Odd Country — a rummage drawer of English esoterica

A wooden 1960s television set on a stand in an empty room, showing BBC Test Card F — a girl at a blackboard beside a clown toy — against a wall painted in pastel colour bars.

Show's OverThe strange afterlife of Test Card F

A rummage drawer of English esoterica.

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“The divine art of Printing and Gunpowder have frighted away Robin-good-fellow and the Fayries.”

John Aubrey,
Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme
1686–87

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