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Sunday Sea Songs @sundayseasongs.bsky.social · Apr 24
Francis Child was an entire mood, turns out
a photo of Francis James Child with meme-like text superimposed that reads "on the whole, this week has been no laughing matter" (which is quoted here from a letter he wrote in his 20s)
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Unicorn Folk features Concert & CD reviews + links to the latest edition of Filby’s Folk a podcast inc folk music in all its varieties + a comprehensive listing of gigs in Herts, Cambs, Beds, Bucks, Essex & beyond in the Unicorn Diary inc all your local festive folky events: unicornfolk.uk
Folk Music: Listings, Reviews & Podcasts - Unicorn Folk
Find lots of information about 'Folk' music events, clubs, festivals & musicians in the UK with added CD reviews and lots of related links.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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WISTFULBOT
smolrobots.bsky.social Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 3d
Oh look, it's that time of year again! Time to place your orders for the 2026 Small Robots Calendar! It's £30, and this year's theme is Wistfulbot Goes for a Walk. It's got contemplative pictures and some sort-of poetry I guess? Anyway, the order form is here: forms.gle/AmdadzcTvzt8...
2026 Small Robots Calendar Order Form
This is the form for ordering a 2026 Small Robots Calendar. It's a wall calendar featuring twelve brand new full-colour illustrations of Wistfulbot going for a walk in various landscapes, thinking abo...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
stan rogers' shipwreck song was so inspiring it saved a man's life in an actual shipwreck, hard to beat that
~ Connection to the sinking of the Marine Electric On February 12, 1983 the ship Marine Electric was carrying a load of coal from Norfolk, Virginia to a power station in Somerset, Massachusetts. The worst storm in forty years blew up that night, and the ship sank at about four o'clock in the morning on February 13. The ship's chief mate, 59-year-old Robert M. "Bob" Cusick, was trapped in the deckhouse as the ship went down. His snorkeling experience helped him avoid panic and swim to the surface, but he was left to spend the night alone on a partially deflated lifeboat he eventually reached, in water barely above freezing and air much colder. Huge seas washed over him, and each time he was not sure that he would ever reach the surface again to breathe. Battling hypothermia, he was tempted to allow himself to fall unconscious and be washed away. Just then he remembered the concluding stanzas of "The Mary Ellen Carter". (9) 12:43 三 And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again. Rise again, rise again -though your heart it be broken Or life about to end. No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend, Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again. As Cusick tells in One Warm Line, a documentary about Rogers, he started to sing it and soon was alternately shouting out "Rise again, rise again" and holding his breath as the seas washed over him. (10](11) At seven o'clock that morning a Coast Guard helicopter spotted him and pulled him to safety. 19 Only three men of the thirty-four who had been aboard survived the wreck. After his ordeal, Cusick wrote a letter to Stan Rogers telling him what
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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ONCE AGAIN MY TIME TO SHINE BABYYYY
sundayseasongs.bsky.social Sunday Sea Songs @sundayseasongs.bsky.social · May 1
it's all sad October songs

how did we get here
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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welp

time to break out the Emotional Support Coal Mining Album again
August 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Leicester Cathedral has a new audio guide, and l'm delighted to announce that I'm the narrator.

Swing by sometime and let me (well... my voice) show you around!
A photo of Leicester cathedral as seen from the entrance, with a sign on the welcome desk which says "new audio guide available"
August 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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12/10 humaning here

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August 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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You fill out my census
Like a Knight eating porridge
Like a mountaineers sing time
Like a duck named Lorraine
Like a worm eating breakfast
Like a cheap Billy Ocean
You fill out my census
Don’t film me again RS
August 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Baby moorhens, also known as swimming pompoms, seen on the canal this morning. Two adults also in attendance. #UKCanals
August 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Honeyfuggle [HUHN-ee-FUHG-uhl]
*Also honeyfackle, honeyfugle, honeyfogle*
(v.)
-To flatter or sweet-talk to get what you want.
-To wheedle, blandish or cajole; to ballyhoo.

