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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 8h

"Bro!"
Beowulf: A New Translation, 2020
Maria Dahvana Headley 🇺🇸

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 10h

Huffity puffity Ringstone Round…
#Quatermass

youtu.be/H7VaYrtSjoE

Ringstone Round (Huffity, Puffity,...)

YouTube video by Phillip Evans

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 10h

Old Winchester Hill, looking east towards Butser Hill and the Meon Valley. The Bronze Age barrows stand out beautifully in the foreground — the colours of the surrounding fields were stunning today. 🌾🍂 #SouthDowns #Hampshire #LandscapePhotography

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 10h

You say potato & I say potato. Potato. Potato. Potato. Potato. er…er… might need to re think this…

Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 10h

Holly

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 11h

I’m looking forward to the return of the redwings

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 11h

Phew!

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 11h

Undoubtedly the most handsome bird in the garden. Just look at that beak.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 11h

eeek

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 11h

Always the finest fox/pumpkin art from @mariastrutz.bsky.social

Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 15h

First prompt for Guild Eleven Mysterium
Mine has morphed into 'Precious Pumpkin-lings'; a fox having collected a hoard of delicious little pumpkins for winter 🦊🌖🍂
#Guild11Mysterium

a sitting fox facing the viewer surrounded by pumpkins, pumpkins hanging on vines above the fox. In the nightly sky an orange full moon. line drawing and water colours, Maria Strutz

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 11h

I used to read Misty in secret. If I could go back I would read it loud and proud. The best stories in comics at the time.

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David Waywell @davidwaywell.bsky.social · 13h

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 12h

🎧 Four days left to listen!

Live at the BBC Proms: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko in Respighi's Pines of Rome and Vaughan Williams's 'A London Symphony'.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Listen here 👇

BBC Proms - 2025 - BBC Proms: Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’ - BBC Sounds

Live at the BBC Proms: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 12h

The male Blackbird, fully-emerged from his late summer moult.
Everyone declares him the most handsome bird in the garden...
#ukbirds #nature

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 12h

The party leading in opinion polls and the Opposition say global warming doesn't matter, drill baby drill.

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 12h

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 11h

#FolkloreThursday
Black Annis A hag with a taste for human flesh (especially children). She is said to haunt the countryside of Leicestershire. From the Reader’s Digest Folklore Myths & Legends of Britain. Illustration by George Tute.

A woodcut style of illustration showing a horrific hag-like figure in the undergrowth with two dead children grasped in her claws. A crescent moon is in the sky.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 19h

One evening in the 19th C a farmhand was returning to Penrhyn Isaf, near Penrhyndeudraeth, when he saw 'a brilliant meteor' in the sky, followed by 'a hoop of fire' which landed and two little people got out of it. Then they made a circle on the ground. [1/2
#FolkloreThursday #fairies #faery

My photo of Penrhyn Isaf, near where an unusual encounter with fairies took place. It is a modest, grey stone building with a slate roof and a slender tree (possibly birch) growing in front of it.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 17h

arg

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 18h

Thread-
Fob Watch
9th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

Treelike hand holds an eldritch pocket watch under the moon.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 18h

New episode coming soon - from a new UK location.

Here's September's episodes ICYMI:

282 - Night train to Paris (*sleep safe)
> bit.ly/LenGdA1

281 - Night rain in the Pyrenees (sleep safe with chimes)
> bit.ly/LenStLr1

280 - Pyrenees thunder above watery valley (45mins)
> bit.ly/LenStLs1