Joy Parry
@joy13.bsky.social
"Some stranger, somewhere, still remembers you because you were kind to them when no one else was."
Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.
Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.
November 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#BookWormSat
"You grow up readin’ about pirates & cowboys & spacemen & stuff, and jus’ when you think the world’s all full of amazin’ things, they tell you it’s really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hang-in’ about for millions of years ..."
Pratchett/Gaiman - Good Omens
"You grow up readin’ about pirates & cowboys & spacemen & stuff, and jus’ when you think the world’s all full of amazin’ things, they tell you it’s really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hang-in’ about for millions of years ..."
Pratchett/Gaiman - Good Omens
November 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#BookWormSat
"You grow up readin’ about pirates & cowboys & spacemen & stuff, and jus’ when you think the world’s all full of amazin’ things, they tell you it’s really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hang-in’ about for millions of years ..."
Pratchett/Gaiman - Good Omens
"You grow up readin’ about pirates & cowboys & spacemen & stuff, and jus’ when you think the world’s all full of amazin’ things, they tell you it’s really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hang-in’ about for millions of years ..."
Pratchett/Gaiman - Good Omens
#BookWormSat
"Thank you, ma'am - thank you, sir. But I can't leave my father, nor own anybody nearer than him. And I don't want to be a lady - thank you all the same." [Here Eppie dropped another curtsy]. "I couldn't give up the folks I've been used to."
George Eliot - Silas Marner
"Thank you, ma'am - thank you, sir. But I can't leave my father, nor own anybody nearer than him. And I don't want to be a lady - thank you all the same." [Here Eppie dropped another curtsy]. "I couldn't give up the folks I've been used to."
George Eliot - Silas Marner
November 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#BookWormSat
"Thank you, ma'am - thank you, sir. But I can't leave my father, nor own anybody nearer than him. And I don't want to be a lady - thank you all the same." [Here Eppie dropped another curtsy]. "I couldn't give up the folks I've been used to."
George Eliot - Silas Marner
"Thank you, ma'am - thank you, sir. But I can't leave my father, nor own anybody nearer than him. And I don't want to be a lady - thank you all the same." [Here Eppie dropped another curtsy]. "I couldn't give up the folks I've been used to."
George Eliot - Silas Marner
#FolkyFriday
Boreas - god of winds and storms - brought winter to the lands of Europe by sweeping down from the cold mountains of Thrace and chilling the air with his icy breath. His daughter Chione [Khione] was able to control snow, ice and hail ...
🎨S Atchill * Rick Riordon
Boreas - god of winds and storms - brought winter to the lands of Europe by sweeping down from the cold mountains of Thrace and chilling the air with his icy breath. His daughter Chione [Khione] was able to control snow, ice and hail ...
🎨S Atchill * Rick Riordon
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#FolkyFriday
Boreas - god of winds and storms - brought winter to the lands of Europe by sweeping down from the cold mountains of Thrace and chilling the air with his icy breath. His daughter Chione [Khione] was able to control snow, ice and hail ...
🎨S Atchill * Rick Riordon
Boreas - god of winds and storms - brought winter to the lands of Europe by sweeping down from the cold mountains of Thrace and chilling the air with his icy breath. His daughter Chione [Khione] was able to control snow, ice and hail ...
🎨S Atchill * Rick Riordon
#FolkyFriday
Ageing in reverse during the winter months, exhausted from keeping the land covered in frost & snow, the Cailleach - now a young woman - hands power over to Brigid [bringer of light] in spring, going into hibernation to be reborn as an old woman at Samhain.
🎨Eran Fowler * ClairObscurArt
Ageing in reverse during the winter months, exhausted from keeping the land covered in frost & snow, the Cailleach - now a young woman - hands power over to Brigid [bringer of light] in spring, going into hibernation to be reborn as an old woman at Samhain.
🎨Eran Fowler * ClairObscurArt
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#FolkyFriday
Ageing in reverse during the winter months, exhausted from keeping the land covered in frost & snow, the Cailleach - now a young woman - hands power over to Brigid [bringer of light] in spring, going into hibernation to be reborn as an old woman at Samhain.
🎨Eran Fowler * ClairObscurArt
Ageing in reverse during the winter months, exhausted from keeping the land covered in frost & snow, the Cailleach - now a young woman - hands power over to Brigid [bringer of light] in spring, going into hibernation to be reborn as an old woman at Samhain.
🎨Eran Fowler * ClairObscurArt
#LegendaryWednesday
Breton legend tells how Nimue [Vivien] was unable to leave the Forest of Broceliande. Merlin would frequently visit to show her the beautiful things he saw on his travels, such as a tree in which sat all the birds of the world ...
🎨Daniel Mackie & Jean-Noël Rochut
Breton legend tells how Nimue [Vivien] was unable to leave the Forest of Broceliande. Merlin would frequently visit to show her the beautiful things he saw on his travels, such as a tree in which sat all the birds of the world ...
