Petrified Unrest
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To be the midpoint of triple Nature, to move all things,
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
To be the midpoint of triple Nature, to move all things,
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
Spotted this first edition today
September 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Spotted this first edition today
Nice little pebble feature at work
August 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Nice little pebble feature at work
They needed a starting motor for the choir practice
August 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
They needed a starting motor for the choir practice
The juxtaposition of book and balls was done in January 2018... Only today have I realised what might have inspired this - Emblem 141 (Eternitas) from Henry Peacham's Minerva Britanna (1612), featuring a very Melusinian-looking form holding two orbs, and she has 17 stars on her!
August 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The juxtaposition of book and balls was done in January 2018... Only today have I realised what might have inspired this - Emblem 141 (Eternitas) from Henry Peacham's Minerva Britanna (1612), featuring a very Melusinian-looking form holding two orbs, and she has 17 stars on her!
"I wonder if, by any chance, they are related?"
August 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"I wonder if, by any chance, they are related?"
Troll-faced flint on Bronze Age barrow
August 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Troll-faced flint on Bronze Age barrow
Didn't expect to find this in the Fiction section of a National Trust bookshop 🧐
August 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Didn't expect to find this in the Fiction section of a National Trust bookshop 🧐
Never seen clouds cast shadows on a blue sky before
July 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Never seen clouds cast shadows on a blue sky before
Managed to get Old Winchester Hill and Beacon Hill in the same shot. Taken from Wheely Down, while trying to view a ploughed out barrow (out of shot). The green mass of Beacon Hill peers out from the trees on the right. Distant OWH is to the left of the central stand of trees #HillfortsWednesday
July 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Managed to get Old Winchester Hill and Beacon Hill in the same shot. Taken from Wheely Down, while trying to view a ploughed out barrow (out of shot). The green mass of Beacon Hill peers out from the trees on the right. Distant OWH is to the left of the central stand of trees #HillfortsWednesday
Lived here for 30 years but only noticed this stone on the flower bed yesterday. Signs of repeated working? A lithic core?
#FlintKnapping #WorkedFlint #lithics #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic #Neolithic #Archaeology
#FlintKnapping #WorkedFlint #lithics #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic #Neolithic #Archaeology
July 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Lived here for 30 years but only noticed this stone on the flower bed yesterday. Signs of repeated working? A lithic core?
#FlintKnapping #WorkedFlint #lithics #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic #Neolithic #Archaeology
#FlintKnapping #WorkedFlint #lithics #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic #Neolithic #Archaeology
I see echoes of Ithell Colquhoun's painting, 'Tree Anatomy' (1942). As Norah Bowman and Astrida Neimanis observe, its arborescent holiness 'promises a superabundant otherworld', defying the catastrophic extractive logic of climate colonialism for which the hole is merely 'the absence of existence'.
July 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I see echoes of Ithell Colquhoun's painting, 'Tree Anatomy' (1942). As Norah Bowman and Astrida Neimanis observe, its arborescent holiness 'promises a superabundant otherworld', defying the catastrophic extractive logic of climate colonialism for which the hole is merely 'the absence of existence'.
Two flint spheres deposited at a Roman shrine to a water deity, and two flint spheres juxtaposed with a book on André Breton's Arcane 17, his invocation of water nymph, Melusine. Two ‘positional acts’, vastly separated in time, yet mutually implicated thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/m...
July 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Two flint spheres deposited at a Roman shrine to a water deity, and two flint spheres juxtaposed with a book on André Breton's Arcane 17, his invocation of water nymph, Melusine. Two ‘positional acts’, vastly separated in time, yet mutually implicated thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/m...
Gorgeous, pouting sarsen stone at Bramdean, Hampshire. Part of a group from which a fragment was found at Stonehenge, 51 km away. Mwah! #StandingStoneSunday
July 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Gorgeous, pouting sarsen stone at Bramdean, Hampshire. Part of a group from which a fragment was found at Stonehenge, 51 km away. Mwah! #StandingStoneSunday
A descending dove seen in Hinton Ampner yesterday. Today I found a pigeon had descended our chimney. It must have been in the room a long while. A 50-mile round trip to the animal rescue, but sadly, too far gone to be saved. Returning home, 'The Lark Ascending' plays on the radio. Strange symmetries
July 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A descending dove seen in Hinton Ampner yesterday. Today I found a pigeon had descended our chimney. It must have been in the room a long while. A 50-mile round trip to the animal rescue, but sadly, too far gone to be saved. Returning home, 'The Lark Ascending' plays on the radio. Strange symmetries
"Honey swarns where mellisponds. Will bee all buzzy one another minnies for the mere effect that you are so fuld of pollen yourself" - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Bee emerging from Trumpet Vine flower, Hinton Ampner
Bee emerging from Trumpet Vine flower, Hinton Ampner
July 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"Honey swarns where mellisponds. Will bee all buzzy one another minnies for the mere effect that you are so fuld of pollen yourself" - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Bee emerging from Trumpet Vine flower, Hinton Ampner
Bee emerging from Trumpet Vine flower, Hinton Ampner
Sarsen stone, Bramdean, Hampshire
"Sarsen of undetermined use was brought to Stonehenge from several different areas, two of which include Bramdean, Hampshire (51 km from the monument) and Stoney Wish, East Sussex (123 km from the monument)."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Sarsen of undetermined use was brought to Stonehenge from several different areas, two of which include Bramdean, Hampshire (51 km from the monument) and Stoney Wish, East Sussex (123 km from the monument)."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Sarsen stone, Bramdean, Hampshire
"Sarsen of undetermined use was brought to Stonehenge from several different areas, two of which include Bramdean, Hampshire (51 km from the monument) and Stoney Wish, East Sussex (123 km from the monument)."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Sarsen of undetermined use was brought to Stonehenge from several different areas, two of which include Bramdean, Hampshire (51 km from the monument) and Stoney Wish, East Sussex (123 km from the monument)."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
White cattle at St Cross, in sight of St Catherine's Hill, Winchester
June 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
White cattle at St Cross, in sight of St Catherine's Hill, Winchester
Found this pebble on a field edge. Minutes after this playful comparison with UFO forms in a book on the 1945 Trinity case, I found out (from Tom Graves' 'Needles of Stone') that a 'ley line' I'd plotted through a tumulus in that field c.1977 aligned with the site of a famous Hampshire UFO encounter
May 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Found this pebble on a field edge. Minutes after this playful comparison with UFO forms in a book on the 1945 Trinity case, I found out (from Tom Graves' 'Needles of Stone') that a 'ley line' I'd plotted through a tumulus in that field c.1977 aligned with the site of a famous Hampshire UFO encounter
A rhythmic crunch, a sing-song voice, and a swift darting behind the tower at St Cross
May 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A rhythmic crunch, a sing-song voice, and a swift darting behind the tower at St Cross
Swifts approaching
May 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Swifts approaching