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Random views myne owne. Canadian. Seeker of #Hiraeth. Mother of a resting Cello-wing Daughter. A latter-day OOwl fancier (with a good dose of Wren-fancying too). MA in Folklore Studies. #KDrama Addict. Learning 中文. Spins woolly yarns & story threads
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On Sat 29th Nov at 8pm, via Zoom, the next online talk fundraising for @folklorelibrary.bsky.social
I'll be hosting Rich Blackett who will be presenting on
WEREWOLVES: FACT, FICTION AND MYTH
Tickets are £5, including a recording, and are available with more details now from bit.ly/flaevents
I'll be hosting Rich Blackett who will be presenting on
WEREWOLVES: FACT, FICTION AND MYTH
Tickets are £5, including a recording, and are available with more details now from bit.ly/flaevents
November 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
On Sat 29th Nov at 8pm, via Zoom, the next online talk fundraising for @folklorelibrary.bsky.social
I'll be hosting Rich Blackett who will be presenting on
WEREWOLVES: FACT, FICTION AND MYTH
Tickets are £5, including a recording, and are available with more details now from bit.ly/flaevents
I'll be hosting Rich Blackett who will be presenting on
WEREWOLVES: FACT, FICTION AND MYTH
Tickets are £5, including a recording, and are available with more details now from bit.ly/flaevents
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It was great to finally see a Hoopoe for the first time, I caught this one flicking up cockroaches to swallow!
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It was great to finally see a Hoopoe for the first time, I caught this one flicking up cockroaches to swallow!
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
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I've found the most interesting account of a community's response to a witch from 1828 Shrewsbury. It's intriguing, tragic, and an insight into the realities of life on the fringes of acceptability. I am hoping to have it added to my article on shropshire witches this week. Im excited to share it!
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I've found the most interesting account of a community's response to a witch from 1828 Shrewsbury. It's intriguing, tragic, and an insight into the realities of life on the fringes of acceptability. I am hoping to have it added to my article on shropshire witches this week. Im excited to share it!
The Long Road Home
✍️ Annie Wilson
(with thanks to Daily Haiku, Facebook)
✍️ Annie Wilson
(with thanks to Daily Haiku, Facebook)
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The Long Road Home
✍️ Annie Wilson
(with thanks to Daily Haiku, Facebook)
✍️ Annie Wilson
(with thanks to Daily Haiku, Facebook)
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‘Do you believe in fairies? If you believe, clap your hands!’ ~ J M Barrie.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a fairy dusted #BookWormSat
🖼️ Arthur Rackham
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a fairy dusted #BookWormSat
🖼️ Arthur Rackham
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
‘Do you believe in fairies? If you believe, clap your hands!’ ~ J M Barrie.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a fairy dusted #BookWormSat
🖼️ Arthur Rackham
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a fairy dusted #BookWormSat
🖼️ Arthur Rackham
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This bill is important, because people like my own brother, who was not born in Canada, but with a Canadian parent, he would not be considered Canadian otherwise. (Military family)
Bill C-3 - Lost Canadians is in the Senate and hopefully will pass soon. #Canada
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Bill C-3 - Lost Canadians is in the Senate and hopefully will pass soon. #Canada
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
House committee adds language, security checks to 'Lost Canadians' citizenship bill | CBC News
The House of Commons immigration committee is recommending most adults eligible for birthright citizenship under the "Lost Canadians" bill fulfil similar requirements to immigrant applicants on langua...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This bill is important, because people like my own brother, who was not born in Canada, but with a Canadian parent, he would not be considered Canadian otherwise. (Military family)
Bill C-3 - Lost Canadians is in the Senate and hopefully will pass soon. #Canada
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Bill C-3 - Lost Canadians is in the Senate and hopefully will pass soon. #Canada
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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A final one for #BookWormSat which I just had to repost. The debut of the Cottingley Fairies as presented to the world by Arthur Conan Doyle in the December 1920 edition of The Strand. The editor calls two girls being clever with scissors and a camera 'An Epoch-Making Event'. So glad I own this!
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A final one for #BookWormSat which I just had to repost. The debut of the Cottingley Fairies as presented to the world by Arthur Conan Doyle in the December 1920 edition of The Strand. The editor calls two girls being clever with scissors and a camera 'An Epoch-Making Event'. So glad I own this!
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Did you listen to this week’s #Uncanny ep, Case 3: The Devil’s Den UFO🛸?
Here’s a clip from my interview with witness Terry Lovelace. Did Terry see something extraterrestrial that made him act bizarrely? Or is there an explanation for his feeling of sedation?
Listen wherever you get your podcasts👻
Here’s a clip from my interview with witness Terry Lovelace. Did Terry see something extraterrestrial that made him act bizarrely? Or is there an explanation for his feeling of sedation?
Listen wherever you get your podcasts👻
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Did you listen to this week’s #Uncanny ep, Case 3: The Devil’s Den UFO🛸?
Here’s a clip from my interview with witness Terry Lovelace. Did Terry see something extraterrestrial that made him act bizarrely? Or is there an explanation for his feeling of sedation?
