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"Yes, mon ami, there is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!"~Hercule Poirot
Here for #DrWho #AgathaChristie #JaneAusten #BookWormSat #ShakespeareSunday & #Cats of course
Here for #DrWho #AgathaChristie #JaneAusten #BookWormSat #ShakespeareSunday & #Cats of course
Pinned
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“no farther than a wanton's bird,
Who lets it hop a little from his hand, like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves” - R&J (Act 2,
Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #SleepyHollow @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
Who lets it hop a little from his hand, like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves” - R&J (Act 2,
Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #SleepyHollow @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 4:46 AM
“no farther than a wanton's bird,
Who lets it hop a little from his hand, like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves” - R&J (Act 2,
Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #SleepyHollow @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
Who lets it hop a little from his hand, like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves” - R&J (Act 2,
Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #SleepyHollow @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
"I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn
To any living creature: believe me, la,
I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:
I trod upon a worm against my will,
But I wept for it."
Pericles
Act 4, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Creatures great & small
To any living creature: believe me, la,
I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:
I trod upon a worm against my will,
But I wept for it."
Pericles
Act 4, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Creatures great & small
a cat with a caption that says of all the things in the world that have never happened
Alt: Closeup of a brown-striped tabby cat giving side-eye with a caption that reads "Of all the things in the world that have never happened... That has never happened the most."
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January 18, 2026 at 3:03 AM
"I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn
To any living creature: believe me, la,
I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:
I trod upon a worm against my will,
But I wept for it."
Pericles
Act 4, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Creatures great & small
To any living creature: believe me, la,
I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:
I trod upon a worm against my will,
But I wept for it."
Pericles
Act 4, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Creatures great & small
"But it is no matter.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day."
Hamlet
Act 5, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Creatures great & small
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day."
Hamlet
Act 5, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Creatures great & small
a dog standing next to a cat hanging from a door that says where is he on it
Alt: Gif of a dog standing in a doorway, looking around. A cat is hanging from the door frame above, not yet noticed by the dog. It is captioned "WHERE IS HE?"
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January 18, 2026 at 2:59 AM
"But it is no matter.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day."
Hamlet
Act 5, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Creatures great & small
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day."
Hamlet
Act 5, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Creatures great & small
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January 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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‘Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.’
AMND 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
AMND 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
January 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM
‘Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.’
AMND 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
AMND 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
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#BookWormSat
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot - Adam Bede
🎨Sandro Botticelli
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot - Adam Bede
🎨Sandro Botticelli
January 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
#BookWormSat
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot - Adam Bede
🎨Sandro Botticelli
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot - Adam Bede
🎨Sandro Botticelli
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‘This," I thought, "is power! Not to be strong of limb, hard of heart, ferocious, and daring; but kind, compassionate and soft.’ ~ The Last Man, Mary Shelley. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, c.1818.
🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, c.1818.
January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
‘This," I thought, "is power! Not to be strong of limb, hard of heart, ferocious, and daring; but kind, compassionate and soft.’ ~ The Last Man, Mary Shelley. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, c.1818.
🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, c.1818.
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#BookWormSat
"The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go."
Emily Brontë
"The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go."
Emily Brontë
January 17, 2026 at 3:19 PM
#BookWormSat
"The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go."
Emily Brontë
"The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go."
Emily Brontë
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#BookWormSat
"Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
"Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
January 17, 2026 at 3:08 PM
#BookWormSat
"Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
"Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
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“I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others- of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty and for whom I feel no respect.” Jane Austen - Lady Susan
#BookWormSat
🖼️ = Rolinda Sharples - The Cloakroom (cover of my ancient Penguin edition 😏)
#BookWormSat
🖼️ = Rolinda Sharples - The Cloakroom (cover of my ancient Penguin edition 😏)
January 17, 2026 at 2:54 PM
“I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others- of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty and for whom I feel no respect.” Jane Austen - Lady Susan
#BookWormSat
🖼️ = Rolinda Sharples - The Cloakroom (cover of my ancient Penguin edition 😏)
#BookWormSat
🖼️ = Rolinda Sharples - The Cloakroom (cover of my ancient Penguin edition 😏)
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'The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain,
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Júlia Sardà
#BookWormSat
Are black with autumn rain,
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Júlia Sardà
#BookWormSat
January 17, 2026 at 6:14 PM
'The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain,
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Júlia Sardà
#BookWormSat
Are black with autumn rain,
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Júlia Sardà
#BookWormSat
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The early morning moon smiles her crooked smile, but her silence lies on the dark side. She is but a sliver waning away, but she shall return.
