Joy Parry
@joy13.bsky.social
"Some stranger, somewhere, still remembers you because you were kind to them when no one else was."
Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.
Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.
#WyrdWednesday
Lenape myth tells how, during a bitterly cold winter, Rainbow Crow sacrificed his gentle voice & colourful plumage to collect a burning branch from the Sky Spirit & save fellow animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
🎨Davina Behin Jones
Lenape myth tells how, during a bitterly cold winter, Rainbow Crow sacrificed his gentle voice & colourful plumage to collect a burning branch from the Sky Spirit & save fellow animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
🎨Davina Behin Jones
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#WyrdWednesday
Lenape myth tells how, during a bitterly cold winter, Rainbow Crow sacrificed his gentle voice & colourful plumage to collect a burning branch from the Sky Spirit & save fellow animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
🎨Davina Behin Jones
Lenape myth tells how, during a bitterly cold winter, Rainbow Crow sacrificed his gentle voice & colourful plumage to collect a burning branch from the Sky Spirit & save fellow animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
🎨Davina Behin Jones
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"... [Efnisien/Efsnysien] crept in among the dead bodies of the Irish, two Irishmen came to him and cast him into the cauldron. He stretched himself out in the cauldron, so that the cauldron burst into four pieces, and his heart burst also."
The Mabinogion
🎨T Prytherch
"... [Efnisien/Efsnysien] crept in among the dead bodies of the Irish, two Irishmen came to him and cast him into the cauldron. He stretched himself out in the cauldron, so that the cauldron burst into four pieces, and his heart burst also."
The Mabinogion
🎨T Prytherch
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"... [Efnisien/Efsnysien] crept in among the dead bodies of the Irish, two Irishmen came to him and cast him into the cauldron. He stretched himself out in the cauldron, so that the cauldron burst into four pieces, and his heart burst also."
The Mabinogion
🎨T Prytherch
"... [Efnisien/Efsnysien] crept in among the dead bodies of the Irish, two Irishmen came to him and cast him into the cauldron. He stretched himself out in the cauldron, so that the cauldron burst into four pieces, and his heart burst also."
The Mabinogion
🎨T Prytherch
Weekend trip to London to see the brilliant Lion King - after a wander round Covent Garden ...
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Weekend trip to London to see the brilliant Lion King - after a wander round Covent Garden ...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles is one of the most heartbreaking books ... 💔
"Having begun to love you, I love you forever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself."
~ Thomas Hardy,
𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑’𝑈𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
~ Thomas Hardy,
𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑’𝑈𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Tess of the d'Urbervilles is one of the most heartbreaking books ... 💔
#MythologyMonday
The Mabinogion says of Arthurian knight Cai "When the rain was heaviest, whatever he held in his hand would be dry for a handbreadth before and behind, because of the greatness of his heat, and when his companions were coldest, he would be as fuel for them to light a fire”.
🎨14C MS
The Mabinogion says of Arthurian knight Cai "When the rain was heaviest, whatever he held in his hand would be dry for a handbreadth before and behind, because of the greatness of his heat, and when his companions were coldest, he would be as fuel for them to light a fire”.
🎨14C MS
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#MythologyMonday
The Mabinogion says of Arthurian knight Cai "When the rain was heaviest, whatever he held in his hand would be dry for a handbreadth before and behind, because of the greatness of his heat, and when his companions were coldest, he would be as fuel for them to light a fire”.
🎨14C MS
The Mabinogion says of Arthurian knight Cai "When the rain was heaviest, whatever he held in his hand would be dry for a handbreadth before and behind, because of the greatness of his heat, and when his companions were coldest, he would be as fuel for them to light a fire”.
🎨14C MS
#MythologyMonday
As it approaches death, the Phoenix makes a nest of aromatic herbs which it sets fire to. The Phoenix is reborn in an identical form ...
13th C English Bestiary [@britishlibrary.bsky.social]
& Northumberland Bestiary [J Paul Getty Museum]
As it approaches death, the Phoenix makes a nest of aromatic herbs which it sets fire to. The Phoenix is reborn in an identical form ...
13th C English Bestiary [@britishlibrary.bsky.social]
& Northumberland Bestiary [J Paul Getty Museum]
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#MythologyMonday
As it approaches death, the Phoenix makes a nest of aromatic herbs which it sets fire to. The Phoenix is reborn in an identical form ...
13th C English Bestiary [@britishlibrary.bsky.social]
& Northumberland Bestiary [J Paul Getty Museum]
As it approaches death, the Phoenix makes a nest of aromatic herbs which it sets fire to. The Phoenix is reborn in an identical form ...