Used in a sentence:
“Oh, sweetie, if you think you can honeyfuggle me with your your mellifluous compliments—think again!”
Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and an illustration of a prince trying to schmooze up a disinterested princess.
August 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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🎶 but how they dreamed of the ocean
the children the clung to the stories we’d told
like a thing they could hold

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Dream of the Ocean
YouTube video by Jon Boden - Topic
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August 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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#pixelart #artpost
July 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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We are at Loggerheads. Literally
The road sign for the village of Loggerheads
July 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
sundayseasongs.bsky.social
got to see the Hookers in Denver over the weekend, and it was an absolute delight as always

y'all should check them out if you don't know them
sundayseasongs.bsky.social Sunday Sea Songs @sundayseasongs.bsky.social · Jul 27
🎶now more clearly I can see
I ain't got no need to leave
cos I laugh with the sinners that I used to hear
and I waltz with the demons that I used to fear

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The Krog Street Strut
YouTube video by Blair Crimmins and The Hookers - Topic
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July 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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🎶now more clearly I can see
I ain't got no need to leave
cos I laugh with the sinners that I used to hear
and I waltz with the demons that I used to fear

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The Krog Street Strut
YouTube video by Blair Crimmins and The Hookers - Topic
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July 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Scorpio: Don't start a garden. Don't dig in your yard. Do not unearth the sins of the past.
July 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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🎶 Now you're the skipper and your own damn boss, and the boss gets lonely, too
But don't you be thinking that any young buck is the best that you can do

Jenny, let the damn fool go

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Jenny in the Roadstead
YouTube video by Gordon Bok - Topic
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July 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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🎶 and where will I go? and where can I stay? you've knocked down the skid row and hauled it away

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Larimer Street
YouTube video by Utah Phillips - Topic
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July 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It's St Swithun's Day, have a poem where he's grumpy about the way he was buried, and was actually really happy when Winchester Cathedral started to sink because it was built without foundations.
St Swithun Dreams of Rain Though famously housed in a shrine in Winchester Cathedral, St Swithun left instructions for his body to be buried outside the church, “ubi et pedibus praetereuntium et stillicidiis ex alto rorantibus esset obnoxius” trans: “where it might be subject to the feet of passers-by and to the raindrops pouring from on high” I desired a humble ending: entrusted to the earth, with the sky as a canopy, and drops of rain to wash away my pride. My successors thought otherwise. A Saint requires a marble tomb, central shrine, gold in abundance, they thought. No rain reaches me here. No water from above. When the floods tried to drown the foundations, I prayed they would let them, that the waters would scatter my bones amidst the collapse, that the cathedral would wash away in a swell of rain and I, fragmented as I am, would rest again as I wished, beneath vast and sodden skies.
July 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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been training as a piano tuner and I JUST SUCCESSFULLY SET EQUAL TEMPERAMENT

pianos are silly

I'm so pleased
July 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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🎶 and she says don't get me wrong about you and me
I just can't figure out what we're supposed to be

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Joshua Kadison - Beau's All Night Radio Love Line (Official Video)
YouTube video by All Seasons Music
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July 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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sarahcoomer.bsky.social
Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
An illustration inspired by the Brocken Spectre phenomenon - a figure full of light in the foreground is projected into shadow on the horizon. Or something. A black and white illustration inspired by the Jonathan Miller adaptation of the M R James story Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, My Lad. A dark figure in the distance pursues a man pictured in silhouette against a sun setting over the sea A black and white illustration of the Robert Eggars film Nosferatu. The figure of a woman in early Victorian high mourning walks through a snowy graveyard, flanked by two metal cross shaped grave markers An ink drawing of the side view of a crow cawing
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
310) Coasterbot. Waddles back and forth across the table just below any hovering drinks and catches them wherever they're placed down with a contented sigh as it folds its legs away. #SmallRobotsRemastered
A wide, disc-shaped robot with a happy face on its edge and four little banded legs on its underside.
July 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM