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If Ghost stories across the ages are your thing, RN is a great time to subscribe to Anne's Patreon. (& Wolf, who loves ghost stories - the gorier the better - & Old Fox, who knows & tells lots of them will send you a very sweet welcome card when you join.)
Old Fox's series of ghost stories begins on my patreon today with "The Scarlet Crown"! A collection of blood-tingling, gothic stories of unquiet graves, haunted rings & long-dead Roman legions. Join for these & thousands of other tales & recipes! patreon.com/annelouiseav...
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If Ghost stories across the ages are your thing, RN is a great time to subscribe to Anne's Patreon. (& Wolf, who loves ghost stories - the gorier the better - & Old Fox, who knows & tells lots of them will send you a very sweet welcome card when you join.)
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If a story touches your heart, send Anne a hot chocolate (Ko-fi) in appreciation. If they all do, join her Patreon. All tiers have access to all the tales (& recipes). Wolf & Old Fox will send you a very sweet welcome card when you do. Today is a good day to subscribe.
☕️ If you like my stories, then why not support my daily writing and buy me a nice hot chocolate over on Kofi. It's very, very helpful at the moment, as I can't work as much as I would like because of my health. ko-fi.com/annelouiseav...
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If a story touches your heart, send Anne a hot chocolate (Ko-fi) in appreciation. If they all do, join her Patreon. All tiers have access to all the tales (& recipes). Wolf & Old Fox will send you a very sweet welcome card when you do. Today is a good day to subscribe.
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There is an old prayer much favoured in Hookland which I offer up today for my friends in America: Protect us from the tyranny of troubled spirits and make them as smoke upon the wind. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
There is an old prayer much favoured in Hookland which I offer up today for my friends in America: Protect us from the tyranny of troubled spirits and make them as smoke upon the wind. #NoKings
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I don’t know what you see!? But. This looks to me like a very kind rock said
“Sweet tree, you look like you could use a place to sit and rest, please come sit with me.”
And the tree sat down and they have been great friends ever since😊🌳🪨💜💜
#RockinTuesday
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“Sweet tree, you look like you could use a place to sit and rest, please come sit with me.”
And the tree sat down and they have been great friends ever since😊🌳🪨💜💜
#RockinTuesday
#EastCoastKin
August 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I don’t know what you see!? But. This looks to me like a very kind rock said
“Sweet tree, you look like you could use a place to sit and rest, please come sit with me.”
And the tree sat down and they have been great friends ever since😊🌳🪨💜💜
#RockinTuesday
#EastCoastKin
“Sweet tree, you look like you could use a place to sit and rest, please come sit with me.”
And the tree sat down and they have been great friends ever since😊🌳🪨💜💜
#RockinTuesday
#EastCoastKin
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This patreon has so much lovely content, a beautiful world
🌕 Over my patreon, I post much longer stories and recipes, including Ermine and Sea Otter's Moon-viewing Rum and Coconut Cake! Perfect for this last great moon of summer! And there are over a thousand other tales and essays and receipts in the archives!🌕 www.patreon.com/posts/ermine...
August 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This patreon has so much lovely content, a beautiful world
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for every immigrant tethers two worlds together with embroidered garlands of words, of sweets, of flowers, of children, of dreams, turning strangers into friends and planting seeds of incalculable good.
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
for every immigrant tethers two worlds together with embroidered garlands of words, of sweets, of flowers, of children, of dreams, turning strangers into friends and planting seeds of incalculable good.
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And in their minds, Madeira became not just a distant island of flowers, floating untethered in the blue Atlantic swell, but an island of friendship, of beauty and interest –
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
And in their minds, Madeira became not just a distant island of flowers, floating untethered in the blue Atlantic swell, but an island of friendship, of beauty and interest –
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became affectionately know as "Madeiring" in honour of the Stoat, who was often seen staggering under the weight of his flowers at births and funerals and marriages and dinner parties, and at the first delicate hints of love in the Maying Dorset land.
