AshOfTheShire
@ashbayliss.bsky.social
Heavy Metal Hobbit 🤘🏻LOTR, gardening, nature, folklore and the weirder side of life
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These are unsettling times.
December 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
These are unsettling times.
Mevagissey in the winter. Different vibe to summer but still beautiful. If bitterly cold!
December 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Mevagissey in the winter. Different vibe to summer but still beautiful. If bitterly cold!
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Visiting the Liverpool leg of the family today and learned that the kids in the school choir change the words of Feliz Navidad to ‘Police nabbed me dad’.
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Visiting the Liverpool leg of the family today and learned that the kids in the school choir change the words of Feliz Navidad to ‘Police nabbed me dad’.
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Telly show idea. Great Escape To The Country. A couple look around three cottages before being shot by some Germans.
December 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Telly show idea. Great Escape To The Country. A couple look around three cottages before being shot by some Germans.
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Telly show idea. Michael Stipe presents a Peter Pan themed cookery show for cannibals. Calling it That’s Smee in the Korma.
December 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Telly show idea. Michael Stipe presents a Peter Pan themed cookery show for cannibals. Calling it That’s Smee in the Korma.
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Dear AI bros, it's not AI itself we have a problem with, the kind that can detect cancers early or help people walk. May that continue. It's the content generation slop you foam at the mouth defending that we hate. It's theft and will never, EVER replace actual human creativity.
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Dear AI bros, it's not AI itself we have a problem with, the kind that can detect cancers early or help people walk. May that continue. It's the content generation slop you foam at the mouth defending that we hate. It's theft and will never, EVER replace actual human creativity.
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I don’t know how to identify a bad parent anymore. But sweeties, you’re doing great!
December 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I don’t know how to identify a bad parent anymore. But sweeties, you’re doing great!
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I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.
December 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Just getting in the Christmas mood...
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Just getting in the Christmas mood...
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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Museums, galleries & heritage sites are a forgotten part of the public sector. Austerity meant closing buildings, mothballing artefacts, laying off highly skilled staff & freezing pay for years. A national disgrace 10x worse for smaller regional institutions. Go and donate now.
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Museums, galleries & heritage sites are a forgotten part of the public sector. Austerity meant closing buildings, mothballing artefacts, laying off highly skilled staff & freezing pay for years. A national disgrace 10x worse for smaller regional institutions. Go and donate now.
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Astonishing sculpture of 60 detailed figures carved from a single block of Carrara marble ~ Francesco Bertos’ Fall of the Rebel Angels (c 1730). Suspicion that his skill was beyond human ability led to his being questioned by the Inquisition. Tks @JonathanMendel1
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October 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Astonishing sculpture of 60 detailed figures carved from a single block of Carrara marble ~ Francesco Bertos’ Fall of the Rebel Angels (c 1730). Suspicion that his skill was beyond human ability led to his being questioned by the Inquisition. Tks @JonathanMendel1
gallerieditalia.com/en/vicenza/e...
gallerieditalia.com/en/vicenza/e...
September 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Getting in touch with our Viking past in Olden
August 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Getting in touch with our Viking past in Olden
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The final dance in Dirty Dancing/The clubbing scene from Spaced mash up that no one asked for (but I made anyway)
August 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The final dance in Dirty Dancing/The clubbing scene from Spaced mash up that no one asked for (but I made anyway)
The homing pigeon that’s been hanging around our garden for the last week has disappeared.
We’ve just spotted a sparrowhawk in the garden and a large pile of feathers next door. That’s that mystery sorted
We’ve just spotted a sparrowhawk in the garden and a large pile of feathers next door. That’s that mystery sorted
August 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The homing pigeon that’s been hanging around our garden for the last week has disappeared.
We’ve just spotted a sparrowhawk in the garden and a large pile of feathers next door. That’s that mystery sorted
We’ve just spotted a sparrowhawk in the garden and a large pile of feathers next door. That’s that mystery sorted
Went to Aldi to get the kids packed lunches for next week. Came back with hammock. Classic Aldi behaviour
August 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Went to Aldi to get the kids packed lunches for next week. Came back with hammock. Classic Aldi behaviour
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those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
August 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
Rewatching all of #StrangerThings in preparation for the final series. It’s still SO good! I love all of it
August 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Rewatching all of #StrangerThings in preparation for the final series. It’s still SO good! I love all of it
The kids have come back from a weeks Scout camp in Devon. They’ve bought me a book on King Arthur and a pot of local honey. Pretty much the exact things I would have bought for myself if I were in Devon
August 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The kids have come back from a weeks Scout camp in Devon. They’ve bought me a book on King Arthur and a pot of local honey. Pretty much the exact things I would have bought for myself if I were in Devon
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Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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July 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM