're both getting stuck into a fresh pint of Ripperthroat IPA, nectar of Dunlockslyn, as I hastily scribble down these notes. I added a new map of Hellsborough junction a few days past, you can see it on the home page -- you can see all of those liminal places converging in one place: The cross-roads, the river and that ancient graveyard -- no wonder it is a SSLI: Special Site of Liminal Interest, one of the most important in the universe, I shouldn't wonder. In the off-world, there is this handy tool called what3words, which helps you locate a place very specifically anywhere on planet Earth. One of the locations close to Hellsborough junction is ///fire.frozen.atoms, which has an aptly hellish, murky, dark matter ring to it. The map on the home page forms part of a larger image, which I'll get finished and put in the gallery with the other maps soon too.

Edit: A couple of you have been in touch to note that the cemetery on the map designated as The Bone Yard, doesn't exist in the off-world -- and you are entirely correct. Here is an explanation for that: The Bone Yard doesn't exist now -- as it does in Hellsborough, which is the side of The Hinge that the map is showing -- in the off-world, because in all likelihood, it has now been built upon. That is also the case in Hellsborough -- Van's own property, an imposing baroque manse, which overlooks "Hellsborough Hole" at the very bottom of Walkley lane, is also built within the area shown as The Bone Yard on my map.