13th C English Bestiary [@britishlibrary.bsky.social]
& Northumberland Bestiary [J Paul Getty Museum]
#BookWormSat
"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass."
Edward Thomas - Thaw
🎨Alexei Savrasov
"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass."
Edward Thomas - Thaw
🎨Alexei Savrasov
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#BookWormSat
"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass."
Edward Thomas - Thaw
🎨Alexei Savrasov
"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass."
Edward Thomas - Thaw
🎨Alexei Savrasov
#BookWormSat
"... the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families. These myriads of cows stretching under her eyes from the far east to the far west outnumbered any she had ever seen at one glance before ..."
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
🎨Unknown Artist [Pinterest]
"... the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families. These myriads of cows stretching under her eyes from the far east to the far west outnumbered any she had ever seen at one glance before ..."
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
🎨Unknown Artist [Pinterest]
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#BookWormSat
"... the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families. These myriads of cows stretching under her eyes from the far east to the far west outnumbered any she had ever seen at one glance before ..."
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
🎨Unknown Artist [Pinterest]
"... the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families. These myriads of cows stretching under her eyes from the far east to the far west outnumbered any she had ever seen at one glance before ..."
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
🎨Unknown Artist [Pinterest]
#BookWormSat
"... Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ..."
Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village
📷Godwick Deserted Village, Norfolk
"... Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ..."
Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village
📷Godwick Deserted Village, Norfolk
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#BookWormSat
"... Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ..."
Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village
📷Godwick Deserted Village, Norfolk
"... Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ..."
Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village
📷Godwick Deserted Village, Norfolk
#BookWormSat
"... [this visit to Helstone] had not been exactly what she expected. There was change everywhere ... a great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days ..."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
"... [this visit to Helstone] had not been exactly what she expected. There was change everywhere ... a great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days ..."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#BookWormSat
"... [this visit to Helstone] had not been exactly what she expected. There was change everywhere ... a great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days ..."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
"... [this visit to Helstone] had not been exactly what she expected. There was change everywhere ... a great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days ..."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
#FolkyFriday
"The Nine Men's Morris is fill'd up with mud"
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nine Men's Morris - also known as Merelles, Merrils or Mill - was common by Shakespeare's time. Carvings of boards exist in Indian temples, Christian churches and even on barrels on the Mary Rose.
"The Nine Men's Morris is fill'd up with mud"
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nine Men's Morris - also known as Merelles, Merrils or Mill - was common by Shakespeare's time. Carvings of boards exist in Indian temples, Christian churches and even on barrels on the Mary Rose.
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
#FolkyFriday
"The Nine Men's Morris is fill'd up with mud"
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nine Men's Morris - also known as Merelles, Merrils or Mill - was common by Shakespeare's time. Carvings of boards exist in Indian temples, Christian churches and even on barrels on the Mary Rose.
"The Nine Men's Morris is fill'd up with mud"
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nine Men's Morris - also known as Merelles, Merrils or Mill - was common by Shakespeare's time. Carvings of boards exist in Indian temples, Christian churches and even on barrels on the Mary Rose.
Trumplestiltskin's "Peace Plan" basically means Ukraine must give Russia everything it wants - and Europe must just sit back and wait a couple of years for Putin to invade the rest of Ukraine or any neighbouring country it wants to. Sadly, The US is now as much of an enemy of Europe as Russia ... 😢
Trump's 28-point Ukraine peace plan in full - including land Kyiv must hand to Russia and when elections must be held
Trump's 28-point Ukraine peace plan in full - including land Kyiv must hand to Russia and when elections must be held
Donald Trump's plan for ending the war in Ukraine would hand swathes of land to Russia and limit the size of Kyiv's military, a draft has revealed.
news.sky.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Trumplestiltskin's "Peace Plan" basically means Ukraine must give Russia everything it wants - and Europe must just sit back and wait a couple of years for Putin to invade the rest of Ukraine or any neighbouring country it wants to. Sadly, The US is now as much of an enemy of Europe as Russia ... 😢
Reposted by Joy Parry
This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: HOT & COLD!
a woman is talking to another woman with the words he 's hot he 's cold
ALT: a woman is talking to another woman with the words he 's hot he 's cold
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: HOT & COLD!
#FolkyFriday
Arthur & Owain are so engrossed in their game of Gwyddbwyll that they ignore Ravens swooping down "on the men who had previously caused them injury, pain & loss" and carrying off their heads, eyes, ears & arms behind them!
[The Mabinogion]
Arthur & Owain are so engrossed in their game of Gwyddbwyll that they ignore Ravens swooping down "on the men who had previously caused them injury, pain & loss" and carrying off their heads, eyes, ears & arms behind them!