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
became affectionately know as "Madeiring" in honour of the Stoat, who was often seen staggering under the weight of his flowers at births and funerals and marriages and dinner parties, and at the first delicate hints of love in the Maying Dorset land.
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When he moved to England and opened his little shop in Dorchester, he determined to impart the profound love and pride of the Madeirenses for their flora to his new neighbours, preparing such extravagant bouquets that any particularly successful attempts at floral arrangement in Old Fox's village
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When he moved to England and opened his little shop in Dorchester, he determined to impart the profound love and pride of the Madeirenses for their flora to his new neighbours, preparing such extravagant bouquets that any particularly successful attempts at floral arrangement in Old Fox's village
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carefree frogs singing in the valleys, and levadas, water channels like serpents twisting through the wild fuchsias and the starry myriads of blue and violet agapanto.
So many, many flowers, a bounty which had marked his very stoatish soul and guided his path to floristry.
So many, many flowers, a bounty which had marked his very stoatish soul and guided his path to floristry.
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
carefree frogs singing in the valleys, and levadas, water channels like serpents twisting through the wild fuchsias and the starry myriads of blue and violet agapanto.
So many, many flowers, a bounty which had marked his very stoatish soul and guided his path to floristry.
So many, many flowers, a bounty which had marked his very stoatish soul and guided his path to floristry.
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– a time of green mountains wreathed in salt-grey clouds, ancient forests of pines and eucalyptus, dense ferned cauldrons scattered with dusty golden light, the hot, dry eastern wind known as the Leste, bright red and yellow tins of sugar cane honey cakes,
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
– a time of green mountains wreathed in salt-grey clouds, ancient forests of pines and eucalyptus, dense ferned cauldrons scattered with dusty golden light, the hot, dry eastern wind known as the Leste, bright red and yellow tins of sugar cane honey cakes,
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An Island of Flowers, an Island of Friends.
The Stoat who ran the flower shop in Dorchester was originally from Madeira, his stately old family having established themselves there during the Napoleonic Wars. His kit-hood on the island in the parish of Santo da Serra had been idyllic,
The Stoat who ran the flower shop in Dorchester was originally from Madeira, his stately old family having established themselves there during the Napoleonic Wars. His kit-hood on the island in the parish of Santo da Serra had been idyllic,
May 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
An Island of Flowers, an Island of Friends.
The Stoat who ran the flower shop in Dorchester was originally from Madeira, his stately old family having established themselves there during the Napoleonic Wars. His kit-hood on the island in the parish of Santo da Serra had been idyllic,
The Stoat who ran the flower shop in Dorchester was originally from Madeira, his stately old family having established themselves there during the Napoleonic Wars. His kit-hood on the island in the parish of Santo da Serra had been idyllic,
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If this is the kind of gentle wisdom that appeals to you, do please consider subscribing to @annelouiseavery.bsky.social on Patreon for more stories like this, longer, exclusive tales and fantastic recipes. #OldFox 🦊
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August 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If this is the kind of gentle wisdom that appeals to you, do please consider subscribing to @annelouiseavery.bsky.social on Patreon for more stories like this, longer, exclusive tales and fantastic recipes. #OldFox 🦊
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🌕 Over my patreon, I post much longer stories and recipes, including Ermine and Sea Otter's Moon-viewing Rum and Coconut Cake! Perfect for this last great moon of summer! And there are over a thousand other tales and essays and receipts in the archives!🌕 www.patreon.com/posts/ermine...
August 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
🌕 Over my patreon, I post much longer stories and recipes, including Ermine and Sea Otter's Moon-viewing Rum and Coconut Cake! Perfect for this last great moon of summer! And there are over a thousand other tales and essays and receipts in the archives!🌕 www.patreon.com/posts/ermine...
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Whimsy, engaging characters, country tales, imagination, historical sensitivity, deep humanity, finely honed writing—-and yes, wonderful recipes. Do join Anne’s Patreon. It is both thought-provoking and a source of great pleasure.
