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#ScarySaturday 🎥🎬🍿
About to settle in for the night to watch an old Hammer flick on TV - 'Scars Of Dracula' 🧛🦇
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Reed smoulders beautifully in Hammers fabulous adaption of Guy Endores novel Werewolf of Paris. Gloriously told tale of werewolf from womb to tomb. 1961.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #hammerhorror #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam
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I particular like the colours of Vesuvius looking as though someone has fashioned it out of a lump of smooshed-together-different-coloured Play-Doh.
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Pterostylis barbata - Bird Orchid

One of Western Australia's more unusual looking orchids. The orchid's labellum is triggered by visiting pollinators trapping them inside the orchid's hood and forcing them to escape past the orchid's pollinia
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist
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A rainbow bee-eater briefly sat on the edge of the dam and I managed just a few frames through the shrubs before it took flight.
Such pretty birds.
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So, I've shown you crimson chats and orange chats.
Now I have a white-fronted chat for you.
This one took an early dip in the dam.
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Love a jacaranda but loves these Flame Trees more.
One from a few years ago…and it did look like a perfectly formed red Christmas tree from afar! 😍
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The Illawarra Flame Tree, 1941
oil on canvas
Adrian Feint (Australian painter 1894–1971)

The painting is part of The Joseph Brown Collection and is housed at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, Australia.

#art #painting #illustration
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Flames Tree … music connects us, I Love how some songs do that 😂💙🙏
Thanks for a great afternoon on the cruise ship. Felt fantastic to be doing what I love, singing rock ‘n roll in the high seas… well, in the middle of a big ocean.
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And here are the other two. I picked up the tatty one on the left for 50p on a charity book stall and became hooked. Over a few years I hunted down the rest. With the exception of 'The Second Creepy', which was edited by Hugh Walpole, they all appear to have been edited by John Galsworthy.
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Many thanks to everyone who contributed to #PhantomsFriday! It falls on yer actual Hallowe'en next Friday, so it would be great if some #BookWormSat enthusiasts would like to post something literary (or otherwise) of a suitably ghostly nature. Meanwhile, here are a few spooky 1930s anthologies I own
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For #caturday part of a precious #Roman funerary bed with bone carvings (2nd-1st c. BC) from Fossa Necropolis, Abruzzo, Southern Italy.

Notice the lions, dragons/dogs & last but not least a dolphin! 🐬

🏺 #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #cat #catsofbluesky
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My favourite stretch of the Antonine Wall, the Roman frontier in Scotland, can be found at Dullatur. Here the Wall's enormous ditch is remarkably well preserved, tangible evidence of the impressive scale of this 38-mile-long monument.
#RomanSiteSaturday
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I could not stand here without thinking about those who stood here long ago.

Human terror still leaches from the underworld beneath the #Colosseum floor.

We tourists stand on solid ground that was once sand to soak up blood.

📸 my own
#Colosseum #AncientRome #RomanSiteSaturday
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They were mainly purchased by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, for display in his ‘Japanisches Palais’ in Dresden which is said to have housed more than 24,000 porcelain objects.

You can see this vase on display in Gallery 37 on Level 2.

🐘🏺EA1992.114
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Only about twenty of these unusual ‘birdcage’ vases are known to have survived to the present day.

They were made in Japan in the 18th century at the famous Arita kilns, but they were designed to be exported to the Western market.
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Sarcophagus with scenes from the myth of Alcetis & Admetus, in Musei Vaticani 🏺
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Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026

Talks include:
"Rowtor Rocks: prehistoric art and ritual in the White Peak"
Prof. George Nash and Anna Clark of the Derbyshire Rock Art Group

A special one, this - some stunning new rock art finds at Rowtor!

Tickets here: chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...
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Derbyshire Archaeology Day

Saturday 31st January 2026, Winding Wheel Theatre, Chesterfield

Tickets here: chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...

Around 150 already sold (we usually sell out)

8 talks on current projects in Derbyshire and the Peak.

I'm going to trail the first one shortly ...