[The Mabinogion]
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#FolkyFriday
Arthur & Owain are so engrossed in their game of Gwyddbwyll that they ignore Ravens swooping down "on the men who had previously caused them injury, pain & loss" and carrying off their heads, eyes, ears & arms behind them!
[The Mabinogion]
Arthur & Owain are so engrossed in their game of Gwyddbwyll that they ignore Ravens swooping down "on the men who had previously caused them injury, pain & loss" and carrying off their heads, eyes, ears & arms behind them!
[The Mabinogion]
While the government lied about putting a "protective ring" around Care Homes, those of us working in them saw the reality - people with covid, often with dementia, sent back to care homes where they infected numerous residents and staff. Boris Johnson and his ministers have blood on their hands ...
Today's report makes for devastating reading for all those who lost loved ones to Covid.
The actions of Boris Johnson and his colleagues led to thousands upon thousands of avoidable deaths.
Those who presided over that failure have no place in public life.
The actions of Boris Johnson and his colleagues led to thousands upon thousands of avoidable deaths.
Those who presided over that failure have no place in public life.
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
While the government lied about putting a "protective ring" around Care Homes, those of us working in them saw the reality - people with covid, often with dementia, sent back to care homes where they infected numerous residents and staff. Boris Johnson and his ministers have blood on their hands ...
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
#WyrdWednesday
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#WyrdWednesday
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
Never thought I would be celebrating a Scotland win, but we were on the edge of our seats until those two fabulous goals in added on time. Congratulations Scotland! Great win! 👏👏
#Scotland #WorldCup
#Scotland #WorldCup
Scotland secure World Cup spot for first time since 1998 after beating Denmark
Scotland secure World Cup spot for first time since 1998 after beating Denmark
Scotland secured a place at the World Cup for the first time since 1998 after beating Denmark 4-2 in a thrilling match at Hampden Park.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday
The not-so-romantic tale of the Princess and the Frog Prince!!
The not-so-romantic tale of the Princess and the Frog Prince!!
#FairyTaleTuesday
The spell on the Frog Prince is broken, according to the Grimms, not with a romantic kiss, but by the Princess picking him up between two fingers and hurling him against the wall with the words "Now you will have your peace, you disgusting frog!"
🎨Arthur Rackham & Walter Crane
The spell on the Frog Prince is broken, according to the Grimms, not with a romantic kiss, but by the Princess picking him up between two fingers and hurling him against the wall with the words "Now you will have your peace, you disgusting frog!"
🎨Arthur Rackham & Walter Crane
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday
The not-so-romantic tale of the Princess and the Frog Prince!!
The not-so-romantic tale of the Princess and the Frog Prince!!
Lovely quote from the wonderful Middlemarch ♥️
"We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born."
~ George Eliot
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
~ George Eliot
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Lovely quote from the wonderful Middlemarch ♥️
#FairyTaleTuesday
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
#MythologyMonday
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#MythologyMonday
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
#MythologyMonday
Abandoned by her father [who wanted a son], Atalanta was raised by a bear, then adopted by hunters. A skilled archer & huntress, able to outrun all opponents, she took part in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar & joined the crew of the Argo.
🎨HD Johnson * Eyt & Thijs * Unknown
Abandoned by her father [who wanted a son], Atalanta was raised by a bear, then adopted by hunters. A skilled archer & huntress, able to outrun all opponents, she took part in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar & joined the crew of the Argo.
🎨HD Johnson * Eyt & Thijs * Unknown
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
#MythologyMonday
Abandoned by her father [who wanted a son], Atalanta was raised by a bear, then adopted by hunters. A skilled archer & huntress, able to outrun all opponents, she took part in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar & joined the crew of the Argo.
🎨HD Johnson * Eyt & Thijs * Unknown
Abandoned by her father [who wanted a son], Atalanta was raised by a bear, then adopted by hunters. A skilled archer & huntress, able to outrun all opponents, she took part in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar & joined the crew of the Argo.
🎨HD Johnson * Eyt & Thijs * Unknown
Flooded path at Fakenham [Norfolk] river walk - Milo carefully picked his way around the puddles so as not to get his feet wet! These beautiful swans on the river Wensum were enjoying the hazy sunshine after all that rain ...
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Flooded path at Fakenham [Norfolk] river walk - Milo carefully picked his way around the puddles so as not to get his feet wet! These beautiful swans on the river Wensum were enjoying the hazy sunshine after all that rain ...
#ShakespeareSunday
"When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves."
Henry VI [i]
🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves."
Henry VI [i]
🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
"When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves."
Henry VI [i]
🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves."
Henry VI [i]
🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti