morrismummer
@morrismummer.bsky.social
History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. And Morris dancer and Mummers player.
A French entry for #SurprisedChurches.
Eglise Notre-Dame ou Saint-Laurent à #Jézeau (#HautesPyrénées) L'église aurait été construite au XIIe siècle par les Templiers et ...
Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00095381/jezeau-eglise-notre-dame-ou-saint-laurent
Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00095381/jezeau-eglise-notre-dame-ou-saint-laurent
January 24, 2026 at 5:26 PM
A French entry for #SurprisedChurches.
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I too have bought an apocalypse-proof boat, with an array of weaponry
January 24, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I too have bought an apocalypse-proof boat, with an array of weaponry
Gruesome but interesting!
My latest Lichfield Lore post ‘Caught Red-fingered’ could be subtitled ‘Don’t mess with the wrong bloke from Stoke’. Disclaimer: Do not read whilst you are eating please.
And if you do know where I can lay hands on that bottle of spirits, do let me know 👉👉👉
lichfieldlore.co.uk/2026/01/24/c...
And if you do know where I can lay hands on that bottle of spirits, do let me know 👉👉👉
lichfieldlore.co.uk/2026/01/24/c...
Caught Red-fingered
If ever there was an instance of picking on the wrong person, it was at Fenton Toll Gate on a January morning in 1834. Mr Dawes, a surgeon from Stoke on Trent, was walking back home from Lane End, …
lichfieldlore.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Gruesome but interesting!
Chateau d'Harcourt, Chauvigny, Great Hall. There are five castles in Chauvigny, and it's difficult to find information on any of them, even online. Access is limited, too. All very frustrating!
January 24, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Chateau d'Harcourt, Chauvigny, Great Hall. There are five castles in Chauvigny, and it's difficult to find information on any of them, even online. Access is limited, too. All very frustrating!
The River Carron, Dunipace.
January 24, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The River Carron, Dunipace.
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Why does ignoring climate change consequences somehow remind me of cigarette ads in the 20th C?
CO2 must be good for us too....
CO2 must be good for us too....
January 24, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Why does ignoring climate change consequences somehow remind me of cigarette ads in the 20th C?
CO2 must be good for us too....
CO2 must be good for us too....
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The Hell Mouth of the Doom painting at South Leigh, Oxon, is quite an eye catcher. We see those people who were not selected for Heaven forming a queue for the fiery depths of Hell helped along by gremlins with sharp forks. Nobility, clergy and lesser mortals in life are on their way down!.
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The Hell Mouth of the Doom painting at South Leigh, Oxon, is quite an eye catcher. We see those people who were not selected for Heaven forming a queue for the fiery depths of Hell helped along by gremlins with sharp forks. Nobility, clergy and lesser mortals in life are on their way down!.
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Charles Ginner's picture is a closely focused view of a lichen covered blackthorn tree, which tilts towards his sister's house in Boscastle, a village on the north coast of Cornwall near the Devon border. He first painted here in 1915 and continued to do so until 1947.
January 24, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Charles Ginner's picture is a closely focused view of a lichen covered blackthorn tree, which tilts towards his sister's house in Boscastle, a village on the north coast of Cornwall near the Devon border. He first painted here in 1915 and continued to do so until 1947.
St Nicholas, Trellech, Monmouthshire for #SteepleSaturday.
January 24, 2026 at 8:52 AM
St Nicholas, Trellech, Monmouthshire for #SteepleSaturday.
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
Tonight I shall be out with the lads of Taunton Deane Morris Men doing a bit of wassailing.
Old apple tree, we wassail thee
And hoping thou will bear
Hat fulls, cap fulls, three bushel bags full
And a little heap under the stairs.
Hurrah!
Old apple tree, we wassail thee
And hoping thou will bear
Hat fulls, cap fulls, three bushel bags full
And a little heap under the stairs.
Hurrah!
January 23, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Tonight I shall be out with the lads of Taunton Deane Morris Men doing a bit of wassailing.
Old apple tree, we wassail thee
And hoping thou will bear
Hat fulls, cap fulls, three bushel bags full
And a little heap under the stairs.
Hurrah!
Old apple tree, we wassail thee
And hoping thou will bear
Hat fulls, cap fulls, three bushel bags full
And a little heap under the stairs.
Hurrah!
This is an interesting thread, but this post is beautiful.
