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Joy Parry

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"Some stranger, somewhere, still remembers you because you were kind to them when no one else was." Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 9h

#WyrdWednesday
King Arthur's quest was in search of the magical Cauldron of Dyrnwch - folklore said that the cauldron would only boil to provide food for the brave, it would never boil for those who were cowardly.

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · Jun 15

#BookWormSat
"Tri lloneit prytwen yd aetham ni idi
Nam seith ny dyrreith ogaer sidi."
[Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went into it.
Except seven none rose up from the Fortress of the Mound"]

Arthur leads 3 boatloads of men into the Underworld, from which only 7 men returned.
from Preiddeu Annwn

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 18h

#LegendaryWednesday
How to give your young child nightmares ... this doll was owned by Marjorie Cousins, the daughter of family friends during the 1910s.

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 18h

Beautiful word ... perfectly describes this wonderful work of art by one of our garden arachnids this week 🕷️

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 1d

#FairyTaleTuesday
Ravens were sacred to siblings Bran and Branwen; a tame raven took messages between them when Branwen was imprisoned by her husband in Ireland. After his death and decapitation, Bran's head was taken and buried at the site of the Tower of London which still has resident ravens.

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 1d

#FairyTaleTuesday
The giant gourd of Bantu folklore ... 🎃

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · Feb 17

#MythologyMonday
Bantu folklore tells how a giant gourd grew so big it devoured a whole village in Usambara - apart from one pregnant woman. When grown, her son split open the gourd, releasing all the villagers, becoming a hero & great leader.
🎨Amanacer-Fiend0 [DeviantArt]

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 2d

#MythologyMonday #BookShopDay
... the same illustrator contributed to Maud Ovazza's collection of Arthurian tales in Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde 💜

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 2d

#MythologyMonday #BookShopDay
La Légende de Merlin is a lovely French version of the story of shapeshifter, bard and mentor to King Arthur by Claudine
Glot with beautiful illustrations by Jean-Noël Rochut ...

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 2d

#MythologyMonday #BookShopDay #BookSky
Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady is a beautiful retelling of the folk story by Selina Hastings. The illustrations - by Juan Wijngaard - are wonderful ♥️

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#ShakespeareSunday

"Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,
With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens,
Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
To make a hazard of new fortunes here."

King John
🎨Richard Hook [Fine Art America]

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#ShakespeareSunday

"For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews,
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Make tigers tame and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
🎨Marcello Provenzale [Galleria Borghese Rome]

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#FolkloreSunday
In many cultures the full moon was believed to illuminate [spiritually] the pathway to the otherworld and thus make the connection to their ancestors much closer. Indigenous Americans saw Kokopelli in the full [and waning] moon, when his influence was greater ...
🎨K Hart

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

... and when they're bored ...
🎨Maurice Sand

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#ShakespeareSunday

"I boarded the King’s ship; now on the beak,
Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
I flamed amazement. Sometimes I’d divide
And burn in many places. On the topmast,
The yards, and bowsprit would I flame distinctly,
Then meet and join ..."

The Tempest
🎨Mark Quartley RSC2017

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#ShakespeareSunday

"Belike you mean to make a puppet of me ..."

The Taming of the Shrew
📷Maulik Pancholy & Peter Gadiot [Washington DC Shakespeare Theater Co]

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#ShakespeareSunday

"... oft the teeming Earth
Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed
By the imprisoning of unruly wind
Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving,
Shakes the old beldam Earth and topples down
Steeples and moss-grown towers."

Henry IV [1]
🎨French MS & Sebastian Munster MS

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#ShakespeareSunday

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · Jun 29

#ShakespeareSunday

"The night has been unruly: where we lay
Our chimneys were blown down ..."

MacBeth
🎨Big Wind of 1839 [©Irish Times]

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 4d

4th October 1936: the day that the people of London's East End stood up to fascism - in what became known as the Battle of Cable Street ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzKv...

Ghosts of Cable Street

YouTube video by anarchy41

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 4d

#BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay

"Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around & yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it just might work.”

Pratchett/Gaiman - Good Omens

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 4d

#BookWormSat

"'You saying killing a rat would be murder?' said Raufman.
'Yes. Of course.'
'But it's just -'
'Talk to the paw, mister, 'cos the whiskers don't want to know!'"

Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 4d

#BookWormSat

"On every bough I heard birds sing
Angelic voices in their harmony;
Some their fledglings forth did bring;
And little rabbits to play went by.
And all about I did espy
The roe, the buck, the hart, the hind,
Squirrels, and small beasts of noble kind."

Chaucer - Parliament of Fowls

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · Nov 11

#MythologyMonday #BookChatWeekly

"But first were fowl chosen for to sing,
As was ever their custom year on year
To sing out a roundel at their parting
To do Nature honour and bring cheer."

Geoffrey Chaucer - Parliament of Fowls [translation]
🎨Woody Choristers

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 4d

#BookWormSat #WorldAnimalDay

"Get the boat out, and we'll paddle up there at once. It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!"

Kenneth Grahame
🎨Ernest Shepard

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 5d

Sad to hear about the death of actress Patricia Routledge - despite being best known for Keeping Up Appearances, she was such a talented actress, brilliant in Carousel, The Pirates of Penzance, Talking Heads etc. A truly talented and lovely lady.
#RIP #PatriciaRoutledge

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 5d

"... it arose and struck [him] that, in her own special category, she was quite beautiful; this was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at."

Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!
#BookChatWeekly #WorldSmileDay

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 6d

#InternationalDayOfNonViolence

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone care to guess the subject of this portrait? 😂

The British Ironworks Centre [Creators of the magnificent Knife Angel]
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The British Ironwork Centre

Portrait Competition Please send us your favorite portrait - if we post it, we’ll send you a cream tea voucher. Loved this one, Trump - it’s called MOUTH OF MADNESS Artist Tyler Scully Location LA

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