August 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Whimsy, engaging characters, country tales, imagination, historical sensitivity, deep humanity, finely honed writing—-and yes, wonderful recipes. Do join Anne’s Patreon. It is both thought-provoking and a source of great pleasure.
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This discussion of Sylvia Townsend Warner's 'The Corner That Held Them' is fabulous! (And it's great to hear @tanyakirk.bsky.social on the show again.) The earlier Backlisted episode on STW's 'Lolly Willows' was terrific too. May we please have a discussion on STW's 'Kingdoms of Elfin' next?
Nonstop nuns on the new episode of @backlisted.bsky.social, in which we discuss "The Corner that Held Them" by Sylvia Townsend Warner. With fellow postulants Tanya Kirk and Andy Miller, and Mother Superior Nicky Birch. @tanyakirk.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
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242. The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner — Backlisted
Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of this episode, almost ten years since Backlisted covered the same author's classic debut Lolly Willowes ...
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June 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This discussion of Sylvia Townsend Warner's 'The Corner That Held Them' is fabulous! (And it's great to hear @tanyakirk.bsky.social on the show again.) The earlier Backlisted episode on STW's 'Lolly Willows' was terrific too. May we please have a discussion on STW's 'Kingdoms of Elfin' next?
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breakfasts and walks and washing up and writing letters and reading in bed - mantlepieces and bedside chests and cluttered kitchen tables - those domestic sites, those moments which constitute the great golden ore of our existence, those moments which we long for so desperately in grief, in death.
July 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
breakfasts and walks and washing up and writing letters and reading in bed - mantlepieces and bedside chests and cluttered kitchen tables - those domestic sites, those moments which constitute the great golden ore of our existence, those moments which we long for so desperately in grief, in death.
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My father’s life was so romantic - a telegram from the
British Council requesting the immediate assumption of his duties in Alexandria. He sailed on the 29th August, 1939, under a great full moon.
British Council requesting the immediate assumption of his duties in Alexandria. He sailed on the 29th August, 1939, under a great full moon.
July 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My father’s life was so romantic - a telegram from the
British Council requesting the immediate assumption of his duties in Alexandria. He sailed on the 29th August, 1939, under a great full moon.
British Council requesting the immediate assumption of his duties in Alexandria. He sailed on the 29th August, 1939, under a great full moon.
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Lost days on the edge of war - my father, Ronnie (top left), and friends on a gilded afternoon in Alexandria, sometime in 1940
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Lost days on the edge of war - my father, Ronnie (top left), and friends on a gilded afternoon in Alexandria, sometime in 1940
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July 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Fireworks suck! Here are some tips from cat behaviorist @mikeldelgado.bsky.social for keeping your cats safe and happy this 4th of July. www.instagram.com/p/C87GFSBpgyk/
1. Make sure your cats are inside. Even if they normally go out, the 4th is not a good day for them to roam. (con't)
1. Make sure your cats are inside. Even if they normally go out, the 4th is not a good day for them to roam. (con't)
July 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Fireworks suck! Here are some tips from cat behaviorist @mikeldelgado.bsky.social for keeping your cats safe and happy this 4th of July. www.instagram.com/p/C87GFSBpgyk/
1. Make sure your cats are inside. Even if they normally go out, the 4th is not a good day for them to roam. (con't)
1. Make sure your cats are inside. Even if they normally go out, the 4th is not a good day for them to roam. (con't)
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April 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You don't need to be a millionaire or even a hundredaire to help our animals and support our mission. Modest monthly donations mean the world to us!!
You can join Patreon for as little as $1/month! patreon.com/Merrymac
Or set up monthly donations in any amount here: donorbox.org/mmfs-donate
You can join Patreon for as little as $1/month! patreon.com/Merrymac
Or set up monthly donations in any amount here: donorbox.org/mmfs-donate