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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 28m

I saw one of these fancy, fancy beasts today among fallen chestnut leaves on a hillside track. This pic is from a website (see Alt Text) and the one I saw was paler but somehow almost neon. When it wriggled the gaps between its segments were like a dozen tiny black smiles. So hard not to touch it!

A specimen of the yellow form of the Pale Tussock Moth caterpillar (not my one, this is from: https://www.wildlifeinsight.com/guide-to-british-caterpillars/identifying-hairy-caterpillars/), a lemon and lime coloured beauty with a pink tail spur, proceeding along a dead twig

Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1h

Once you leave the woods you realize the valley floor is itself quite high up, in the greater scale of things. From this side of the village the landscape suddenly fans out into a wide plateau hazy with dust.

"Though I walk through barren lands still the
Sun comes out"

A wooden telegraph pole dripping with endless trails and gobbets of hardened tar, on the edge of a flat shorn field under blue afternoon sky.

A single lichenous concrete post that may or may not have ever been part of something stands at the edge of a series of fields, tussocky grass giving way to ploughed earth bathed in the pearly light of a misted sun. In the distance, the black crabbed form of a tree appears to be waving. "And the satyr shall call to his fellow."

Back along the path through the woods. The sun has begun to descend, low-hanging golden fruit in the black-green branches of a chestnut tree.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 12h

Winsor & Newton's new colors for 1887! Be the first to try!

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 8h

Had a great time chatting to @robinallender.bsky.social
Do please have a listen loves💖✨💕

Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 11h

This month on The Allender Calendar I’m delighted to be joined by the fabulous author @regretteruane.bsky.social to discuss her brilliant novels Birding and This is Yesterday. Lots of Manics chat too!

The Allender Calendar: Episode 14: Rose Ruane

This month on The Allender Calendar I talk to the fabulous writer Rose Ruane. Rose has published two novels, Birding (2024), which was longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, and This is...

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 21h

Great, let's crowdfund a director's fee. I'd like it to be helmed by Tarsem Singh who did The Cell

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 21h

Ahaha I'm so glad Madame Harel has found another fan

They should do a sequel to that film called Mannequin that had Kim Catrall in it, only set in the cut-and-thrust, red-and-gold world of occult cheesemaking

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 22h

Of course the Orne also has its share of girls under glass. I still miss this one a bit

Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · May 13

Outside the Camembert museum, cheese imperatrix Marie Harel watches over the town like a Weird Tales bad girl. You there, boy! Is that a vegan Babybel in your hand?

Long shot of a gold and red robed and hooded goddess wielding a ladle and other accoutrements of dairy supremacy, in her glass cabin. Below is a plaque citing the sculptor as Laurent YOKEL. Don't say anything

Closer 3/4 pic showing off her splendid raiment and cold, dead eyes. She has the face and body of an 80s boutique mannequin.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

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La Horla - an 1887 horror story written in the style of a journal by Guy de Maupassant, after an initial, much shorter version was published in the newspaper Gil Blas, October, 1886.

Cover of 1908 edition, illustrated by William Julian-Damazy

I've tried to read it but it's too much for me... 1/

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 23h

Oh yeah I visited the mannequin phone box today. I couldn't get very close to the elegant eveningwear brunette - it's in someone's garden - but even from a distance the trained eye can detect subtle hints that this may be a Brit job

A mannequin in silhouette stands in a vintage red telephone box in a private garden. On its left is a sign saying "WELCOME TO ROYSTON VASEY
YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE"

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 23h

Autumn deepening here. Release the puffballs! Also some nightshade or whatever

A very oval puffball, I think these are all soft puffballs

The red berries of some kind of nightshadey plant

A puffball in its older form, flattened, yellowed and patched with brown, among clover and fallen twigs

Just one more puffball with its stalk visible thrusting out of the plantain

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently people in the middle ages used to sleep in two blocks, one in the daytime and one in the night-time, so normal can go f*ck itself for now, but yeah getting 5 hours straight(ish) does sound like a reasonable goal. Bon courage

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

OMG what a downer

I mean I'm not an expert but they sound like a total party ruiner. My sympathies, really

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

Aw don't be afraid, that's just Phossy Bear, the fun-loving mascot of the Beelzebub Match Company, who may or may not be animated by the spirits of hundreds of overworked factory girls with dissolving jawbones

James @jamesrhodes.bsky.social · 1d

Someone has dumped a large teddybear in the graveyard.