Listen wherever you get your podcasts👻
Here’s a clip from my interview with witness Terry Lovelace. Did Terry see something extraterrestrial that made him act bizarrely? Or is there an explanation for his feeling of sedation?
Listen wherever you get your podcasts👻
Passed by a house this evening .... Oh my, looks like there's a mutiny about to happen!
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Passed by a house this evening .... Oh my, looks like there's a mutiny about to happen!
😱😱😱!!!!!!
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
😱😱😱!!!!!!
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"A Piskey’s laugh is a gay little laugh, and as unfettered as the song of a lark, and anybody hearing it is bound to feel happy and gay, no matter how wisht he happens to be before."
-Enys Tregarthen, ‘The Little Cake-bird’ from ‘North Cornwall Fairies and Legends’ #BookWormSat
🎨: Johnny Gruelle
-Enys Tregarthen, ‘The Little Cake-bird’ from ‘North Cornwall Fairies and Legends’ #BookWormSat
🎨: Johnny Gruelle
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"A Piskey’s laugh is a gay little laugh, and as unfettered as the song of a lark, and anybody hearing it is bound to feel happy and gay, no matter how wisht he happens to be before."
-Enys Tregarthen, ‘The Little Cake-bird’ from ‘North Cornwall Fairies and Legends’ #BookWormSat
🎨: Johnny Gruelle
-Enys Tregarthen, ‘The Little Cake-bird’ from ‘North Cornwall Fairies and Legends’ #BookWormSat
🎨: Johnny Gruelle
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Black-capped Chickadee
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Black-capped Chickadee
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Some pictures of the enchanting woods in Bellevaux (Bouillon). There must be fairies there.
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Some pictures of the enchanting woods in Bellevaux (Bouillon). There must be fairies there.
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Flu season is here and we know from experience that sick people are going to board your flight regardless. Learn how respiratory viruses spread on planes and give yourself and what precautions to take to minimize your chances. medicalnewsbulletin.com/up-air-how-r... 🧪 🦠 #virology #thanksgiving 🩺,⚕️
How Respiratory Viruses Spread on Plane Flights | Medical News Bulletin
Ten mathematicians model how respiratory diseases can spread during plane flights in a cabin thousands of feet in the air.
medicalnewsbulletin.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Flu season is here and we know from experience that sick people are going to board your flight regardless. Learn how respiratory viruses spread on planes and give yourself and what precautions to take to minimize your chances. medicalnewsbulletin.com/up-air-how-r... 🧪 🦠 #virology #thanksgiving 🩺,⚕️
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Bob Dylan at Leeds Arena last night. Couple sat behind who couldn't shut up (standard in 2025), skirmish in the two rows in front that simmered for the second half of the show. Bob with zero audience interaction, dimly-lit stage, no side screens, most songs changed almost to be unrecognisable. 10/10
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Bob Dylan at Leeds Arena last night. Couple sat behind who couldn't shut up (standard in 2025), skirmish in the two rows in front that simmered for the second half of the show. Bob with zero audience interaction, dimly-lit stage, no side screens, most songs changed almost to be unrecognisable. 10/10
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‘Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.'~ Frodo in LOTR, Tolkien. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Janka Latečková
🖼️ Janka Latečková
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
‘Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.'~ Frodo in LOTR, Tolkien. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Janka Latečková
🖼️ Janka Latečková
“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
✍️ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
#BookWormSat
✍️ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
#BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
✍️ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
#BookWormSat
✍️ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
#BookWormSat
“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.”
✍️William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
#BookWormSat
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.”
✍️William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
#BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.”
✍️William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
#BookWormSat
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.”
✍️William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
#BookWormSat
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November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
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'What I found in Lucy Maud Montgomery's pages was thrilling': Antonio of Green Gables
CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I.
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I.
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
'What I found in Lucy Maud Montgomery's pages was thrilling': Antonio of Green Gables | CBC Books
The Next Chapter's Trinidadian Canadian host recently travelled to the inaugural Cavendish Literary Festival in P.E.I. There, he visited Lucy Maud Montgomery's Cavendish home and fostered a new-found ...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
'What I found in Lucy Maud Montgomery's pages was thrilling': Antonio of Green Gables
CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I.
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
CBC Radio's Antonio Michael Downing reflects on an unexpected, remarkable pilgrimage to P.E.I.
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
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"'Fairy doctors', as the dealers in the preternatural are termed, did all that in them lay - but in vain. Father Tom came down, and tried what holier rites could do, but equally without result. The little boy was never seen again."
- J S Le Fanu, 'The Child That Went With The #Fairies'
#BookWormSat
- J S Le Fanu, 'The Child That Went With The #Fairies'
#BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"'Fairy doctors', as the dealers in the preternatural are termed, did all that in them lay - but in vain. Father Tom came down, and tried what holier rites could do, but equally without result. The little boy was never seen again."
- J S Le Fanu, 'The Child That Went With The #Fairies'
#BookWormSat
- J S Le Fanu, 'The Child That Went With The #Fairies'
#BookWormSat
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