For someone who rejected being placed in any box and being given titles, there is every risk of becoming a birder! This little grebe is perfectly formed but I also secured many shots of it dissappearing under the water too. They are not easy! #UKWildlife #littlegrebe #birds #photography #sonyalpha

Joanna Koerten (Dutch 1630-1715) painter, draughtswoman, pioneer in the art of paper cutting (silhouettes) #womensart

Male Epistrophe eligans hoverfly on a Bramble leaf in Ely last weekend. #WildWebsWednesday #Hoverflies #Diptera

Another late entry for #wildflowerhour. I blame the clock tinkering. I don’t know what time it is most days but now I shall be jiggered for a week. Anyway, there are so many English Bluebells out in my corner of South-east England already that the choice is obvious - plus Wood Anenomes.

Have you seen a Cowslip in bloom this year? This week’s challenge is to find one and share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday using the hashtag #CowslipChallenge. Happy flower hunting! 💛

Hand ground watercolour on khadi paper by Zarah Hussain, artist who creates mathematically precise, geometric art inspired by Islamic Geometry #WomensArt

Goodnight from the photo booth on Ashcourt Wall rail station, spoiling hopes for passports and travel cards with its phantom additions. Goodnight from Thea Mayford, her cunning compass pointing to True Faery North and the hidden path up Wardstone Tor. Goodnight from Hookland.

...of a bear was carved from amber 10,000 to 8,000 years ago. Found on the west coast of Fanø, from a submerged settlement of the Mesolithic period. Bears played an important role in the life of hunters, figurines such as this were worn as pendants. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. 🧵2/2

WOW, I just hit 19k followers! When I joined Bluesky in July 2023, I never imagined things would take off like this. The exodus from X was clearly waiting to happen, I’m so glad it did. It’s great to see such a large community of archaeology enthusiasts here! Thank you all! This figurine...🧵1/2 📷me

"Pink Moon Over Water". Georgia O'Keeffe. 1923 #WomensArt #fullmoon #Pinkmoon

In villages around Long Barton there is always pub discussion about why signposts to it remain broken. Some argue its wartime hangover, artefacts of a desire to disorientate possible Nazi invaders. Others say it's to deter ghost tourism, pokers of phantoms so often being an irksome sort.

Celandines. March 2026 #celandines #flowers #wildflowers #wildflowerhour #BloomScrolling #nature #sonyalpha #photography

Pink and Yellow Tulips 1925 by Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt #April

Rider-Waite (Rider-Waite-Smith) tarot, 1st edition (1909) designed by artist, illustrator and writer Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith - (The Fool card) #WomensArt #AprilFoolsDay

Goodnight from Ellie Bracken, praying for kind angels to watch her walk home from shelf-stacking shift. Goodnight from PC Danning, bemused at being called out to reports that a silver-suited spaceman is bothering the all-night Phoenix garage at Bickbury again. Goodnight from Hookland.

Sometimes you don't have to search for an answer as to why certain doorways are sealed. Instinctually you know. It's to stop something terrible getting out. When you run your hands across them you can feel invisible lines of warding. Sigils set in the stone. – Vicky Pender #VOH

...the world-famous Margarete Steiff GmbH, known for inventing the Teddy Bear. Steiff’s plush animals, each marked with the iconic “button in the ear,” continue to bring joy to children and adults alike. 🧵2/2

Visiting the Steiff Museum today! 🧸 When Margarete Steiff made her first little elephant in 1880, she unknowingly sparked a global phenomenon: the world of plush toys. Born in 1847 and living with the effects of polio, Margarete defied expectations of her time to found what became...🧵1/2 📷 me

The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall, UK #womensart

Hannah Woodman, contemporary british landscape painter #Womensart

#HooklandCats - an occasional series: Bobby Fastpaw, Prince of St. Mary’s Boneyard.

It is not all about the birds. Though sometimes when you see a bird in motion it becomes all about the birds. A tufted duck looking somewhat shy! #ukwildlife #birds #tuftedduck #wildlifephotography #photography #nature

Detail from the ‘Four Season Mosaic’ depicting ‘Spring’ from Roman York (Eboracum). The mosaic was discovered in 1853 at Tanners Row in York, and is now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #YorkshireMuseum

Gorgeous Bronze Age 'dress fastener' needs our help so that it can be bought by Potteries Museum in Stoke. If we can't, it will be handed back to finder/landowner & likely sold at auction... 😭 Donate here: www.justgiving.com/charity/pmag... www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/the-ell... #Archaeology 🏺

Un bassin romain, du mobilier, des céramiques et des ossements : importante découverte archéologique à Aix-les-Bains. #Archéologie france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/auvergne-rho...