More in alt text.
More in alt text.
January 17, 2026 at 1:24 PM
The early morning moon smiles her crooked smile, but her silence lies on the dark side. She is but a sliver waning away, but she shall return.
More in alt text.
More in alt text.
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"There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for." ~ Peter De Vries
January 17, 2026 at 11:38 AM
"There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for." ~ Peter De Vries
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‘One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—
One need not be a House—
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing
Material Place’ ~ Emily Dickinson. #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Haunted House,
James Ferrier Pryde, 1866–1941
One need not be a House—
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing
Material Place’ ~ Emily Dickinson. #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Haunted House,
James Ferrier Pryde, 1866–1941
January 17, 2026 at 9:29 AM
‘One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—
One need not be a House—
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing
Material Place’ ~ Emily Dickinson. #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Haunted House,
James Ferrier Pryde, 1866–1941
One need not be a House—
The Brain has Corridors—surpassing
Material Place’ ~ Emily Dickinson. #BookWormSat
🖼️ The Haunted House,
James Ferrier Pryde, 1866–1941
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 1847
#BookWormSat
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 1847
#BookWormSat
January 17, 2026 at 7:03 AM
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 1847
#BookWormSat
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 1847
#BookWormSat
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‘My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.’ ~ Anne Brontë
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of C19th women’s literature in honour of Anne Brontë’s birthday.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of C19th women’s literature in honour of Anne Brontë’s birthday.
January 17, 2026 at 9:22 AM
‘My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.’ ~ Anne Brontë
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of C19th women’s literature in honour of Anne Brontë’s birthday.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for a #BookWormSat of C19th women’s literature in honour of Anne Brontë’s birthday.
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Very much looking forward to colour sprouting from the garden again, I’m bored of brown and grey. I’ll just keep stitching them from my mind until then! 😉 Here’s some snippets taken from my embroideries, some of them from quite long ago… 🪡🌺🌿🪻🌱🌷🌸 #stitchedart #embroidery #thesewingsongbird
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Very much looking forward to colour sprouting from the garden again, I’m bored of brown and grey. I’ll just keep stitching them from my mind until then! 😉 Here’s some snippets taken from my embroideries, some of them from quite long ago… 🪡🌺🌿🪻🌱🌷🌸 #stitchedart #embroidery #thesewingsongbird
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I've reached my lifetime quota for "interesting times." Give me bland times. Boring times. Normie times, one could even say. Times that are both dull and unexciting. Load me up with times that feel stale and uninspiring. That's the good stuff right there.
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I've reached my lifetime quota for "interesting times." Give me bland times. Boring times. Normie times, one could even say. Times that are both dull and unexciting. Load me up with times that feel stale and uninspiring. That's the good stuff right there.
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‘The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.’
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Thomas Sully
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Thomas Sully
January 17, 2026 at 6:27 AM
‘The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.’
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Thomas Sully
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Thomas Sully
"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."
-Sense and Sensibility
#JaneAusten
#BookWormSat
-Sense and Sensibility
#JaneAusten
#BookWormSat
January 17, 2026 at 5:42 AM
"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."
-Sense and Sensibility
#JaneAusten
#BookWormSat
-Sense and Sensibility
#JaneAusten
#BookWormSat
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Morning.
🖼️ Fiona Watson
🖼️ Fiona Watson
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Morning.
🖼️ Fiona Watson
🖼️ Fiona Watson
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🖼️ A Parliament of Rooks, Fiona Watson.
January 16, 2026 at 5:27 AM
🖼️ A Parliament of Rooks, Fiona Watson.
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"There is pleasure in the pathless woods”
(Byron)
🎨 Häli Väisänen
(Byron)
🎨 Häli Väisänen
January 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods”
(Byron)
🎨 Häli Väisänen
(Byron)
🎨 Häli Väisänen