A day late for #FolkloreThursday but if you want to read my review of Imogen Corrigan's book The Green Man, it's here. It's not perfect but I really enjoyed the book and found some useful insights, particularly about the possible origins of the phenomenon. www.archaeologists.net/publications...

The circle also sits immediately above active springs in a verdant, even fecund, re-entrant. Last time I visited it was busy with ravens too.

This is the sort of thing we all need in our lives.

If the Metropolitan Police did indeed break open the doors of the Grade II Listed Friends Meeting House, they may have committed a #HeritageCrime and should not be above the law @mayoroflondon.bsky.social #Quakers @quaker.org.uk do report to Historic England

As it's #HillfortsWednesday, here are a few from a recent site visit that involved a trip up Old Sarum, #Wiltshire.

I'm sure I know people who will take no pleasure in seeing this... eh, @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social ?

I've sung these words on The Fifth when the National Anthem is played in #Lewes as part of #Bonfire. My Society's HQ is next to Bull House.

Happy birthday to the only Civil War General to have a Morris dance named after him. Shame how he turned out, mind. @efdss.bsky.social

Meanwhile, there's been some interesting archival footage discovered by @bwzuk.bsky.social in the library of the Hookland Folk Dance and Song Society #Hookland youtube.com/shorts/SQprI...

Day 4 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We drape the Bell Hill Worm, remember legends of dragon-carved paths. The stuffed felt snake is an old friend. Its silver stitches glitter, its scales bounce faery light colours. When we turn away, it seems to slither to a different branch.

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

BLOG POST: What to watch next if, like me, you wish there were at least a hundred more of those 1970s BBC ghost stories for Christmas. 🎞📽 precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/11/24/t...

Such a big loss. RIP Colin Renfrew

Avoid Amazon always!

Just a few images for November from #Lewes on The Fifth. #Bonfire

I'm back. You all know why

Here's some rather lovely graffiti from the porch of the parish church in Welbourn, Lincolnshire.

That's me and the incomparable John Tams, folk singer and song maker extraordinaire. Taken after his set at #Banterfest last weekend. Yes, reader, I fangirled him.

If you're a Nigel Kneale fan then you must listen to 'You Must Listen', a new adaptation of Kneale's lost 1952 radio drama, on Radio 4 tomorrow at 2:15pm or later on catch up. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Good morning. Thanks to @danherb10.bsky.social I am here. First posting includes a picture that neatly combines many of my interests.