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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 19h

I love Phil’s books, especially the Merrily Watkins series, and was so sad when he died last year. His final Merrily book is coming out next month.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 19h

I …. a to be read pile with only 8 books in it is, as far as I’m concerned, a very well managed pile indeed. I don’t count mine. I only worry when the physical one gets dangerous!

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 1d

Arrived home to find my copy of Old Songs, Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads by Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns waiting for me. So that’s my weekend reading sorted!
Also tagging @alysdragon.bsky.social in case you didn’t know about it, since I think this is very much your wheelhouse.

Front cover of the book “Old Songs, Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads” by Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns. The illustration is of a woman in a white dress with petticoats dancing in a graveyard.

Contents page of Old Songs. The text reads:

Contents
Foreword ix
Chapter One
Tam Lin; or, Janet, Who Won
Chapter Two
Willie's Lady; or, Evil Knots and Golden Horseshoes
29
Chapter Three
Alison Gross; or, Worm and his Sister
51
Chapter Four
Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight; or, The Pools of the Dead
75
Chapter Five
The Twa Sisters; or, The Murderer Revealed
95

Second contents page for Old Songs. The text reads:

Chapter Six
The Maid and the Palmer; or, The Sinful Woman
II3
Chapter Seven
The Demon Lover; or, The Ship with Taffeta Sails
133
Chapter Eight
The Trees So High; or, Marriage to One Too Young
I51
Chapter Nine
The Brown Girl; or, Fantasy's Revenge
169
Chapter Ten
Thomas the Rhymer; or, The Fairy Queen's Revolt
189
Epilogue
215
The Ballads
219
Acknowledgements 261
Further Resources 263
Index 269

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 1d

How is saying “this person is a convicted stalker” gossip ffs? That’s just sharing a fact. Those writers have the self preservation instincts of a concussed lemming.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 2d

It’s for spooky season!

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sorry Soph, you don’t deserve that sort of treatment. Sending hugs.

👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks. I adore them and Wales is a treasure trove of close encounters.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 3d

Belated #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy because I spent a long weekend in Wales for my bestie’s 40th birthday and it completely slipped my mind. Have views galore and a - fairly impressive for a phone camera - shot of one of many Red Kites I’ve seen about the place #birds 🪶

Trig point on Twyn y Gaer in Bannau Brycheiniog in wildly changeable weather. The trig point is a white flat topped pyramid with a Welsh Dragon painted on each side, surrounded by a muddy puddle. The hills beyond are a patchwork quilt of fields and the sky is a whorl of clouds and hints of blue.

Llangors Lake at dawn with the crannog just left of centre and the start of Bannau Brycheiniog in the background. The sky is steaks of grey white cloud and china blue, reflecting in the lake surface which is also tinted gold by the rising sun on the ripples made by the ducks.

The top of the viewing hut for the crannog behind a swathe of bulrushes and other reeds, with Bannau Brycheiniog in the background, Cefn Cyff glowing in the dawn light. The sky looks like watercolour paint swirling in water, shades of grey and blue and purple and gold dripping through each other.

A red kite in flight against a blue sky hazy with faint grey cloud. The kite has their wings fully lifted so their red body, white head and underwing markings - red to black with a white patch on the top half - are clearly visible.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much, it’s so very kind.

👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 3d

Sending many hugs and much house clearing fortitude xxx

👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 3d

The NHS booking system wouldn’t let me book. The GP surgery said carers weren’t included when I asked and so did the pharmacy. When I mentioned the green book - because you kindly told me about it last year - they said the new advice for this year overruled it.

👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 4d

I paid again for that, just the flu free!

👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 4d

I am and I have, thank you x

👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 4d

I too have never made it and feel you are correct about this being the right time of year to try!

👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 8d

Good thank you! About to pack the car and head to Wales for @catthegeek.bsky.social’s birthday celebrations

👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 8d

I’m sorry they’ve been so crap!

a drawing of two hands hugging a heart with the words " a virtual hug " below it

Alt: a drawing of two hands hugging a heart with the words " a virtual hug " above it

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 8d

a raccoon is standing in the grass with its arms outstretched and says " sending you a big hug " .

Alt: a raccoon is standing in the grass with its arms outstretched. The text around it reads " sending you a big hug ❤️" .

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 9d

They’re all original and complete pieces created specifically for the book, so stories, essays and poems - 43 in all.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 9d

Adding a link so you can read all about and get yourself a copy of you’d like:
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

The Book of Bogs

This new anthology from over forty writers, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy Liptrot, Alys Fowler and Patti Smith explores peatlands and bogs, and argues for their importance.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 9d

My copy of The Book of Bogs - edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - has arrived from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social and look how lovely this important book looks! And it’s full of wonderful work from fantastic authors, too.

Front cover of The Book of Bogs, featuring the stunning artwork called Autumn Comes To Walshaw Dean by Angie Rogers. I am holding the book in my left hand and the nail varnish on my thumbnail, a russet brown colour, matches the colourway of the bog depicted.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 10d

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 10d

I’m so sorry!

a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

Alt: a drawing of a ghost that says ghost hug you can 't feel it but it 's there .

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 11d

I just paid £85 for mine so I don’t put my parents, who I care for full time, at more risk (thankfully they do qualify). I’m trying to feel grateful the NHS still give me the flu jab for free but yeah, it all feels very paltry and wrong.

👻Kizziaaargh Wildway👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 11d

Hope you’re feeling better today! Xx