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Brian Eno is right! It only takes about a minute!

September’s Folklore (136:3) features two of my reviews on books about the social supernatural & the persistence of paganism. Both richly worth the doing. Some splendid other stuff too! 😉 @uexeterpress.bsky.social @robincdouglas.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social

Thousands hit the streets in #Edmonton to collect donations for food banks www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

夕暮れのすすき𓂃꙳⋆ #キリトリセカイ #photography

#Photography #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday #Bee

We wandered ... Beijing Night Life ..

Something seems fishy for #MosaicMonday! This mosaic emblema depicts eight fish, two squid/cuttlefish, and an eel. An example of the delights of the sea that were destined for the plates of an elite dinner party. From a Roman villa at Cecchignola, Rome. 🏺 1/ 50 BCE-50 CE. #BritishMuseum 📸 me

St John's church, Glastonbury peering out of the mist. Photograph taken this morning from Glastonbury Tor on Michaelmas day.

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

reflected in the still water the reed alone #completethehaiga 118 #haiku

Violet Hunt was a fascinating, complicated woman who lived in the thick of the major art and feminist movements of her day. I'm very glad to see this new British Library edition of her supernatural stories. Naomi Booth has a good piece on Hunt and her times here: newwritingnorth.com/wp-content/u...

The number of people providing full-time unpaid care has increased massively, as the social care system approaches breaking point.

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

An intriguing brew ...

Misty Suffolk morning sunrise near Framlingham 🌞🌞

Morning All ! A beam of sunlight pierces the misty gloom in our North facing garden this morning. There is definitely a hint of Autumn in the air. #Horsechesnut #Trees #Garden #Nature #EastAnglia #EastCoastKin

Time for #BirdOfTheDay The theme is #favourite so let’s see your favourite birds. I’ve went with my own personal favourite, a feisty and inquisitive European Robin. #birds #EastCoastKin

The Sumud Flotilla is 800 miles from Gaza. Keep them in your thoughts. ##sumudflotilla #eyesongaza #freepalestine

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Norwegian woods. Atop a peak. 🇳🇴❤️

Bruges at Night, from 2019 A view of a canal in #Bruges, #Belgium with an inky-blue sky. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNights #travel #canals #reflections #photography

Thank the Gods, it's #FolkyFriday! The weekend is nearly here! 🖤 Our theme today is "Hedge Wisdom, Angel and Devils" in advance of Michaelmas on Sunday! It's said afterwards blackberries will be cursed by the Dark One, so foragers beware! Tag posts #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-6pm UK time!

"Mākereti was a trailblazer... Her legacy as an inspiration to many people in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Māori community worldwide, and scholars and students internationally, continues to this day." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An American citizen who had been detained in Afghanistan since December has been released through Qatari mediation. Amir Amiri is the fifth US citizen released this year, following last week’s release of an elderly British couple.

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🎺ANNOUNCEMENT!🎺 STORIES & SONGS: WILLS AS WINDOWS ONTO PAST LIVES Join Chris Hoban and I at #Exeter Phoenix for a unique performance of history & original music inspired by #Tudor, #Stuart & Georgian wills! 🗃️ FREE! Claim your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1738865536...

Beautiful morning on Montpelier Hill #sunrise #MondayMotivation #weather

#OwlishMonday 'Owlegarchy' Alfred Priest, member of the mid 19th cent Norwich School of painters. He specialised in maritime painting and also in rural scenes from his native Norfolk. His palette was notable for the use of "warm ochres, greens and browns" which can be seen in this parliament of owls

Thank you to Ellie Tennant & Reclaim Magazine for featuring me & mudlarking friends in our ‘burrows’, showing how we curate our precious Thames Treasures at home in sheds, studios, living rooms. Photos by the fabulous John Chase for @londonmuseum.bsky.social www.reclaimmagazine.uk/inspiration/...

The fire has burned through one-third of Etosha National Park, home to the endangered black rhinoceros.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

Today is British Home Child Day. This is the annual day that Canada acknowledges and honours the over 100,000 children who were sent from the UK to Canada to work on farms and in homes. They were separated from siblings and many were abused. This is their story. 🧵 1/12

Every time I visit Fellsfjara beach it's different - sometimes littered with tiny pieces of ice, sometimes crammed full of enormous icebergs, other times just a few dotted around. Occasionally there's no ice at all... This was one of those "a few dotted around" times. #Iceland April '23.

The Blessed Virgin feeding the Christchild, a lovely 15th Century fragment worked up with other fragments into a roundel, and now reset in oddly inappropriate quarries at Newcastle Anglican Cathedral, the building's only medieval glass. #StainedGlassSunday

Detail from the Tree of Jesse window (c.1330-40) at Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire. 📸 My own. #StainedGlassSunday #DorchesterAbbey

This Buzzard was poisoned by a large dose of second generation rodenticide. I discovered it in a Dorset Bluebell wood this April. Please find some time today to complete the consultation. These poisons are such a clear and present danger to our wildlife.

The elephant pretends to eat this gentleman's hat! ♥️ #bluesky #animals #natuer #wildlife

🧶♥️ Makers unite. We knit at dawn. Portland prepares for war.

Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia): This Endangered species of large cat has a population of between 4000-8000 & is native to Alpine & sub-Alpine terrain in regions of Afghanistan, Mongolia & WestChina. Poaching is the main threat & habitat loss thru development. Photo by Sascha Fonseca in Ladakh, India.

And, thou away, the very birds are mute:    Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,    That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. Sonnet 97 #ShakespeareSunday Allegories of Autumn: Albert Pinkham Ryder, Spirit of Autumn, 1875, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA.

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What are you doing this October? Reading a spooky short story or poem a day with us? I should hope so! Join the #AScareADay challenge (or just pick a few stories to read and get some new authors to be a fan of!) romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/t...

“Beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned.” -Sonnet 104 #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #Autumn #Fall 🍂🍁🥮 @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #SweetHomeChicago 😍

The government wants to limit international student numbers. Yet only 1% of the public think reducing them should be a priority. Exchanges expand horizons, break down prejudice, build global understanding. Why the resistance? Jenny Rhodes reports

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but in one night, A storm or robbery, call it what you will, Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, And left me bare to weather. Cymbeline 3: #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

Visiting the Hellfire or Massy’s Wood today please remember to leave NO trace. #litter #SundayMorning