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Mary B
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws…
Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. #amquerying
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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · Nov 17
If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
Spike Milligan
A path in a birch wood strewn with autumn leaves
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levondymond.bsky.social
Old oak. November 2025

#oaktree #trees #nature #landscape #Scape #devon #pentax #pentaxk1 #Pentax #photography
An autumnal Oak tree grows next to a fence in a hedge on the edge of a field.
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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drrjwarren.bsky.social
#ArtDD2025
Blickling Hall, Norfolk

@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social
Rough ink and paint sketch of dutch gable against long tile roof, with central arched door, and windows in the gable, picked out in yellow sandstone. Two rose bushes climbing up the front either side of the door.
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
'Brolly and the Chocolate Factory', Southwark by Benjamin Hope
benjaminhope.net
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
'Wandsworth by Moonlight' by John Atkinson Grimshaw

(Private collection)
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
beesincampanula.bsky.social
So sad to hear Tom Stoppard has died. Absolutely loved his work ❤️
#BookWormSat 📚💙
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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nebullama.bsky.social
One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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matthewjdowd.bsky.social
happy bday Venezuelan humanist/poet Andrés Bello, b.1781.

"...Where the bird amid the branches,
In the early dawning gray,
Sings its untaught, artless music,
Greeting thus the new-born day..."
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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dmesg.bsky.social
Couple of hours at Kidwelly Quay. Siberian Chiff, 10 Rb Mergs, c30 Snipe and a few distant Pintail. #birdigWales
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩

The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!

This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!

📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely pale white in colour. It measures 2.5 cm height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. The head is gracefully lowered with a long curving neck and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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bookwormsat.bsky.social
‘It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.’ ~ The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here, growing up for
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Eleazar Albin, 1720.
An antique, hand-colored plate by Eleazar Albin, originally published in his work A Natural History of English Insects in 1749. It illustrates the life cycle of the Elephant Hawk-Moth (Deilephila elpenor) on its food source, the bedstraw plant.
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Long before the screams of the cosmonaut Pavel Mikoyan troubled the children of the county, Hookland already had its own space phantom. The 'Dan Dare ghost' has been haunting the now abandoned British space programme at RAF Nook since at least 1962. (Depiction based witness testimony).
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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bwallower.bsky.social
#SteepleSunday
On his feast day, here's St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in City.

In C13 was St Andrew juxta Baynard Castle as Med fortress was opposite. Name changed 1361 when royal stores moved nearby from Tower.
1666 Gt Fire destroyed Church+Wardrobe; church rebuilt by Wren.
Gutted in WWII, restored.
Red brick church with square tower to left. Stairs go up from street level through steep churchyard that's bound at street level by short stone wall with railings and an entry to stairs with decorative columns and iron gates. Above the churchyard, the south side of the church has a black doorway beside the tower, and to its right four short windows at the lower level placed high along that section of wall. Above a white stone strip are five taller round-arched windows above the door and short windows. The tower has one of each sort of window in line with others, plus a clock and a long, two part square window at the top. Windows and door are bounded by white stonework surrounds as are corners of the tower. The steep churchyard is indicative of the steepness of the river bank of the Thames here. The church's parishioners have included William Shakespeare, the composer John Dowland, playwright Ben Jonson and portrait painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck.
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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folkloretwitcher.bsky.social
" ..If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill ....
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!"

✍️ Rudyard Kipling, "If" #BookWormSat
Grainy photograph - 19th Century - unknown young man with slightly touseled hair and gazing away from the camera.
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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theotheralice.bsky.social
“How else to explain the curious feeling that he goes around feeling like he misses somebody he’s never even met?”

📚 D.F.Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ G.F. Watts, Self Portrait age 17

#BookWormSat #ComingOfAge
Male 17yr old: long face, serious expression, big dark eyes, curly longish brown hair. Could be Hal.
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Book Cover of the Day:
BOOKOFA HUNDRED BEARS- A TALE OF YELLOWSTONE PARK, green cover with silver lettering black decoration of little bears, forest, sun.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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flackjd.bsky.social
"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."

-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
One of the numerous covers of "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle, with art by Leo and Diane Dillon. This cover features three children (Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace) in the foreground with the Happy Medium, a clairvoyant being, standing behind them holding a crystal ball. In the background three old ladies can be seen (Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit), and behind them is a dark, ominous shadow covering part of a starry sky.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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folkloretwitcher.bsky.social
" .. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again".

✍️ C.S. Lewis, "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"
#BookWormSat
a blue sign that says no one is too old for fairytales
Alt: a blue sign that says no one is too old for fairytales
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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folkloretwitcher.bsky.social
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

✍️ Anne Frank, Her Diary #BookWormSat
Anne Frank - black and white image of her, looking to her right, slight smile on her lips
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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ullamr.bsky.social
Gravegoods from the famous princely tombs from Praeneste (modern Palestrina). Now in Villa Poniatowski in Villa Giulia in Rome. #FindsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Pompeii: How robots and AI are restoring the site’s shattered Roman frescoes | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
How robots are breathing new life into Pompeii’s shattered treasures
Many of the artefacts were damaged by bombing in the Second World War
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Goodnight from The Dominion cinema in Ashcourt, where half the audience has left after the first 10 minutes of ‘The Dead Watch’. Goodnight from the Welcome Rest roadside restaurant at Northway Corner, where the lights have suddenly turned on despite it being abandoned since 1973.
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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ruinsofdespair.bsky.social
'Boulevard in the Evening'

Isaac Ilyich Levitan 1883

#art #painting #winter
A dark, almost black-and-white painting a snowy boulevard, lined with trees and small lights. Two dark figures in female attire are walking along. Further, a few other dark figures.
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 AM
beesincampanula.bsky.social
Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort…

Jo March in Little Women
Louisa May Alcott 1868
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Young girl reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
Young Girl Reading Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1770 The painting depicts a young girl seated in profile, her hair up, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons. She is reading from a small book held in her right hand.
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 AM
beesincampanula.bsky.social
We said to him: here is your happiness, here is what you spent your whole youth looking for, here is the girl you saw in all your dreams!
How could anyone… avoid a reaction of indecision, then fear, …how could he resist the temptation to escape?
Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes
#BookWormSat
Young girl on the grass 1885 Berthe Morisot The picture shows a young girl – Isabelle Lambert – who posed for Morisot several times. Here she sits in a garden setting, her hair up under a wide brimmed straw hat, the red bodice of her stress standing out against the predominantly green background.
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
The city is layers of story. Sometimes it is told in occulted stone symbolism, sometimes in street names and haunted hodology. Thousands of narratives with no editor. Thousands of tales seeping into the city's own strange dreams. No wonder it imagines fabulous things. – #CLNolan
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM