"Will Poirot swap dandy homburg for a pavilion hard hat? In the ABC Murders episode, A is Andover, B is Bexhill and C is Churton is Devon - though the actual filming will be done at Fairlight." Bexhill Observer 5.4.1991. #dlwp #Bexhill #Sussex #AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #History #1930s #1990s

Avebury #StandingStoneSunday

This is the taller (4m) of 2 menhirs by the main road down the west coast of Quiberon (Morbihan) near the turn off to the village of Manémeur. Card by Vassellier in Nantes c.1907. #StandingStoneSunday.

Fairy balls - these clay objects were created to distract piskies who come down the chimney to cause mischief.Instead, the piskie ball would entrance them, and they would dance around it until dawn,at which point they would disappear. steemit.com/history/@its... #FolkloreSunday

"Wild Beast Wood," by English artist, Sidney Sime

"Mons Serpollet's "Easter Egg."" Bexhill Chronicle 24.5.1902. #Bexhill #Sussex #Easter #EasterEgg #MotorSport #Steam #Car #History #1900s

He lives, he wakes—'tis Death is dead, not he; Mourn not for Adonais. Thou young Dawn, Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee The spirit thou lamentest is not gone; – P. B. Shelley, 'Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats' 1821 #art by Joseph Farquharson 1903

Sunbeam #Colombo #SriLanka 5.4.1877. "The heat was intense, & there was a roll...made me feel very uncomfortable...no wind all the afternoon, & the sun sank into the sea, glorious & golden, as we took our last look at the lovely island of Ceylon, the land of spice & fragrance & beauty." #Brassey

The marsh rabbit is the ultimate swamp trickster. Unlike its dry-land cousins, this "phantom" swims and dives to outwit the alligator. It’s a classic battle of wits where the small and clever always finds a way to stay one hop ahead of the jaws. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Folklore

Happy Easter! Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! 😍 Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

As well as our Easter trail with small prize & sticker (included in entry cost)we are also celebrating Easter with this posing board! Pictured are museum volunteers Neil & David. Plus we have a sale of secondhand books hardbacks £2 paperback £1 (free entry to sale, open to non-visitors too) #Bexhill

This is a very dark picture, but I believe I can see the spectre stag, though difficult because of his fast movement, camouflaging things somewhat

Happy Easter to you all! 🐣 The beach was looking pretty gloomy this morning, although the sun has just broken through here. The museum is open today &tomorrow from 11-4 and we have the kids Easter trail &photo op and our secondhand book sale with hardbacks £2 and paperbacks £1. #Bexhill #HappyEaster

#RodentOfTheDay Wood Mouse/Long-Tailed Field Mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) "Did you know? Wood mice can shed the skin on their tail in a bid to escape predators. Wood mice live in woodland, parks, gardens and farmland." www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...

'And pleasant is the fairy land, But, an eerie tale to tell, Ay at the end of seven years, We pay a tiend to hell' ~'Tam Lin', Scottish Ballad 🎨 'Fairy Land' by Gustave Doré #BookWormSat

"New Headquarters Of Bexhill Sea Angling Association, Opened On Wednesday." Bexhill Observer 4.4.1914. #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1910s

A Roman Easter bunny from Tullie House Museum.

Crowds outside the Sackville Hotel, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex c.1909. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #History #1900s

'Will o' the Wisp' by Gottlieb Theodor von Kempf-Hartenkampf

Wall and rocks near Ingra Tor above Sampford Spiney this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. Faust, part 1 Goethe William Blake #BookWormSat

Edvard Munch, Love and Pain/Vampire, 1895

Ask your lodgers which plan they prefer, as it is quite optional whether eggs are fried on one side only or turned.

‘The Dead are following,’said Legolas. ‘I see shapes of Men and of horses, and pale banners like shreds of cloud, and spears like winter-thickets on a misty night. The Dead are following.’ ‘Yes, the Dead ride behind. They have been summoned’ The Return of the King J RR Tolkien #BookWormSat

If troubled by pimples and blotches, eat no pastry, cheese, sugar, eggs, jam, nor sweets.

Sunbeam #Kuching #Malaysia 4.4.1887. "A long narrow room over the market is used as the museum...We were shown one of the ingenious air-compressing tubes which have been used by natives for hundred of years past to produce fire...there is nothing new under the sun." #Brassey #Travel #History #1880s

The dolmen on the SW corner of the alignments of Kermario in Carnac is the remains of a V-shaped passage grave. This c.1905 card by MTIL shows it before restoration by Carnac based archaeologist Zacharie Le Rouzic in the 1920s.

