Daniel McKay

Sawoosh away all the gloomth with a bit of Whimwondery! Nonsense inventions for solving sundry irks and problems from cold custard to the meaning of the universe! 🙃

At the Cenotaph in London on 11 November 1919, a visiting Australian recalled that the crowd was overwhelmed by an “awful silence”, which “was so intense that the flutter of the pigeons’ wings away above us in the calm sky seemed to deepen it”. Read More: theconversation.com/remembrance-da…

It never gets old (other than literally).

A phrase fallen into désuétude!

A trip to rural Suffolk.

Knock, knock!

If, like me, you're always hunting for new free public domain images, here's a delightful (and eccentric) repository... pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all/…

Or someone who very very kindly would bid on me this for me… christies.com/en/lot/lot-652…

Who wants one (or both) of my kidneys, or to buy my hand in marriage? I only have a few days to raise funds for this… christies.com/auction/auctio…

Tick, tock, on the big old clock! Only a few days left (applications close on Friday 17 January) to join my team as the Coordinator of the Emma Experience cocurricular programme (emmaexperience.uk) at Emmanuel College in Cambridge. More Information: #job1330" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">emma.cam.ac.uk/about/jobs/#jo…

Atmospheric Godolphin House in Cornwall. What the @nationaltrust charmingly refer to as a ‘holiday cottage’.

Come work with me at Emmanuel College in Cambridge. Were recruiting a programme coordinator for Emma Experience our co-curricular initiative: #job1330" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">emma.cam.ac.uk/about/jobs/#jo…

Thankfully he and the cattle dogs escaped before it really went up!

My brother’s job is rather more eventful than mine…

@WillHoneycomb Sounds plausible!

@danieljtmckay I’ve wondered whether that’s where Simon Gray got the name for the eponymous character in his play Butley. He had a house in Suffolk.

A bygone glimpse of rural England, near the village of Butley, preserved in a Victorian photo album. The name of the girl is preserved in handwritten scrawl ‘Mary Ellen Urwin’ in conversation with a character named ‘Old Fawcett’!

Alphabet Scoop - fabulous review of Whimwondery by David Lipton for World of Interiors: worldofinteriors.com/story/whimwond…

A marvellous review of my book Whimwondery in @WofInteriors by David Lipton! worldofinteriors.com/story/whimwond…

Other than the ghosts and the birds, we were alone at ruined Kirby Hall. It stirs the imagination!

First time inside the Cambridge Guildhall. Very muscular classicism by Vosey (completed 1939). The Council Chamber feels like somewhere to watch a show trial. The seahorse is cute though!

Lo! He speaketh (complete nonsense).