Rosalind Ahmed
@21rosa.bsky.social
Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
"... hear my plaint of dead men's hate intolerable. Me, sternly slain by them that should have loved...Hewn down in blood by matricidal hands. Mark ye these wounds from which the heart's blood ran". Clytemnestra's spectre calls on the Furies to exact revenge on her killer/her son #PhantomsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"... hear my plaint of dead men's hate intolerable. Me, sternly slain by them that should have loved...Hewn down in blood by matricidal hands. Mark ye these wounds from which the heart's blood ran". Clytemnestra's spectre calls on the Furies to exact revenge on her killer/her son #PhantomsFriday
An Cailleach (from 'caillech'-'veiled one') is the goddess of winter in Gaelic mythology; she is described as an elderly woman: wild, fearsome, complex & ambiguous. Inhabiting the rocky, bony, lonely places she protects the gentle deer & shapeshifts into the cailleach-oidhche (owl) #FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
An Cailleach (from 'caillech'-'veiled one') is the goddess of winter in Gaelic mythology; she is described as an elderly woman: wild, fearsome, complex & ambiguous. Inhabiting the rocky, bony, lonely places she protects the gentle deer & shapeshifts into the cailleach-oidhche (owl) #FolkyFriday
#NotKnownEnough Bill Jones singer, songwriter and musician whose fans were content to wait 15 years for her newest album, knowing how free spirited it would be
billjonesfolkmusician.bandcamp.com/album/wonder...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
billjonesfolkmusician.bandcamp.com/album/wonder...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#NotKnownEnough Bill Jones singer, songwriter and musician whose fans were content to wait 15 years for her newest album, knowing how free spirited it would be
billjonesfolkmusician.bandcamp.com/album/wonder...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
billjonesfolkmusician.bandcamp.com/album/wonder...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
A different take on #AdoorableThursday @erikforrestjackson.com 🤣
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A different take on #AdoorableThursday @erikforrestjackson.com 🤣
Repost for #BookologyThursday
Young bookworm at the window of John Smith & Son bookshop, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, 1962, photo by Oscar Marzaroli.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Repost for #BookologyThursday
#NovemberAlchemy
27th: Unsteady Equinox - 'Get the Balance Right'
youtu.be/zfiISFiozg8?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
27th: Unsteady Equinox - 'Get the Balance Right'
youtu.be/zfiISFiozg8?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
#NovemberAlchemy
27th: Unsteady Equinox - 'Get the Balance Right'
youtu.be/zfiISFiozg8?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
27th: Unsteady Equinox - 'Get the Balance Right'
youtu.be/zfiISFiozg8?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
"Cancer is very much like the Spanish Inquisition: nobody expects it. And its chief weapons are surprise, fear and ruthless efficiency."
Read as David Barnett opens up about his cancer diagnosis:
https://bit.ly/4rnmDPG
Read as David Barnett opens up about his cancer diagnosis:
https://bit.ly/4rnmDPG
‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news’ | The Observer
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Cancer is very much like the Spanish Inquisition: nobody expects it. And its chief weapons are surprise, fear and ruthless efficiency."
Read as David Barnett opens up about his cancer diagnosis:
https://bit.ly/4rnmDPG
Read as David Barnett opens up about his cancer diagnosis:
https://bit.ly/4rnmDPG
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
there will be the winter moon for us to love the longest,
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
& lines of old songs we can’t remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden
& bless us with their long-travelled light #BookologyThursday
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
& lines of old songs we can’t remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden
& bless us with their long-travelled light #BookologyThursday
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
there will be the winter moon for us to love the longest,
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
& lines of old songs we can’t remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden
& bless us with their long-travelled light #BookologyThursday
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
& lines of old songs we can’t remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden
& bless us with their long-travelled light #BookologyThursday
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.
Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.
Tag your post: #whistpr
Word for November 27, 2025: #MURMURATION
#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.
Tag your post: #whistpr
Word for November 27, 2025: #MURMURATION
#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.
Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.
Tag your post: #whistpr
Word for November 27, 2025: #MURMURATION
#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.
Tag your post: #whistpr
Word for November 27, 2025: #MURMURATION
#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
"Their shrill little voices uprose on the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed in fields held by frost, or when snow-bound in chimney corners, and handed down to be sung... at Yule-time."
- Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows"
🎨Ernest Shepard
#BookologyThursday
- Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows"
🎨Ernest Shepard
#BookologyThursday
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
"Their shrill little voices uprose on the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed in fields held by frost, or when snow-bound in chimney corners, and handed down to be sung... at Yule-time."
- Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows"
🎨Ernest Shepard
#BookologyThursday
- Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows"
🎨Ernest Shepard
#BookologyThursday
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
The Commons isn’t usually the place for sharp comedy, but today’s Budget delivered a moment that made even the frontbench blink.
