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#PostBoxSaturday Rodborough Ave, Stroud.

#PostBoxSaturday A nice ERII, Stroud.

#Folklore Pisces the Fishes. No 12 from Lucky Charms, a series of 50 Wills’s Cigarette Cards (published 1923). I will be posting one a day. The art is splendid and the information provided is an intriguing 1920s perspective on lucky charms and associated folklore

"Lo!" A translation of the Anglo-Saxon Poem of Beowulf, 1837 John Kemble 🇬🇧

May I never grow too old to be interested in bits of stone & old china that I’ve found in the garden & elsewhere. #PocketMuseum #Geology #BlueAndWhiteChina #GardenTreasures

If you are in Stroud, Gloucestershire make sure you catch the last day of the art exhibition at the old police station tomorrow (Sat 8th November. There are many wondrous things to behold. The old police station is on the roundabout at Beeches Green at the junction with the Slad Road.

When you need to put some distance between you and everything else, play this loudly on your ear buds as you walk around. One of the finest pieces of music ever created. youtu.be/zndpi8tNZyQ?...

"Lo" Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, 1926 J.R.R. Tolkien 🇬🇧

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Tonight’s viewing / listening.

Current mood

Are you looking for some fine fox/fossil art? Them look no further. @mariastrutz.bsky.social can meet all your needs.

I've been a Labour voter for most of my adult life, but they have so lost their way. I voted Lib Dem at the last Election, but I'm not seeing any strong strategies there. It's got to be @greenparty.org.uk. Don't let Reform turn our country into Trumpland. Please listen to @zackpolanski.bsky.social

In his 'Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain', Leslie Grinsell lists barrows said to be haunted by headless ghosts at: Barrow Hills, Cornwall; Inkpen, Berkshire; Litchfield, Hampshire; Roundway, Wiltshire; and Bisley, Gloucestershire. What think you @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social ?

#FungiFriday A much nibbled giant puffball. Apparently I am not the only thing that finds them delicious.

#Folklore Aquarius the Water Bearer. No 11 from Lucky Charms, a series of 50 Wills’s Cigarette Cards (published 1923). I will be posting one a day. The art is splendid and the information provided is an intriguing 1920s perspective on lucky charms and associated folklore

At the age of 41, Ralph Vaughan Williams volunteered as an ambulance driver in WWI. He saw the horror of the war firsthand, and his experiences haunted the music he created subsequently.

I feel the urge to confess. I've tried not to, but I just can't help myself. I really like 99Luftballons German version (obvs) arg youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY?...

@gotpies.bsky.social @tomsbrown.bsky.social @debonnairemerry.bsky.social help! help! I'm convinced that bloke from Jamiroquai is going to leap out of some shrubbery and do that funny dance thing at me wearing that buffalo hat thing .... arg

I am astounded by this.It was used as a key text in my psychology degree.I later went on to teach the subject& recommended it to students.To find out now that it is so ethically dubious is appalling. Most classic psychology seems to have been a vehicle for career driven narcissists. It still is

#AdoorableThursday The priests door into the chancel of The Church of St Nicholas, Cherington.

#Folklore Capricornus the Goat no 10 from Lucky Charms, a series of 50 Wills’s Cigarette Cards (published 1923). I will be posting one a day. The art is splendid and the information provided is an intriguing 1920s perspective on lucky charms and associated folklore

"Yes" Beowulf: A New Prose Translation, 1966 Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson 🇬🇧

Enchanting and delightful art from Maria. I have seen a fox run over a long barrow but never under a full moon.

#WyrdWednesday Burn Baby Burn The Lyke Wake Dirge details the hazards faced by your soul after death.The punishment for being uncharitable is explicit. “If meat or drink thou ne'er gav'st Every night and all The fire shall burn thee to thy bone And Christ receive thy soul” youtu.be/ThjOXqCQUm4?...

"So!" Beowulf, 2004 Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy 🇺🇸

#Folklore Sagittarius the Archer no 9 from Lucky Charms, a series of 50 Wills’s Cigarette Cards (published 1923). I will be posting one a day. The art is splendid and the information provided is an intriguing 1920s perspective on lucky charms and associated folklore

Please read the alt text on this. Superb commentary from @shakethescales.bsky.social

"Lo!" Beowulf: Translated into English Verse, 1926 D.H. Crawford 🇬🇧

"Listen!" Beowulf: A Graphic Novel, 2006 Jonathan Fetter-Vorm 🇺🇸

Looks like a good day for America, a good day for decency and democracy, a good day for hope. New York, New Jersey, Virginia, California, Pennsylvania, links in the chain that can bind the fascist GOP and sink it in the Hudson River. Now, galvanise, organise, and finish the job in the mid-terms.

Wondrous art from that Thomas S Brown.

#ThickTrunkTuesday Just a perfect oak, in the fields, in autumn.

#Folklore Sorpio the Scorpion no 8 from Lucky Charms, a series of 50 Wills’s Cigarette Cards (published 1923). I will be posting one a day. The art is splendid and the information provided is an intriguing 1920s perspective on lucky charms and associated folklore

A fine video from that Cameron Self.

Tuesday #morningread

"Quiet!" Beowulf, a translation-in-progress, 1999 Tim Romano 🇺🇸

#NotYourFavourite (158) #MusicChallenge This is just for fun! Spontaneously name a song by the artist/band pictured - but not your absolute favourite. Enjoy the moment 🤗 youtu.be/kwOxTpdbDPw?...

"What!" Beowulf: Anglo-Saxon Text with Modern English Parallel, 1975 John Porter 🇬🇧

I always say folklore is a living current and should never be treated as ink stasis, this book manifests that.

Speaking as a person from a small village in England I ain't no hobbit and there isn't a single village in the country where anything remotely like that has actually happened. When is the British government going to quit using this man's lying machine and use Bluesky for announcements instead?

Another informative, witty and intriguing podcast from John Grindrod. If you don’t listen to Monstrosities Mon Amour…you really should. It’s good for you and you will enjoy it and…well you just should. So there. That’s it.

"Attend!" Beowulf: A Verse Translation, 1973 Michael J. Alexander 🇬🇧

#Folklore Libra the Balance no 7 from Lucky Charms, a series of 50 Wills’s Cigarette Cards (published 1923). I will be posting one a day. The art is splendid and the information provided is an intriguing 1920s perspective on lucky charms and associated folklore

"Hail!" Beowulf, 1929 James D. McCallum 🇺🇸

Fortean timeline for a Welsh Call of Cthulhu Sourcebook. Inspiration from the ever wonderful @hookland.bsky.social

#WildFlowerHour The gorgeous berries of spindle out today.

#wildflowerhour Some very late Garlic Mustard (Jack by the Hedge), Alliaria petiolata flowering today.