#Exposition à #Paris : de Marie-Antoinette à Vivienne Westwood, le Palais Galliera fait revivre la #mode du XVIIIe siècle. www.connaissancedesarts.com/metiers_art/...

Sometimes as a witch I will go those places in the wood where winter lingers and sing spring's green songs. Not as summoning, but as blossom reminder, as hope of returning chiffchaff chorus. Whether I do this to remind myself of renewal or the wood becomes blur. – #EmilyCBantingt #WitchSky

The villagers of Clare cum Ashen believe there is a terrible spirit which lives on the far bank of the River Stannis from them. None will say much of it in case talk provokes. Trapped by running water, they make annual prayers against drought with a fervour that only comes from a fear of doom.

New research: The Aromas of Pompeii’s Household Altars. An international team of researchers investigated ash residues from incense burners. The substances they discovered show that Pompeii was part of a global trade network. www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...

Stephanie Kelly Clark, textile artist known for her embroidered 'thread paintings' #womensart

Mary Delany (1700-1788), English Bluestocking artist, used decoupage to make botanical 'Paper Mosaiks' #womensart

Goodnight from the Temple Hill Marshalling Yard, its train shunters spooked by the sound of hissing steam despite all its engines being diesel. Goodnight from Jim Hankins, trying to capture felled hazel’s anger against axe in the Wood Sprite puppet he’s carving. Goodnight from Hookland.

Hydrant #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #art #pentax

Children claim it a Wood Sprite bones. None of them will admit to being afraid of it, but in all their frantic bonefire gathering – Pale Eve, Midsummer and Guy Fawkes – they leave it alone. Even in death, Wood Sprites infest their imaginations, Demand terror tithe. – Joanna Vickers #VOH

Adorable wooden horses on wheels were pulled around by little ones in the past, too. A timeless reminder that play has been part of the human experience for millennia. From Egypt, Roman period, 30 BC-150 AD. 📷 Julia Thorne/Manchester Museum 🏺

...representation of the dishes most favoured by the upper class during holy feasts. Dating 4th century AD. 🧵2/2

For #MosaicMonday a detail of a mosaic in the basilica of Aquileia depicting #snails in a basket. The meaning of the motif is unclear. It was suggested that it is a symbol of resurrection, as snails are hibernating animals. But it was also argued that the motif is a symbolic ...🧵1/2 📷me

Some hold to the misguided belief farmland does not sing to the witch. They fetishize ferality to the point they exclude the truth that every place has it songs. Fields sing of what is buried below, sing of libation thirst. Their tangled borders are spirit trap. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

As an author, I treat the boneyard as a resource. Its gravestones are lithic library. Rarely will I walk its paths without being gifted a character's name, a tale to tell. It whispers to me. The dead desire to talk and it would be rude to ignore them. – #CLNolan

Marmalade, 2021 by US painter Leah Gardner #womensArt

English stained glass artist Ann Sotheran, 'Isa's hare' (2011) #WomensArt

Māori weaving, or raranga, is a traditional art of identity, heritage and expression of spirituality. The patterns woven into items such as cloaks and baskets all have meaning #womensart

Cover illustration for 'The Moomins and the great flood' (1945) by author/illustrator Tove Jansson #WomensArt

Marisol Misenta, aka Isol, Argentine artist and illustrator of children's picture books #womensart #Monday

Goodnight from Bill Radleigh, bringing his pint glass down on the table like a gavel to dismiss further mention of that odd business up at Arkwell Hall. Goodnight from Long Bickbury, where Children-Made-of-Thorns are lurking the lane for pub strays returning home. Goodnight from Hookland.

Naughty dogs and naughty children walking over wet clay tiles 2,000 years ago, now immortalised. 🏛️ Fishbourne Roman Palace / @romanpalace.bsky.social 📷mine 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

This is not a painting, it's the view from beneath an ancient oak. www.facebook.com/groups/86337...

Goodnight from Hannah Suttle, wondering if it’s subsisting on a diet of Silk Cut and Black Bombers that’s causing her to see visions of the Victorian dead. Goodnight from Del Fuller, certain there’s something more than powdered bone in Mother Kemp’s aphrodisiac. Goodnight from Hookland.

There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. . . . There’s fennel for you, and columbines. Hamlet, act 4, scene 5. #ShakespeareWeek #BookWormSat 🎨John Everett Millais

"....I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. ...” ✍️William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 🎨Roman wall painting of Flora, 1-45 AD #BookWormSat