We are running an Easter trail for kids until April 12th. They can then choose an egg containing a mystery prize and a sticker. The trail is included in the cost of entry. 🐣#Bexhill #Easter

Wisden Sports making an appearance there on the rhs.

"The Haunted Library. Hastings Library can be found in Claremont & is known as the Brassey Institute. ...he thought it was just the light filtering through the window...but then a ball of light glided gracefully up the staircase." From "Haunted Hastings" by Tina Brown, 2006. #PhantomsFriday #Brassey

Hunt out some extraordinary eggs with our Easter Eggventure Family trail. This decorated ostrich egg from Botswana has been made into a water container with a stopper made from grass fibre. It is over 50 years old, having been given to the Museum prior to 1972. bit.ly/4s8HQMM

🕊️✝️🕊️On #GoodFriday Blacksmiths would often refuse to shoe horses or undertake any work involving hammer and nails, out of respect for the Crucifixion. #FolkyFriday #Easter #FolkloreSunday

"West Parade. Bexhill-on-Sea." Postcard sent 3.4.1904. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Holiday #History #1900s

Staying in Bexhill on Sea in UK for the weekend and this is the fantastic moonscape tonight over the sea 🙂

Arthur Hughes "The boy with the great mouth full of teeth grins at Maggie," From “Speaking Likenesses” by Christina Rossetti, 1874

We have a book sale over the four days of Easter. There are books for adults and children. Hardbacks are £2 and paperbacks are £1. Entry to the sale is free. #Bexhill #Books

Huckworthy bridge yesterday #Dartmoor #Devon #nature #landscape

"Bexhill's Easter Holiday. Pavilion sun traps were greatly appreciated during the cold Easter. Inset: A busy chair attendant. Spartans enjoyed camp life on the South Cliff during the holiday week-end." Bexhill Observer 3.4.1937. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Easter #Holiday #History #1930s #dlwp

#BookologyThursday Despite the sentimentality of the age, Victorian children's literature was full of dire warnings about the consequences of disobedience or folly, such as this poor child who died after petting a mad dog. Mercy for the naughty was in short supply.

There are a good many errors in the verses on “Spring” you send us, but your letter is so pleasant and modest we are reluctant to pull your composition to pieces. However, “rains” and “made”, “days” and “gay”, “thin” and “Spring” do not rhyme.

Sunbeam #NuwaraEliya #SriLanka 3.4.1877. "The land-leeches, which abound...are a great plague...It rained last night, and I was specially cautioned not to go on the grass or to pick flowers, as these horrid creatures fix on to one's ankle or arm...everybody seems to dread and dislike them." #Brassey

The dolmen of Bouéry in Mailhac-sur-Benaize (Haute-Vienne) has a 4.5x3.5m roughly circular convex capstone with 40 cupules pecked into it resting on 5 orthostats. It was built by 4 fairies known as les Tétrabouillas.

It's #FontsonFriday folks..... We visited St John the Baptist Church, Sedlescombe, here's their C15 font, its of a plain octagonal style, the polygonal cover is thought to be C16th. For more info: sussexparishchurches.org/church/sedle...

FANTASTIC NEWS! The 2,500 year-old gold Coțofenești Helmet from Romania has been recovered! 🤩 Also recovered are two of three ancient gold bracelets, all were stolen in a raid on a Dutch museum more than a year ago. 📷 by me 2021 #Archaeology

With humans now pushing beyond earth orbit in #ArtemisII it's worth looking back 5000 years to another extraordinary celestial endeavour The megalithic builders of Bryn Celli Ddu passage grave on Ynys Môn/Anglesey carefully aligned the entrance with the rising summer solstice sun ☀️ 📷 My own, 2024

The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger, dated to Good Friday 1533 (annus horribilis). Painted in London, it portrays French envoys Jean de Dinteville & Georges Selve. Known for vanitas anamorphic skull, rich array of celestial & terrestrial objects - & lute with broken string. National Gallery

The Crucifixion, from this very early Percy Book of Hours now in the British Library Made in the late 13th century in York the Percy prayer-book consisted of a psalter and a book of hours. Exactly which Percy – or wife of a Percy – was patron of the manuscript has not been decided.

#bookologythursday "How can'st thou part sadness and melancholy." Love's Labour's Lost 1.2 #greatexpectations #misshavisham #bookchatweekly Charles Dickens #victoriana

Sea Spiderssss #LetsChangeThat

#RodentOfTheDay Great Gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) "From S Mongolia and N China (Xinjiang, Gansu, Nei Mongolia) to Kazakhstan, Iran, Afghanistan, and SW Pakistan." Info from: www.mammalsociety.org/image-librar...