Claribella
@claribella.bsky.social
Books. Cats. Tea. In no particular order. Not your Angel in the House.
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Claribella
@claribella.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Meet Harry & Stan, feline goth brothers bravely seeing off the ginger cat from next door
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Happy 268th birthday William Blake.
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Happy 268th birthday William Blake.
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The Ancient of Days: Frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy, 1794, colour relief etching with added hand-colouring by William Blake, English poet, artist & visionary; born #OTD 1757.
British Museum
British Museum
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
The Ancient of Days: Frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy, 1794, colour relief etching with added hand-colouring by William Blake, English poet, artist & visionary; born #OTD 1757.
British Museum
British Museum
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Not whistling while I work, but listening to just the most BRILLIANT music, including The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Modern English, Dead Can Dance, Talk Talk, Simple Minds (2nd album), and although some of these bands are still around, God, the late 70s and early 80s were so, so *brilliant* musically.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Not whistling while I work, but listening to just the most BRILLIANT music, including The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Modern English, Dead Can Dance, Talk Talk, Simple Minds (2nd album), and although some of these bands are still around, God, the late 70s and early 80s were so, so *brilliant* musically.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Bewitched and enchanted by the new Florence + the Machine album 'Everybody Scream'. Every song is so good. Artistic reference points abound but I hear P J Harvey resonances.
#florence+themachine #everybodyscream
youtu.be/wRfet_VLbzU?...
#florence+themachine #everybodyscream
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Florence + The Machine - Sympathy Magic (Official Video)
YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO
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November 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Bewitched and enchanted by the new Florence + the Machine album 'Everybody Scream'. Every song is so good. Artistic reference points abound but I hear P J Harvey resonances.
#florence+themachine #everybodyscream
youtu.be/wRfet_VLbzU?...
#florence+themachine #everybodyscream
youtu.be/wRfet_VLbzU?...
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PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
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This silk mourning dress, c.1876, was designed for the strict rituals of Victorian grief. Made of black silk, it has beaded cuffs, tassel trim, and a pleated skirt. Decoration was permitted, but only in black.
October 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This silk mourning dress, c.1876, was designed for the strict rituals of Victorian grief. Made of black silk, it has beaded cuffs, tassel trim, and a pleated skirt. Decoration was permitted, but only in black.
As a treat to myself after a difficult week, I've been listening to the autobiography of the talented @kathyburke.bsky.social. Witty, perceptive, funny and honest. Love it ❤️
Listen to A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F449MVN...
Listen to A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F449MVN...
A Mind of My Own
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 'This is a book about being raised as a feral, motherless child; starting work at 17; immortalising several of this country’s most endearing catchphrases; t...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
As a treat to myself after a difficult week, I've been listening to the autobiography of the talented @kathyburke.bsky.social. Witty, perceptive, funny and honest. Love it ❤️
Listen to A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F449MVN...
Listen to A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F449MVN...
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'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer
Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires
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October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
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31 years ago today
Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff Astoria, 20th October 1994
Photos by Owen Davies
#manicstreetpreachers #astoria #caerdydd #cymru #cardiff #wales #cardiffmusichistory
Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff Astoria, 20th October 1994
Photos by Owen Davies
#manicstreetpreachers #astoria #caerdydd #cymru #cardiff #wales #cardiffmusichistory
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
31 years ago today
Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff Astoria, 20th October 1994
Photos by Owen Davies
#manicstreetpreachers #astoria #caerdydd #cymru #cardiff #wales #cardiffmusichistory
Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff Astoria, 20th October 1994
Photos by Owen Davies
#manicstreetpreachers #astoria #caerdydd #cymru #cardiff #wales #cardiffmusichistory
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English embroiderer and Pre-Raphaelite artist's model Jane Morris was born #OnThisDay in 1849. It is believed that the embroidery of intertwined floral sprays for this c. 1878 blue silk bag with a metal mount was designed and worked by Morris. V&A collection. #fashionhistory
October 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
English embroiderer and Pre-Raphaelite artist's model Jane Morris was born #OnThisDay in 1849. It is believed that the embroidery of intertwined floral sprays for this c. 1878 blue silk bag with a metal mount was designed and worked by Morris. V&A collection. #fashionhistory
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"[Kipling] told me that in his own part of Sussex he had noticed a sharp division between benevolent lands and tracts of the countryside which seemed maleficent. 'There is a wood, he told me, 'which is full of a sense of ferocity and evil, secretive and menacing.'"
- R T Hopkins
#Hookland #Kipling
- R T Hopkins
#Hookland #Kipling
October 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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October 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I grew up with Cicely Mary Barker’s flower fairies books and used to attempt to fashion wardrobes for wooden peg dolls out of leaves. This is a true wood nymph’s dress, c1918 Lucile, ethereal layers and embellishments @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #kelvingroveartgallery #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
October 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I grew up with Cicely Mary Barker’s flower fairies books and used to attempt to fashion wardrobes for wooden peg dolls out of leaves. This is a true wood nymph’s dress, c1918 Lucile, ethereal layers and embellishments @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #kelvingroveartgallery #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Entries 1 to 43 of an ongoing project reimagining Beatles songs as old, mid century design inspired film posters.
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Entries 1 to 43 of an ongoing project reimagining Beatles songs as old, mid century design inspired film posters.
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This will be forever one of my favourite garments in the V&A. It is a late #1890s coat from Marshall & Snelgrove, featuring hand embroidered sweet cicely flowers with white felt petals that float on top of blue velvet, V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
October 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This will be forever one of my favourite garments in the V&A. It is a late #1890s coat from Marshall & Snelgrove, featuring hand embroidered sweet cicely flowers with white felt petals that float on top of blue velvet, V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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October 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
MSP hidden gem. Beautiful melancholy.
Door to the River - Manic Street Preachers, 2002
#manics #foreverdelayed
youtu.be/cg31h83yGTA?...
Door to the River - Manic Street Preachers, 2002
#manics #foreverdelayed
youtu.be/cg31h83yGTA?...
Door to the River
YouTube video by Manic Street Preachers - Topic
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October 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
MSP hidden gem. Beautiful melancholy.
Door to the River - Manic Street Preachers, 2002
#manics #foreverdelayed
youtu.be/cg31h83yGTA?...
Door to the River - Manic Street Preachers, 2002
#manics #foreverdelayed
youtu.be/cg31h83yGTA?...
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This is the last of the Croydon postcards.
October 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is the last of the Croydon postcards.
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“A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH” (1946) dirs. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Marius Goring
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Marius Goring
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH” (1946) dirs. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Marius Goring
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Marius Goring
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
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Still Life, Bouquet of Dahlias and White Book, 1923
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16664
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16664
September 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Still Life, Bouquet of Dahlias and White Book, 1923
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16664
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16664
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