I say to the police that it's important to us, to have the bones back. That whoever they belonged to wanted to be buried, here, at this church. That even though time separates us, time is nothing to God, and they are still part of our community. I say we want to bring them home. To rebury them.
January 23, 2026 at 1:25 PM
This is an interesting thread, but this post is beautiful.
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"Long before we had Artificial Intelligence we had Actual Idiocy, which served largely the same purpose"
January 23, 2026 at 12:22 PM
"Long before we had Artificial Intelligence we had Actual Idiocy, which served largely the same purpose"
St Mary's, Hurley, Berkshire for #FontsOnFriday. Early C15. The church interior has been pretty much gutted of anything else medieval after what Pevsner called a 'brutal' restoration of 1852.
January 23, 2026 at 10:51 AM
St Mary's, Hurley, Berkshire for #FontsOnFriday. Early C15. The church interior has been pretty much gutted of anything else medieval after what Pevsner called a 'brutal' restoration of 1852.
Every time I see this photo of this little boy in his bobble hat, my heart breaks a little bit more. It's incredibly distressing. And I don't have children. I can only imagine his pain and fear, and that of his parents.
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ICE detains 5-year-old Minnesota boy; school leader says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos as “bait” to try and draw family m...
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January 22, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Every time I see this photo of this little boy in his bobble hat, my heart breaks a little bit more. It's incredibly distressing. And I don't have children. I can only imagine his pain and fear, and that of his parents.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Strange. I thought it had been destroyed already by a coalition of hard-right loonies...
January 22, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Strange. I thought it had been destroyed already by a coalition of hard-right loonies...
Marshall Zhukov would like a word.
Donald Trump's grandparents were German speaking Bavarians.
January 21, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Marshall Zhukov would like a word.
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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
So there really was a Molly Windley.
I had a gal, a rare nice gal, down in Wroxham way,
She were whooly nice ter me in the ole school days.
Heard this song a lot in Suffolk growing up.
I had a gal, a rare nice gal, down in Wroxham way,
She were whooly nice ter me in the ole school days.
Heard this song a lot in Suffolk growing up.
Molly Windley RIP 👇https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25783856.obituary-singing-postmans-muse-molly-windley-dies-92/
Singing Postman's muse Molly Windley who 'smook like a chimley' dies at 92
Obituary: She is said to have "smook like a chimley" yet Norfolk’s Molly Windley lived to a ripe old age before her death at 92.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:34 PM
So there really was a Molly Windley.
I had a gal, a rare nice gal, down in Wroxham way,
She were whooly nice ter me in the ole school days.
Heard this song a lot in Suffolk growing up.
I had a gal, a rare nice gal, down in Wroxham way,
She were whooly nice ter me in the ole school days.
Heard this song a lot in Suffolk growing up.
For St Agnes' Day, St Agnes Well, Cothelstone, Somerset. This may not be a holy well, however. The name may date from the reign of Henry VII when Edward Stawel who married an Agnes, daughter of John Cheyney of Pinhoe Devon. It seems likely that the well was associated with the saint in the 1800.
January 21, 2026 at 2:28 PM
For St Agnes' Day, St Agnes Well, Cothelstone, Somerset. This may not be a holy well, however. The name may date from the reign of Henry VII when Edward Stawel who married an Agnes, daughter of John Cheyney of Pinhoe Devon. It seems likely that the well was associated with the saint in the 1800.
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Friday's lecture gets a meme:
January 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Friday's lecture gets a meme:
For #TombTuesday, here is St Mary's, Hurley, Berkshire. It was formerly the nave of Hurley Priory, and has an impressive line up of tomb slabs down the aisle. Cont'd...
January 20, 2026 at 5:43 PM
For #TombTuesday, here is St Mary's, Hurley, Berkshire. It was formerly the nave of Hurley Priory, and has an impressive line up of tomb slabs down the aisle. Cont'd...
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Flint nodule, Thorpeness beach, Suffolk. Possibly from glacial deposits and eroded out. (Flint is not usually found here in the Sandlands.)
January 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Flint nodule, Thorpeness beach, Suffolk. Possibly from glacial deposits and eroded out. (Flint is not usually found here in the Sandlands.)
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Nestled in the centre of a small village in the Welsh countryside, St Mary's, Derwen is renowned for its wondrous collection of medieval woodwork.
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January 19, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Nestled in the centre of a small village in the Welsh countryside, St Mary's, Derwen is renowned for its wondrous collection of medieval woodwork.
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