Let’s just say Russia came up… and Farage was the punchline ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Let’s just say Russia came up… and Farage was the punchline ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Reeves aims a searing ‘Russian assets’ gibe at Farage
Rachel Reeves used her Budget speech to jab at Nigel Farage, invoking Russia amid renewed security concerns
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The Commons isn’t usually the place for sharp comedy, but today’s Budget delivered a moment that made even the frontbench blink.
Let’s just say Russia came up… and Farage was the punchline ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Let’s just say Russia came up… and Farage was the punchline ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
1/3 A Dutch folktale from just across the border with Belgium tells of a young girl haunted by her father's ghost. His pale, tormented face and pitiful cries reveal that he is trapped in purgatory.
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
1/3 A Dutch folktale from just across the border with Belgium tells of a young girl haunted by her father's ghost. His pale, tormented face and pitiful cries reveal that he is trapped in purgatory.
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
For decades, until 2010, someone appeared at Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore before dawn on Jan. 19, his birthday.
The mysterious visitor (aka The Poe Toaster), who was never identified, would leave behind three roses & a half-filled bottle of cognac as a tribute to the writer
#WyrdWednesday
The mysterious visitor (aka The Poe Toaster), who was never identified, would leave behind three roses & a half-filled bottle of cognac as a tribute to the writer
#WyrdWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For decades, until 2010, someone appeared at Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore before dawn on Jan. 19, his birthday.
The mysterious visitor (aka The Poe Toaster), who was never identified, would leave behind three roses & a half-filled bottle of cognac as a tribute to the writer
#WyrdWednesday
The mysterious visitor (aka The Poe Toaster), who was never identified, would leave behind three roses & a half-filled bottle of cognac as a tribute to the writer
#WyrdWednesday
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
Efraïm Rodríguez, Horseman (Sequoia and beech wood, iron and ladder, 2003)
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Efraïm Rodríguez, Horseman (Sequoia and beech wood, iron and ladder, 2003)
A repost of some beautiful, birdy art for today's #LegendaryWednesday theme
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A repost of some beautiful, birdy art for today's #LegendaryWednesday theme
#BilliesMusicMonth today's theme: to encourage someone "I'll Stand By You" youtu.be/ABGPMw_ir08?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#BilliesMusicMonth today's theme: to encourage someone "I'll Stand By You" youtu.be/ABGPMw_ir08?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
Club-mosses are so cool. Descendants of the most ancient vascular plants, these tiny forest dwellers are the legacy of giant plants of the Devonian period. They reproduce through spores. I think these two are Prickly Tree Clubmoss and Interrupted Clubmoss 🌿
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#NovemberAlchemy 26th: Moss Reclamation: "I can feel it coming back again" youtu.be/qgPSoLylxs0?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#NovemberAlchemy 26th: Moss Reclamation: "I can feel it coming back again" youtu.be/qgPSoLylxs0?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
#NotKnownEnough 'Never Ever Ever' - for everyone who has had to learn how to create and maintain boundaries
youtu.be/5mkYk2Q0qSM?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
youtu.be/5mkYk2Q0qSM?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
#NotKnownEnough 'Never Ever Ever' - for everyone who has had to learn how to create and maintain boundaries
youtu.be/5mkYk2Q0qSM?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
youtu.be/5mkYk2Q0qSM?...
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky
How can fowl be fish & eaten on Fridays & during Lent? When it's a barnacle goose 🪿 As winter visitors to the UK they were never seen nesting or with chicks. It was believed that they grew under sea, hatching from b&w striped goose barnacles, crustaceans attached to rocks & ships #LegendaryWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How can fowl be fish & eaten on Fridays & during Lent? When it's a barnacle goose 🪿 As winter visitors to the UK they were never seen nesting or with chicks. It was believed that they grew under sea, hatching from b&w striped goose barnacles, crustaceans attached to rocks & ships #LegendaryWednesday
An ancient border ballad might be known as 'Tam Lin' but its true heroine is Janet. He's marked as a fairy tithe to hell. As the fairy host processes Janet pulls Tam from his steed & holds him fast, even as he's changed into feral beasts & fire. Her selfless act secures his freedom
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
An ancient border ballad might be known as 'Tam Lin' but its true heroine is Janet. He's marked as a fairy tithe to hell. As the fairy host processes Janet pulls Tam from his steed & holds him fast, even as he's changed into feral beasts & fire. Her selfless act secures his freedom
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
Gen Z Voters - "the most progressive generation ever"
And yes - "they're pretty great" ❤️
And yes - "they're pretty great" ❤️
“Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.”
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Gen Z Voters - "the most progressive generation ever"
And yes - "they're pretty great" ❤️
And yes - "they're pretty great" ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM