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Writes stuff, edits things, looks at rocks https://jackiefraser.co.uk/ #DailyMegalith #MDANT #RNA

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · Nov 14

I write books. They might not be your sort of thing but maybe you know someone who’d like them. They’re about middle-aged people falling in love.

I also work on other people’s books. The one on the right I am particularly proud of.

I post about writing, editing, and rocks, amongst other stuff.

A stack of paperbacks. Various editions of The Bookshop of Second Chances and The Beginning of Everything

The cover of The Old Stones, a gazetteer of megalithic sites in Britain and Ireland

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 1d

I should probably advertise more often. You can buy prints from me, commission pictures, make 3d models, animation, come up with excellent ideas, all sorts. tell your mates. cheers.

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 1d

God, it would change my life.

Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 1d

It's just very bizarre, and I really feel for you about the whole thing, especially when you have had what can only be described as A Most Shocking and Distressing Year. I hope soon all the substack-lovers will have jumped ship so you can stop thinking about it.

Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 1d

It's very very weird, Tom, not in a good way. Sometimes people behaving strangely can make it seem like you did something to cause it. I want to firmly refute this. Do you have to read the messages? I suggest you avoid if possible. That these people can cost you money really sucks, too.

Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 2d

'You Don't Know Jack'

Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 2d

The thought of his diet makes me genuinely frightened.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 3d

KITCHENWARE COMPANY BOSS: So, did you come up with a name for that revolving food tray, Susan?

SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 2d

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 2d

We were in Kerry when the campaign began and saw lots of posters for him when we were driving home so this is interesting!

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that’s beautiful.

Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 2d

There were people on Next Door last week talking about our general waste collection going fortnightly ‘they put up the council tax! where does the money go??!!’ I was pleased to see other people saying ‘it goes on social care mate’.

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

I think there must be houses further round, as I don’t think the PO van would use the forestry roads. Or maybe it would. We were quite startled anyway!

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 3d

Pictures taken this week near Burrator reservoir, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #Autumn

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

My mother's advice to me about Bambi, some forty years ago, (presumably to make up for the whole Watership Down debacle) 'You don't need to see Bambi, his mum dies.' #spoilers

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

#DailyMegalith #StandingstoneSunday

The ogham stone at Cool East #ValentiaIsland #CountyKerry #RepublicofIreland (2025)

You can see Cool East wedge tomb from the ogham stone - although not from this angle. There's a modern standing stone in this field, too.

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The sky is grey, the grass is green, Ollie is wearing his waterproof jacket. The stone is behind him, leaning backwards, about ten feet tall and covered in lichen. The ogham script is on the edge facing the camera but it's tricky to see.

"Macalister's revised reading (1945, 226-7) of this is:
. . . ]ERRLONNA MAQI R[U]T[E]N[I]

The very weathered and uneven surface of the stone detracts from the general clarity of the inscription. The first stroke of the L is unclear, as is the final stroke of the second N. The next character appears to be M rather than A. Only two notches of the first I are discernible, and the first stroke of the third R is incomplete. The first stroke of the T and the final E and I are doubtful.

The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 912."

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

Rachel hates being called inspirational but she is a *bit* inspirational sometimes. Maybe go outside and look at some nature if you can, and follow her here, or on Insta or FB, so you can look at her brilliant pictures of Dartmoor.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 3d

Read or don’t, up to you. 🙂❤️

Autumn is the season I fell ill twelve years ago. Legs buckling as a seventy year old outpaced me on a photography lesson I was supposed to be giving. I'd had these phases before, survived on a part time income for years. This was different. A huge invisible anchor bound my body to beds, even sitting up was difficult. My mobility collapsed in four weeks. And my micro business. I was hopeful to see a specialist who sadly was clueless, results normal.
I worked so hard on my own to build my business and that year I was invited to speak at the Bristol camera club, my heart broke as I had to decline, cancel, refund everything, everyone.
A few clients even wanted more than their refunds even though I told them I was now an electric wheelchair user. My heart shattered, my legs mired in mud unable to move.
Twelve years later here I am, still very unwell, I haven't been to a city for since 2013, too unwell to sit in a wheelchair to travel that far. The closest I got was the MRI At Derriford when lost my hearing in my left ear last year.
What do I miss most ? Bookshops, art galleries, exhibitions, I can't get to my local library but my partner collects books for me, which I love .
I miss it all, an active life, so much.
I can still hold a camera, visit places nearby, I love my NHS wheelchair, my social housing flat, my precious garden.
Autumn seeps in, and another year passes. I'm different from that 38 year old who fell to the ground all those years ago, stronger, older, more cynical, more compassionate, more cheerful.
I wear brighter colours, and bigger boots. And I swear even more spectacularly than I did before.

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 3d

I went #Chough hunting with a new friend, to the Deer Park, on the #Pembrokeshire coastal path today. We got lucky with many sightings of my all time favourite bird. So here’s a #painting of mine to mark the occasion. What a fantastic day!!!

Two Chough perched on lichen covered rocks on the coastal path

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

Such a great place. And there's a secret road, we yomped through the forestry for ages and then a post office van drove past on a road we couldn't see on the map.

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no, it's fine really, my mother is a very reasonable person (although much better at cleaning than me, LOL) and they've stayed fairly often over the last 25 years. I do need the occasional pressure of visitors to do dusting and stuff. Then I enjoy the house being briefly clean and tidy.

Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

Ormaig!

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry. I know things were complicated but it's still a Moment in Life, isn't it. x

Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

My parents are coming tomorrow to stay for a week. They live inconveniently far away and haven't been here since 2021. That's not the last time I cleaned the house but it does feel like it. Operation 'don't let them see how we live' has been ongoing for several days and I am very weary.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 3d

October 5: Apologies for the bad news, but today is one of the 3 unluckiest days of the year in the Roman calendar. Definitely let people know that the underworld opens up to the living today (mundus patet) and so you just can’t leave your house, especially to sail (also on August 24 & November 8).

The tomb was designated the “Tomb of Cerberus” after the incredible mural of Hercules fighting the three-headed dog that guarded the underworld.

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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 3d

Oh Des.

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 6d

If you're interested in ghosts and monsters and folklore, @pauljholden.com and I did a book which you should probably buy
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Fascinating Folklore

- A compendium of comics and essays - Crafted by the masterful minds of two comic world luminaries, John Reppion and PJ Holden, Fascinating...

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