It is not by a child's grave. Nor a recent grave. It's just there propped up a tree stump.

I hope there's not a corpse inside it.

A giant teddy bear slouches against a tree stump in a graveyard at night.

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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social · 1d

Digging this: youtu.be/piUpqDnya0M?...

SML - Industry

YouTube video by subsuelo

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be taking photos of it in due course but this afternoon the "not today Satan" thing just came racing over me like the Severn Bore. I can't even confirm whether or not the mannequin was trying to strangle itself with the phone cord, sorry.

#LaCabina

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

Also due to roadworks the detour to Saint-Hilaire has been taking us past a house with an old red UK phone box in the garden. Cute! Until today I finally spotted the mannequin inside it.

Why did I even expect there NOT to be a mannequin inside it?

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 1d

I dedicate this number to a certain Kia Rio that refused to start when we were due to leave for my driving lesson today

It eventually got its shit together 10 mins later and I reached my lesson only five minutes late, but something beautiful has been lost

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfRD...

Trust You

YouTube video by Mesh - Topic

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 2d

This beautiful set arrived! Daiei Gothic, Vol 2, with three films that span 1960 to 1970.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

All that oil though. You wouldn't be able to get a proper handhold, would you? And the lumbering footsteps of a Crezzident on the stairs, about to burst in offering stilted congratulations about what wonderful free spirits you both are

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

Oh god imagine Doing It to this in the pilchard bed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqDQ...

Breath Control

YouTube video by Recoil - Topic

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

IT'S NEVER ENOUGH

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

This whole thread reminds me quite forcibly of those 90s/early 2000s TV and newspaper articles about Alan Wilder's house, except he had more medical paraphernalia. I remember one Guardian article about his metal bed, upon which one could maim oneself with impressive ease

Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 3d

The Crezz - Thames's expensive and doomed attempt to create a middle class soap, covering the doings of the residents of a Kensington crescent who all have frightfully fancy interior design.
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Isla Blair's frightfully chic split level chrome and glass pad.

Nicholas Ball sleeps in his postmodern pilchard tin bed.

The token gay couple's Italian restaurant-style abode.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

Some of the windows at Beauficel for #stainedglasssunday

A tall slender arch of abstract green, yellow and blue panes, mainly triangles and lozanges, framed by red, violet and pink rectangles, set in the grey stone wall.

Another window of similar design above the pews, its alcove rippling up one side with warm wavy light filtered through the coloured panes.

This window is of similar concept but taller and in two halfs separated by a stone upright.

Small square window featuring an orange and yellow cross separating the window into four quadrants. The left and bottom right are themselves filled with crosses of orange and lemon; the bottom left quadrant contains an "A", the top right an omega, all against a background of sage green and marine blue panes. The frame is of scarlet and burgundy.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday after passing it several times I finally found Beauficel church open. There's a fair bit of interest in here, especially the wood carvings, including the crucifixion.

The passage just inside the church door, showing the plastered ceiling with slender stone vault, and the wooden door with a trefoil of red glass in its arch. Sun from outside warms the worn stone flags and through the open panel of the door the meadows and trees can be seen.

The altar table with a bouquet of peach, red and lilac fake flowers; behind it, a wooden crucifixion flanked by a stepped arrangement of gilt candlesticks and a reredos of red baize and carved wood.

Detail of theJesus carved in cracked pale wood, with a bleached driftwood quality as if taken from a sunken ship. There is a diagonal crack across his face.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 3d

Update: I have searched for the outrage of my fellows and not found it. Clearly there must be a technical error of some sort on the sight

Seriously, everyone goes on about the videos to "Closer" and the Coil "Tainted Love" being in MoMA but this video is a real interdimensional masterpiece

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