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Paul Carter

@paulpics.bsky.social

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Photography, Art, Nature, Space, History, Folklore, Music (Prog fan), Hammer Horror fan, NW England #ProgRock #Genesis #BigBigTrain #HammerHorror #Tolkien #Vegan🌱🦉

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 6h

You’d have had 500 likes for this with a hashtag.

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Cryptid Club @cryptid-club.bsky.social · 18h

#MARE A mare is a malicious entity in folklore that walks on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares. The mare was believed to ride horses, which left them exhausted and sweaty by the morning. She could also entangle the hair of the sleepers, resulting in "marelocks."

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 9h

There are times I really hate using public transport. There’s a gang of loudmouth cocky teenagers at the back of this bus giving me a headache. 2 women puffing away on vapes and the Wetherspoons crew down at the front. 4 racist blokes, pissed-up to the eyeballs. - I’ll be getting a taxi tomorrow.

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CurlyQ42 @curlyq42.bsky.social · 10h

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 18h

Anyone would think you didn’t like him.😂😂😉

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 1d

I like the sound of that. Thanks for the recommendation!🙂👍

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

The tangled dead, root-pulled from above and below, feel scratches upon long vanished, phantom flesh. Their fancy houses have become cells where they wait on visitors who never come. Necropolis bounded and more than half-forgotten, many of them ache for hell. – #CLNolan

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 1d

Just read someone on here say they’re back off to Twitter ‘cause there’s too much American politics on here. Good luck with that!😂

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Tarot Interviews @tarotinterviews.com · 3d

Enjoying Britain’s Folklore Year by Mark Norman: maypoles, wicker giants, antler dances. A perfect autumnnal read! Pairs well with piping hot apple and cinnamon tea.

#booksky #folklore #customs

Mark Norman's Britain's Folklore Year sits on a crocheted cushion

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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 4d

I'm just about to step inside this "fairy ring", so if you don't hear from me for a few hundred years...

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 5d

A WARNING FOR THE CURIOUS Spooky sculptures by Philip Jackson including Cloister Conspiracy, The Sentinels, Dangerous Liaison. Perfect for #31DaysofHalloween 🎃

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 2d

It started off okay but went downhill all the way. Was hoping for a much more supernatural ending!

Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 2d

Well, I didn’t think anyone would be watching it anytime soon!😆

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my god, this is not the film I thought it was going to be! They kept their brother in the cellar for 30 bloody years! No wonder he turned into a beast.

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 3d

It’s rare I come across a British Horror on YouTube I haven’t seen before, but this is a new one on me. Set in Lancashire. Haven’t seen much of the beast yet, but some nice character acting. #Horror #BritishHorror #TheBeastInTheCellar

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 3d

I did that once with a scone. Woke up spitting crumbs and raisins.

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 3d

Just watched The Hound Of The Baskervilles. 1957 version. Moody enough, but I’m convinced it’s the worst Sherlock Holmes story. There’s almost no mystery.

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CurlyQ42 @curlyq42.bsky.social · 3d

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 3d

How did I not see this yesterday?! What a wonderful post!😍

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 4d

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘October’
(From a 1958 calendar by the always fabulous Ronald Lampitt)

A scene on a busy, beautifully tended allotment. The star of the scene is the wonderfully delicate, slightly hazy October light.

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Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 4d

A digital detox always helps Nick! I think we could all do with some of that.

Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 4d

I’m convinced they already have somewhere. I get a lot coming into the house during early summer, through little gaps in the doors I think. It’s annoying!

Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, your head is still on Ron.👍

Paul Carter @paulpics.bsky.social · 4d

🙂👍