Mary B
@beesincampanula.bsky.social
I should have been a pair of ragged claws…
Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. #amquerying
Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. #amquerying
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Mary B
@beesincampanula.bsky.social
· Nov 17
If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
Spike Milligan
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
Spike Milligan
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This work was painted at Gerald Gardiner’s home in Gloucestershire in the mid 1930s and is a good example of his depiction of a night-time scene, showing the light, the reflections and shadows cast by the oil lamp and fire as his wife, Evelyn contentedly reads a book.
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This work was painted at Gerald Gardiner’s home in Gloucestershire in the mid 1930s and is a good example of his depiction of a night-time scene, showing the light, the reflections and shadows cast by the oil lamp and fire as his wife, Evelyn contentedly reads a book.
Reposted by Mary B
Old oak. November 2025
#oaktree #trees #nature #landscape #Scape #devon #pentax #pentaxk1 #Pentax #photography
#oaktree #trees #nature #landscape #Scape #devon #pentax #pentaxk1 #Pentax #photography
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Old oak. November 2025
#oaktree #trees #nature #landscape #Scape #devon #pentax #pentaxk1 #Pentax #photography
#oaktree #trees #nature #landscape #Scape #devon #pentax #pentaxk1 #Pentax #photography
Reposted by Mary B
#ArtDD2025
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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'Brolly and the Chocolate Factory', Southwark by Benjamin Hope
benjaminhope.net
benjaminhope.net
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
'Brolly and the Chocolate Factory', Southwark by Benjamin Hope
benjaminhope.net
benjaminhope.net
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'Wandsworth by Moonlight' by John Atkinson Grimshaw
(Private collection)
(Private collection)
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
'Wandsworth by Moonlight' by John Atkinson Grimshaw
(Private collection)
(Private collection)
So sad to hear Tom Stoppard has died. Absolutely loved his work ❤️
#BookWormSat 📚💙
#BookWormSat 📚💙
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
So sad to hear Tom Stoppard has died. Absolutely loved his work ❤️
#BookWormSat 📚💙
#BookWormSat 📚💙
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One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
Reposted by Mary B
happy bday Venezuelan humanist/poet Andrés Bello, b.1781.
"...Where the bird amid the branches,
In the early dawning gray,
Sings its untaught, artless music,
Greeting thus the new-born day..."
"...Where the bird amid the branches,
In the early dawning gray,
Sings its untaught, artless music,
Greeting thus the new-born day..."
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
happy bday Venezuelan humanist/poet Andrés Bello, b.1781.
"...Where the bird amid the branches,
In the early dawning gray,
Sings its untaught, artless music,
Greeting thus the new-born day..."
"...Where the bird amid the branches,
In the early dawning gray,
Sings its untaught, artless music,
Greeting thus the new-born day..."
Reposted by Mary B
Couple of hours at Kidwelly Quay. Siberian Chiff, 10 Rb Mergs, c30 Snipe and a few distant Pintail. #birdigWales
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Couple of hours at Kidwelly Quay. Siberian Chiff, 10 Rb Mergs, c30 Snipe and a few distant Pintail. #birdigWales
Reposted by Mary B
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Reposted by Mary B
‘It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.’ ~ The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here, growing up for
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Eleazar Albin, 1720.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here, growing up for
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Eleazar Albin, 1720.
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
‘It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.’ ~ The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here, growing up for
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Eleazar Albin, 1720.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here, growing up for
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Eleazar Albin, 1720.
Reposted by Mary B
Long before the screams of the cosmonaut Pavel Mikoyan troubled the children of the county, Hookland already had its own space phantom. The 'Dan Dare ghost' has been haunting the now abandoned British space programme at RAF Nook since at least 1962. (Depiction based witness testimony).
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Long before the screams of the cosmonaut Pavel Mikoyan troubled the children of the county, Hookland already had its own space phantom. The 'Dan Dare ghost' has been haunting the now abandoned British space programme at RAF Nook since at least 1962. (Depiction based witness testimony).
Reposted by Mary B
#SteepleSunday
On his feast day, here's St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in City.
In C13 was St Andrew juxta Baynard Castle as Med fortress was opposite. Name changed 1361 when royal stores moved nearby from Tower.
1666 Gt Fire destroyed Church+Wardrobe; church rebuilt by Wren.
Gutted in WWII, restored.
On his feast day, here's St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in City.
In C13 was St Andrew juxta Baynard Castle as Med fortress was opposite. Name changed 1361 when royal stores moved nearby from Tower.
1666 Gt Fire destroyed Church+Wardrobe; church rebuilt by Wren.
Gutted in WWII, restored.
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#SteepleSunday
On his feast day, here's St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in City.
In C13 was St Andrew juxta Baynard Castle as Med fortress was opposite. Name changed 1361 when royal stores moved nearby from Tower.
1666 Gt Fire destroyed Church+Wardrobe; church rebuilt by Wren.
Gutted in WWII, restored.
On his feast day, here's St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in City.
In C13 was St Andrew juxta Baynard Castle as Med fortress was opposite. Name changed 1361 when royal stores moved nearby from Tower.
1666 Gt Fire destroyed Church+Wardrobe; church rebuilt by Wren.
Gutted in WWII, restored.
Reposted by Mary B
" ..If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill ....
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!"
✍️ Rudyard Kipling, "If" #BookWormSat
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill ....
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!"
✍️ Rudyard Kipling, "If" #BookWormSat
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
" ..If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill ....
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!"
✍️ Rudyard Kipling, "If" #BookWormSat
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill ....
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!"
✍️ Rudyard Kipling, "If" #BookWormSat
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“How else to explain the curious feeling that he goes around feeling like he misses somebody he’s never even met?”
📚 D.F.Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ G.F. Watts, Self Portrait age 17
#BookWormSat #ComingOfAge
📚 D.F.Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ G.F. Watts, Self Portrait age 17
#BookWormSat #ComingOfAge
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“How else to explain the curious feeling that he goes around feeling like he misses somebody he’s never even met?”
📚 D.F.Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ G.F. Watts, Self Portrait age 17
#BookWormSat #ComingOfAge
📚 D.F.Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ G.F. Watts, Self Portrait age 17
#BookWormSat #ComingOfAge
Reposted by Mary B
Book Cover of the Day:
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
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"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."
-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM
"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."
-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
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" .. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again".
✍️ C.S. Lewis, "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"
#BookWormSat
✍️ C.S. Lewis, "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"
#BookWormSat
a blue sign that says no one is too old for fairytales
Alt: a blue sign that says no one is too old for fairytales
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
" .. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again".
✍️ C.S. Lewis, "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"
#BookWormSat
✍️ C.S. Lewis, "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"
#BookWormSat
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“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
✍️ Anne Frank, Her Diary #BookWormSat
✍️ Anne Frank, Her Diary #BookWormSat
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
✍️ Anne Frank, Her Diary #BookWormSat
✍️ Anne Frank, Her Diary #BookWormSat
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Gravegoods from the famous princely tombs from Praeneste (modern Palestrina). Now in Villa Poniatowski in Villa Giulia in Rome. #FindsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Gravegoods from the famous princely tombs from Praeneste (modern Palestrina). Now in Villa Poniatowski in Villa Giulia in Rome. #FindsFriday
Reposted by Mary B
Pompeii: How robots and AI are restoring the site’s shattered Roman frescoes | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
How robots are breathing new life into Pompeii’s shattered treasures
Many of the artefacts were damaged by bombing in the Second World War
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Pompeii: How robots and AI are restoring the site’s shattered Roman frescoes | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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Goodnight from The Dominion cinema in Ashcourt, where half the audience has left after the first 10 minutes of ‘The Dead Watch’. Goodnight from the Welcome Rest roadside restaurant at Northway Corner, where the lights have suddenly turned on despite it being abandoned since 1973.
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Goodnight from The Dominion cinema in Ashcourt, where half the audience has left after the first 10 minutes of ‘The Dead Watch’. Goodnight from the Welcome Rest roadside restaurant at Northway Corner, where the lights have suddenly turned on despite it being abandoned since 1973.
Reposted by Mary B
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort…
Jo March in Little Women
Louisa May Alcott 1868
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Young girl reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
Jo March in Little Women
Louisa May Alcott 1868
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Young girl reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort…
Jo March in Little Women
Louisa May Alcott 1868
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Young girl reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
Jo March in Little Women
Louisa May Alcott 1868
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Young girl reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
We said to him: here is your happiness, here is what you spent your whole youth looking for, here is the girl you saw in all your dreams!
How could anyone… avoid a reaction of indecision, then fear, …how could he resist the temptation to escape?
Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes
#BookWormSat
How could anyone… avoid a reaction of indecision, then fear, …how could he resist the temptation to escape?
Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes
#BookWormSat
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
We said to him: here is your happiness, here is what you spent your whole youth looking for, here is the girl you saw in all your dreams!
How could anyone… avoid a reaction of indecision, then fear, …how could he resist the temptation to escape?
Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes
#BookWormSat
How could anyone… avoid a reaction of indecision, then fear, …how could he resist the temptation to escape?
Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes
#BookWormSat