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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻

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Oxford University Hospitals @ouhospitals.bsky.social · 41m

This week we have been marking Baby Loss Awareness Week, a time for bereaved parents, families, and friends to commemorate babies' lives, and to raise awareness about pregnancy and baby loss.

At 7pm tonight (15 October), people across the world will join a global wave of light by lighting a candle.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 33m

The witch knows water as spirit carrier, knows it as resonator between our bodies and enfolding otherworlds. Whether gifted as puddle in lane or hollow of felled tree, scrying mirrors are everywhere. Her fluid auguries suffer no drought. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 10h

All the good thoughts coming your way x

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My walk this morning closed out with Emily the eighteen month old Jack Russell rushing up to me and giving me all the love whilst her owner said “gosh, she really loves you, and she’s not normally a people person” which is the best kind of compliment.

👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 1d

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 2d

Post you from a different era

80’s “mittens-on-a-string” me at London Zoo was cute!

A small blonde child in a red winter coat, bobble hat, white tights, black patent shoes, and woolly mittens on strings dangling from the arms of the coat, rests one hand on a life sized statue of Guy the Gorilla (which the child is dwarfed by) and smiles widely at the camera.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning my lovelies! Last week flew by in a whirl of walks in the Welsh borders. Walks that, happily, contained a significant number of #fungi which I find infinitely qualified to become #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A clump of what I think are sulphur tuft mushrooms - a small beige/yellow umbrella shaped fungus growing at the base of a tree, surrounded by sparse blades of grass. In the background is a fallen branch and a green field

What I believe are Spectacular Rustgills; plate shaped muted orange mushrooms growing out of the dark brown-gray trunk of a tree.

Hare’s foot inkcap - pale white flat topped fungi that look as delicate as lace and deliquesce into a black inky substance a few hours after they appear.

A yellow fieldcap mushroom, looking very much like a tiny pale yellow umbrella, growing amongst the grass of a field.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 4d

I love Phil’s books, especially the Merrily Watkins series, and was so sad when he died last year. His final Merrily book is coming out next month.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 4d

I …. a to be read pile with only 8 books in it is, as far as I’m concerned, a very well managed pile indeed. I don’t count mine. I only worry when the physical one gets dangerous!

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 4d

Arrived home to find my copy of Old Songs, Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads by Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns waiting for me. So that’s my weekend reading sorted!
Also tagging @alysdragon.bsky.social in case you didn’t know about it, since I think this is very much your wheelhouse.

Front cover of the book “Old Songs, Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads” by Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns. The illustration is of a woman in a white dress with petticoats dancing in a graveyard.

Contents page of Old Songs. The text reads:

Contents
Foreword ix
Chapter One
Tam Lin; or, Janet, Who Won
Chapter Two
Willie's Lady; or, Evil Knots and Golden Horseshoes
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Chapter Three
Alison Gross; or, Worm and his Sister
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Chapter Four
Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight; or, The Pools of the Dead
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Chapter Five
The Twa Sisters; or, The Murderer Revealed
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Second contents page for Old Songs. The text reads:

Chapter Six
The Maid and the Palmer; or, The Sinful Woman
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Chapter Seven
The Demon Lover; or, The Ship with Taffeta Sails
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Chapter Eight
The Trees So High; or, Marriage to One Too Young
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Chapter Nine
The Brown Girl; or, Fantasy's Revenge
169
Chapter Ten
Thomas the Rhymer; or, The Fairy Queen's Revolt
189
Epilogue
215
The Ballads
219
Acknowledgements 261
Further Resources 263
Index 269

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 5d

How is saying “this person is a convicted stalker” gossip ffs? That’s just sharing a fact. Those writers have the self preservation instincts of a concussed lemming.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 6d

It’s for spooky season!

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sorry Soph, you don’t deserve that sort of treatment. Sending hugs.

👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks. I adore them and Wales is a treasure trove of close encounters.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 6d

Belated #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy because I spent a long weekend in Wales for my bestie’s 40th birthday and it completely slipped my mind. Have views galore and a - fairly impressive for a phone camera - shot of one of many Red Kites I’ve seen about the place #birds 🪶

Trig point on Twyn y Gaer in Bannau Brycheiniog in wildly changeable weather. The trig point is a white flat topped pyramid with a Welsh Dragon painted on each side, surrounded by a muddy puddle. The hills beyond are a patchwork quilt of fields and the sky is a whorl of clouds and hints of blue.

Llangors Lake at dawn with the crannog just left of centre and the start of Bannau Brycheiniog in the background. The sky is steaks of grey white cloud and china blue, reflecting in the lake surface which is also tinted gold by the rising sun on the ripples made by the ducks.

The top of the viewing hut for the crannog behind a swathe of bulrushes and other reeds, with Bannau Brycheiniog in the background, Cefn Cyff glowing in the dawn light. The sky looks like watercolour paint swirling in water, shades of grey and blue and purple and gold dripping through each other.

A red kite in flight against a blue sky hazy with faint grey cloud. The kite has their wings fully lifted so their red body, white head and underwing markings - red to black with a white patch on the top half - are clearly visible.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 6d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you so much, it’s so very kind.

👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 7d

Sending many hugs and much house clearing fortitude xxx

👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 7d

The NHS booking system wouldn’t let me book. The GP surgery said carers weren’t included when I asked and so did the pharmacy. When I mentioned the green book - because you kindly told me about it last year - they said the new advice for this year overruled it.

👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 7d

I paid again for that, just the flu free!

👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 7d

I am and I have, thank you x

👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 8d

I too have never made it and feel you are correct about this being the right time of year to try!

👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 12d

Good thank you! About to pack the car and head to Wales for @catthegeek.bsky.social’s birthday celebrations

👻Kizziaaargh Wildwoooh👻 @kizzia.bsky.social · 12d

I’m sorry they’ve been so crap!

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