🎨Daniel Mackie & Jean-Noël Rochut
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
#LegendaryWednesday
Breton legend tells how Nimue [Vivien] was unable to leave the Forest of Broceliande. Merlin would frequently visit to show her the beautiful things he saw on his travels, such as a tree in which sat all the birds of the world ...
🎨Daniel Mackie & Jean-Noël Rochut
Breton legend tells how Nimue [Vivien] was unable to leave the Forest of Broceliande. Merlin would frequently visit to show her the beautiful things he saw on his travels, such as a tree in which sat all the birds of the world ...
🎨Daniel Mackie & Jean-Noël Rochut
#WyrdWednesday
Lenape myth tells how, during a bitterly cold winter, Rainbow Crow sacrificed his gentle voice & colourful plumage to collect a burning branch from the Sky Spirit & save fellow animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
🎨Davina Behin Jones
Lenape myth tells how, during a bitterly cold winter, Rainbow Crow sacrificed his gentle voice & colourful plumage to collect a burning branch from the Sky Spirit & save fellow animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
🎨Davina Behin Jones
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#WyrdWednesday
Lenape myth tells how, during a bitterly cold winter, Rainbow Crow sacrificed his gentle voice & colourful plumage to collect a burning branch from the Sky Spirit & save fellow animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
🎨Davina Behin Jones
Lenape myth tells how, during a bitterly cold winter, Rainbow Crow sacrificed his gentle voice & colourful plumage to collect a burning branch from the Sky Spirit & save fellow animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
🎨Davina Behin Jones
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"... [Efnisien/Efsnysien] crept in among the dead bodies of the Irish, two Irishmen came to him and cast him into the cauldron. He stretched himself out in the cauldron, so that the cauldron burst into four pieces, and his heart burst also."
The Mabinogion
🎨T Prytherch
"... [Efnisien/Efsnysien] crept in among the dead bodies of the Irish, two Irishmen came to him and cast him into the cauldron. He stretched himself out in the cauldron, so that the cauldron burst into four pieces, and his heart burst also."
The Mabinogion
🎨T Prytherch
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"... [Efnisien/Efsnysien] crept in among the dead bodies of the Irish, two Irishmen came to him and cast him into the cauldron. He stretched himself out in the cauldron, so that the cauldron burst into four pieces, and his heart burst also."
The Mabinogion
🎨T Prytherch
"... [Efnisien/Efsnysien] crept in among the dead bodies of the Irish, two Irishmen came to him and cast him into the cauldron. He stretched himself out in the cauldron, so that the cauldron burst into four pieces, and his heart burst also."
The Mabinogion
🎨T Prytherch
... and an evening London skyline ... the end of a wonderful day 💜
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
... and an evening London skyline ... the end of a wonderful day 💜
The London Eye, Memorials to the Great War from Belgium, to D'Oyley Carte and to Arthur Sullivan ...
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The London Eye, Memorials to the Great War from Belgium, to D'Oyley Carte and to Arthur Sullivan ...
... London skyline [from Waterloo Bridge] looking beautiful in the autumn sunshine ...
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
... London skyline [from Waterloo Bridge] looking beautiful in the autumn sunshine ...
Weekend trip to London to see the brilliant Lion King - after a wander round Covent Garden ...
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Weekend trip to London to see the brilliant Lion King - after a wander round Covent Garden ...
#MythologyMonday
The Mabinogion says of Arthurian knight Cai "When the rain was heaviest, whatever he held in his hand would be dry for a handbreadth before and behind, because of the greatness of his heat, and when his companions were coldest, he would be as fuel for them to light a fire”.
🎨14C MS
The Mabinogion says of Arthurian knight Cai "When the rain was heaviest, whatever he held in his hand would be dry for a handbreadth before and behind, because of the greatness of his heat, and when his companions were coldest, he would be as fuel for them to light a fire”.
🎨14C MS
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#MythologyMonday
The Mabinogion says of Arthurian knight Cai "When the rain was heaviest, whatever he held in his hand would be dry for a handbreadth before and behind, because of the greatness of his heat, and when his companions were coldest, he would be as fuel for them to light a fire”.
🎨14C MS
The Mabinogion says of Arthurian knight Cai "When the rain was heaviest, whatever he held in his hand would be dry for a handbreadth before and behind, because of the greatness of his heat, and when his companions were coldest, he would be as fuel for them to light a fire”.
🎨14C MS
#MythologyMonday
As it approaches death, the Phoenix makes a nest of aromatic herbs which it sets fire to. The Phoenix is reborn in an identical form ...
13th C English Bestiary [@britishlibrary.bsky.social]
& Northumberland Bestiary [J Paul Getty Museum]
As it approaches death, the Phoenix makes a nest of aromatic herbs which it sets fire to. The Phoenix is reborn in an identical form ...
13th C English Bestiary [@britishlibrary.bsky.social]
& Northumberland Bestiary [J Paul Getty Museum]
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#MythologyMonday
As it approaches death, the Phoenix makes a nest of aromatic herbs which it sets fire to. The Phoenix is reborn in an identical form ...
