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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Sep 15

Agreed! We did Stonehenge the same day, & it was so crowded - it’s difficult to feel any sense of magic then

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Sep 14

❤️❤️ Avebury, summer 2025

#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircle #StandingStones

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Sep 14

My fave stone. Yeah, hugged it

Avebury, summer 2025

#StandingStoneSunday #StandingStone #StoneCircle

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Aug 27

Lonely sea and skies. Although what you can’t see is the herd of family corralled behind me, ready to stampede past 😆

#photos #phonephotos #Pembrokeshire #PembrokeshireCoast

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is fascinating, an exploration of Paganism‘s history & practices. It nimbly assesses its sources & is so knowledgeable, exploding a few myths (see below!) & really making me think.

Written with a most pleasing dry wit too. Recommend ❤️

#booksky #bookrecommendations #books #pagan

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Aug 10

#Castlerigg

Just look at those moody mountains. And beautiful stones, in their saucy little Neolithic way.

I can highly recommend this one for stone circle fans, it’s spectacular ❤️

#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Aug 10

#Castlerigg

The most stunning setting for a stone circle, surely. Plus really photogenic stones.

No wonder the Romantics strode about writing about nature & stuff. This place gets you like that.

#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles #RomanticPoets #Wordsworth #Literature #Poetry

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Aug 10

Swinside - a wonderfully remote & peaceful standing stone circle. Although I think maybe a few stones didn’t get the brief

#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircle #StandingStones

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Aug 2

She was an elfin pinnace

#booksky #literature #Wordsworth #poetry #kayaks #Lakes

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Jul 27

Ah, thanks. So, Steve joins me in the garden …

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Jul 27

Pete, joining me for an evening glass of wine in the garden.

Is this a peregrine falcon, anyone? If not, I’ll have to rename him

#birds #bluebirdsky #britishbirds #gardens #gardenbirds

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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @andysaunders-1.bsky.social · Jul 21

Apollo 11.
Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969.
Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Jul 9

😆 Excellent!
At this stage I either forget about hands or about controlling for wine. I think I may be looking at the longest running experiment ever

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · Jul 2

I have questions …

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Jun 27

That chance visit to an art gallery, and there’s a piece by one of your favourite sculptors there ❤️
I may have had to be dragged away from it by a friend. And I may or may not have been blowing kisses to it (quietly) 😗

Look at it, though

#art #sculpture #gallery #BarbaraHepworth #Amgueddfa

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Jun 15

Utterly fascinated by this, about hands in dreams.

Realised I’ve never dreamt about hands. Weekend spent focusing on them to try to induce a dream & test the theory. So far, no luck.

May have to control for wine.

#booksky #books #bookrecommendations #neuroscience #psychology #dreams

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · Jun 9

‘Music will often take me like the sea!’
When clouds are low
Or in clear ether, I towards my pale star,
Set sail and go;’

Baudelaire

#booksky #literature #bookrecommendations #poetry #Baudelaire #TheFlowersOfEvil

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Jooli-AHH! Ghoulia 🎃🍂🔪 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · Jun 3

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · May 31

Friday

#art #ArtGallery

Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · May 28

Vowed yesterday not to buy more books. Immediately bought this.

It’s so good! Psychology, science, anthropology of dreams, looking at patterns across regions & times, brain activity etc.

Feel I can research this by napping, too, so 👍🏻

#booksky #bookrecommendations #science #neuroscience #books

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · May 25

The King’s Stone

Looking particularly regal today, if I may say so

#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircle #standingstones #standingstonesunday
#RollrightStones

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · May 25

This is how we roll, right?

#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircle #standingstones #standingstonesunday

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · May 23

Cheers 🍸

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · May 17

It’s Friday night—time to swap stress for gin and sin.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · May 16

As thus he sat beneath an oak
An acorn fell abruptly
And smote his nose: whereat he spoke
Of acorns most corruptly.

Fables for the Frivolous (1899) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fables-for-the-frivolous-1899

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Michelle Maurice @michellemuhrees.bsky.social · May 16

I’m finally getting round to reading some #Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil.

I wonder if he was inspired by Marvell’s Coy Mistress? Quite a few worms as memento mori for beauty - suitably passionate & grim, carpe diem. He did love a juxtaposition.

#booksky #poetry #literature #bookrecommendations

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