If you'd like to support my writing & ongoing treatment, why not visit my little Etsy shop which has dozens of Shell County & Natural History posters for sale, Japanese prints, English etchings & rare books: prices from £10, with more items added every day! Offers welcome. etsy.com/shop/Sourisd...

Hay making in the hot sun and two beautiful red kites were circling the farmer as he made his way across the old monastic fields.

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I recently joined @annelouiseavery.bsky.social’s Patreon and got home last night to a lovely surprise - a handwritten card from Old Fox himself with news of his friends and pressed flowers from the village. A genuine treat! Thank you Anne and Old Fox. 🦊

🦊 Need an exciting and subversive summer read? Why not buy my book Reynard the Fox, described by Marina Warner as "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling." bodleianshop.co.uk/collections/...

Reynard the Fox is available in print and as an audiobook. 🦊 If you're curious, my full review is here (it's not long): theunhurriedreader.substack.com/p/the-origin...

#ForSale #ShellGuides #JohnLeigh-Pemberton #LifeInTheSky

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For sale! The iconic Shell Guide to Life in the Sky by John Leigh-Pemberton. Greylag geese, buzzards, kestrels, skylarks, swallows, swifts & house martins swoop & dive between pipistrelle, long-eared & horseshoe bats. Price: £50. Dm or purchase from my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

This #Warwickshire map by #WilliamHole depicts the county in beautiful, whimsical detail. The maps were produced to be coloured at home, as an aid to learning England’s geography. There must be someone in love with #16thC #C16th #Shakespeare #EarlyModernHistory who’d adore it.

Reynard the Fox is a ravishing mediæval folk tale for grown-ups about an anthropomorphic animal world where pageantry and penalty go paw-in-paw. Its onomatopoeic, synaesthetic language is as rich and sweet as its detailed confections. It is a book of hawthorn blossom, hay-making and courtly cunning.

Overslept, and have just opened the curtains to a world that could have come straight from the first page of Reynard the Fox by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social:

It's a brilliant book 👇 🦊

Definitely recommend this book! It's beautifully written and full of crafty characters.

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🦊 Need an exciting and subversive summer read? Why not buy my book Reynard the Fox, described by Marina Warner as "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling." bodleianshop.co.uk/collections/...

I would like to call my Papa on the telephone today, said Wolf at breakfast. Old Fox came to sit next to Wolf & poured him a cup of cocoa. And he explained, as he did every couple of months, that Wolf's father had died, many years ago. He had loved Wolf greatly, but he had died.

Still available! Make me an offer if you are interested!

Do visit Souris des Moissons on Etsy. There are lovely things to buy, there. And every purchase will support the writing and recovery of @annelouiseavery.bsky.social.

The redstarts are back, said Wolf, who was sitting in a sheltered spot in the kitchen garden eating saffron buns. Look, over in the hazel trees. I'm going to talk to them, Old Fox, want to hear about the desert & Dakar & everything. I would perhaps let them settle in first, said Old Fox.

Attention, historians of Georgian London! I have a beautiful aquatint of the Royal Exchange for sale, published by Ackermann in 1816. A fascinating scene, with the famous grasshopper on top of the tower & the crowded shop windows. DM or go straight to my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

I have just bought an original 50s poster ‘Shell Guide to Monmouthshire’ by the Great Bardfield artist, Walter Hoyle. It is BEAUTIFUL. Check out Anne Louise’s Etsy.

If you'd like to support my writing & ongoing treatment, why not visit my little Etsy shop which has dozens of Shell County & Natural History posters for sale, Japanese prints, English etchings & rare books: prices from £10, with more items added every day! Offers welcome. etsy.com/shop/Sourisd...

Attention, historians of Georgian London! I have a beautiful aquatint of the Royal Exchange for sale, published by Ackermann in 1816. A fascinating scene, with the famous grasshopper on top of the tower & the crowded shop windows. DM or go straight to my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

This is outstanding! #ForSale #GeorgianLondon #Aquatint #c18th #18thC #c18 #LongEighteenthCentury #Ackermann #RoyalExchange tinyurl.com/4ssaw6p7

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Attention, historians of Georgian London! I have a beautiful aquatint of the Royal Exchange for sale, published by Ackermann in 1816. A fascinating scene, with the famous grasshopper on top of the tower & the crowded shop windows. DM or go straight to my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Attention, historians of Georgian London! I have a beautiful aquatint of the Royal Exchange for sale, published by Ackermann in 1816. A fascinating scene, with the famous grasshopper on top of the tower & the crowded shop windows. DM or go straight to my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

I would like to call my Papa on the telephone today, said Wolf at breakfast. Old Fox came to sit next to Wolf & poured him a cup of cocoa. And he explained, as he did every couple of months, that Wolf's father had died, many years ago. He had loved Wolf greatly, but he had died.

Thinking of the extraordinary Ronald Avery 🕊️ and his equally extraordinary daughter @annelouiseavery.bsky.social with love today. 🤍

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#ForSale #JapaneseWoodblockPrint #ItōItōSōzan #WatanabeShōzaburō

For sale! An elegant 1920s Japanese woodblock print by Itō Itō Sōzan (伊藤 草山), published by Watanabe Shōzaburō. It depicts a white egret resting on the branch of a willow tree on a dark and stormy afternoon. DM for more details and to buy or visit my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

For sale! A rare 400-year-old mythical map of Warwickshire by William Hole. Published in 1612, it shows Shakespeare's Forest of Arden, the Vale of the Red Horse & the Rollright Stones. Dm for details & price, or go to my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/MLzIe

My cousin's husband, photographer Thomas Scheier, and Gopolang Ledwaba working on a wonderful project in Soweto. The journalist is my other cousin, Julie! How Photography Is Changing Lives in Soweto:- youtu.be/0x6bNIeATEk?...

I do enjoy it when two or more of my favourite writers dovetail. I’ve been a huge fan of @annelouiseavery.bsky.social stories, set mostly in beloved & magical Dorset, for almost seven years, now. Your styles could not be less alike, yet there is a sense of harmony in your essential compassion.

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Garlanding for May Day 🌿🌱🍃

Garlanding for May Day 🌿🌱🍃

Wolf, you're wise to stay inside at least if not in bed on days when ghosts are about. (Although camping out in the kitchen so Old Fox doesn't have to bring your meals on a tray would work.)

#StMark'sEve #OldFox'sCottage

💛 This writing…! Pine Marten *read the lines aloud: "The old house where star & rose come and go." And suddenly, his eyes smarted with tears…he would think of Old Fox's cottage in that way - the cold winter stars wheeling above the downs, the honey-scented roses furling the door and every window*

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon (from 2021 b/c Shakespeare's Birthday) - Wolf's "Rose by Any Other Name Cake, or, Will Shakespeare's Birthday Cake" #OldFoxCommunity (Wolf, Old Fox, Pine Marten, Babcia, Herr Professor Hedgehog) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/posts/wolfs-...