13th C English Bestiary [@britishlibrary.bsky.social]
& Northumberland Bestiary [J Paul Getty Museum]
As it approaches death, the Phoenix makes a nest of aromatic herbs which it sets fire to. The Phoenix is reborn in an identical form ...
13th C English Bestiary [@britishlibrary.bsky.social]
& Northumberland Bestiary [J Paul Getty Museum]
#BookWormSat
"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass."
Edward Thomas - Thaw
🎨Alexei Savrasov
"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass."
Edward Thomas - Thaw
🎨Alexei Savrasov
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#BookWormSat
"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass."
Edward Thomas - Thaw
🎨Alexei Savrasov
"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass."
Edward Thomas - Thaw
🎨Alexei Savrasov
#BookWormSat
"... the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families. These myriads of cows stretching under her eyes from the far east to the far west outnumbered any she had ever seen at one glance before ..."
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
🎨Unknown Artist [Pinterest]
"... the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families. These myriads of cows stretching under her eyes from the far east to the far west outnumbered any she had ever seen at one glance before ..."
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
🎨Unknown Artist [Pinterest]
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#BookWormSat
"... the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families. These myriads of cows stretching under her eyes from the far east to the far west outnumbered any she had ever seen at one glance before ..."
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
🎨Unknown Artist [Pinterest]
"... the groups of cattle formed tribes hereabout; there only families. These myriads of cows stretching under her eyes from the far east to the far west outnumbered any she had ever seen at one glance before ..."
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
🎨Unknown Artist [Pinterest]
#BookWormSat
"... Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ..."
Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village
📷Godwick Deserted Village, Norfolk
"... Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ..."
Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village
📷Godwick Deserted Village, Norfolk
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#BookWormSat
"... Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ..."
Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village
📷Godwick Deserted Village, Norfolk
"... Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ..."
Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village
📷Godwick Deserted Village, Norfolk
#BookWormSat
"... [this visit to Helstone] had not been exactly what she expected. There was change everywhere ... a great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days ..."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
"... [this visit to Helstone] had not been exactly what she expected. There was change everywhere ... a great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days ..."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#BookWormSat
"... [this visit to Helstone] had not been exactly what she expected. There was change everywhere ... a great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days ..."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
"... [this visit to Helstone] had not been exactly what she expected. There was change everywhere ... a great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days ..."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
#FolkyFriday
"The Nine Men's Morris is fill'd up with mud"
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nine Men's Morris - also known as Merelles, Merrils or Mill - was common by Shakespeare's time. Carvings of boards exist in Indian temples, Christian churches and even on barrels on the Mary Rose.
"The Nine Men's Morris is fill'd up with mud"
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nine Men's Morris - also known as Merelles, Merrils or Mill - was common by Shakespeare's time. Carvings of boards exist in Indian temples, Christian churches and even on barrels on the Mary Rose.
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
#FolkyFriday
"The Nine Men's Morris is fill'd up with mud"
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nine Men's Morris - also known as Merelles, Merrils or Mill - was common by Shakespeare's time. Carvings of boards exist in Indian temples, Christian churches and even on barrels on the Mary Rose.
"The Nine Men's Morris is fill'd up with mud"
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nine Men's Morris - also known as Merelles, Merrils or Mill - was common by Shakespeare's time. Carvings of boards exist in Indian temples, Christian churches and even on barrels on the Mary Rose.
#FolkyFriday
Arthur & Owain are so engrossed in their game of Gwyddbwyll that they ignore Ravens swooping down "on the men who had previously caused them injury, pain & loss" and carrying off their heads, eyes, ears & arms behind them!
[The Mabinogion]
Arthur & Owain are so engrossed in their game of Gwyddbwyll that they ignore Ravens swooping down "on the men who had previously caused them injury, pain & loss" and carrying off their heads, eyes, ears & arms behind them!
[The Mabinogion]
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#FolkyFriday
Arthur & Owain are so engrossed in their game of Gwyddbwyll that they ignore Ravens swooping down "on the men who had previously caused them injury, pain & loss" and carrying off their heads, eyes, ears & arms behind them!
[The Mabinogion]
Arthur & Owain are so engrossed in their game of Gwyddbwyll that they ignore Ravens swooping down "on the men who had previously caused them injury, pain & loss" and carrying off their heads, eyes, ears & arms behind them!
[The Mabinogion]
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
#WyrdWednesday
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#WyrdWednesday
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
Hope it all goes well for you - I was told in 2009 that I would need a knee replacement "within a decade" ... still not even on the waiting list! Wishing you a speedy [and as painless as possible] recovery from the op.
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Hope it all goes well for you - I was told in 2009 that I would need a knee replacement "within a decade" ... still not even on the waiting list! Wishing you a speedy [and as painless as possible] recovery from the op.
#FairyTaleTuesday
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
#MythologyMonday
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#MythologyMonday
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social