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Old Fox's series of ghost stories continues on my patreon today with "The Phantom Phaeton"! A collection of blood-tingling, gothic stories of unquiet graves, haunted rings & long-dead Roman legions. Join for these & thousands of other tales & recipes! patreon.com/annelouiseavery
October 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM Everybody can reply
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The recipe is delicious, the tale is a delight.

Many of the stories by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social about the world of #OldFox have serious messages behind them—messages of sorrow, fear, hope and courage—but some are simply sweet and joyous, as this one is. Do subscribe to read more.
🍂🐻🍐On my patreon today, a perfect October pudding: very simple, comforting & luxurious: the Bear of Moscow's delicious version of Auguste Escoffier's Poire belle Hélène! Join for autumnal cheer & thousands of seasonal stories & recipes! Wolf will even send you a card! patreon.com/annelouiseav... 🍐🐻🍂
October 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM Everybody can reply
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Sì belli e caldi i collant, ideali per giornate come oggi, ma, come dice quella vecchia volpe di OldFox, occhio a chi potresti incontrare... rischi di ritrovarteli tutti strappati 🤭😜
September 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM Everybody can reply
Damn oldFox tv lineup was raunchy. I forgot about that. That was there whole thing. Lol
September 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM Everybody can reply
September 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM Everybody can reply
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Noi lo abbiamo bloccato quello che ci stupisce che è seguito da alcuni dei più assidui Nostri Follower !è solo Oldfox che ringraziamo ci ha segnalato il “furto”
Dal profilo insiste pure dicendo che non c'è 2 senza 3🤣🤣🤣
August 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM Everybody can reply
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If this is the kind of gentle wisdom that appeals to you, do please consider subscribing to @annelouiseavery.bsky.social on Patreon for more stories like this, longer, exclusive tales and fantastic recipes. #OldFox 🦊

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August 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM Everybody can reply
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Do, please.

If you enjoy the stories of @annelouiseavery.bsky.social here, you will love her Patreon. The recipes are delicious and the longer tales will sweep you up in the world of #OldFox and his friends; a perfect escape in our troubled, haunting times.
Support my writing – join my patreon! There's an archive of hundreds of recipes and stories, and new longer tales are posted every week!
🍒On my patreon today, the Little Girl's Aunt's Stratigraphic Summer Trifle – created in the stormy summer of 1930. A delicious chaos of cream & raspberries & jelly & custard & Crème de Framboise & Madeira Cake! Suitable for village fêtes & garden parties & birthday teas! patreon.com/posts/134607...
August 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM Everybody can reply
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I adore my membership of @annelouiseavery.bsky.social’s Patreon. Her stories are never ‘mere trifles’ but the research that supports this Tale of a Trifle is amazing. #OldFox
🍒On my patreon today, the Little Girl's Aunt's Stratigraphic Summer Trifle – created in the stormy summer of 1930. A delicious chaos of cream & raspberries & jelly & custard & Crème de Framboise & Madeira Cake! Suitable for village fêtes & garden parties & birthday teas! patreon.com/posts/134607...
August 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM Everybody can reply
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Old Fox had been up since before dawn. He'd gone to the fields around the cottage, the wheat golden & heavy and dry, ready for harvest. He called to the land. He cut the first sheaf. Later he'd make his Lammas bread & take it to St Thomas's church, to the Lady Chapel, as all had done before him.
August 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM Everybody can reply
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Wolf isn't the only one looking forward to autumn ...
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Isn't it a little dark in here, said Old Fox, won't you come & join us in the meadow? I've had enough of summer, said Wolf, I want the North wind & syrup cake & bonfires in the orchard & blackberry jam & Michaelmas daisies & the geese all a-skeining in the mist.
August 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM Everybody can reply
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I'd never eaten seed cake, much less made it, but Bear's Sisters' Lammas Seed Cake from @annelouiseavery.bsky.social #OldFox is delicious and very easy. If it rains again this afternoon, I have a date with the oven.

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Today on my patreon, Bear's Sisters' Lammas Seed Cake – perfect for harvesting in the fields! Subscribe for this & hundreds of other stories & recipes! And help me immeasurably with my writing and all things! JOIN TODAY for a little respite from the stormy old world! www.patreon.com/posts/bears-...
August 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM Everybody can reply
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The Patreon account of @annelouiseavery.bsky.social is very special indeed. There’s a range of subscription options, each with its own benefits, but everyone gets to share in the splendid world of #OldFox stories and recipes that she has created. 🦊
🦊 Please consider joining my patreon – it makes such an enormous, life-changing difference to supporting my writing and my health! And Old Fox and Wolf will even send you a special card when you join, with Wolf's own drawings on the envelope to boot! 🐺
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July 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM Everybody can reply
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Today, there are recipes for not one, but TWO Midsummer Cakes!
#OldFox
June 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM Everybody can reply
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This text and the image of Wolf come from the original #OldFox post by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social in the other place. If you cherish thoughtful, timeless, ultimately hopeful tales, do please support Anne Louise's writing by subscribing to her Patreon, if you can.
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June 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM Everybody can reply
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The Elderly Squirrel is an @annelouiseavery.bsky.social #OldFox character who represents the 1930s rural poor: an often aged underclass which still exists today, experiencing financial vulnerability and social exclusion, yet whose poverty is hidden by the idyllic affluence that surrounds them.
The Elderly Squirrel's left hip hurt and he couldn't get very far without his stick, but each morning he still walked to the village shops and back. Buying a few rations for the day, sending a letter or two to equally elderly friends back in India, withdrawing his somewhat meagre pension.
June 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM Everybody can reply
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The Little Girl had a new sketchbook which she planned to fill with drawings and watercolours of the village flowers growing in the fields and woods and spinneys and water meadows and along the high hay-rows which edged every lane and footpath,
June 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM Everybody can reply
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Here's generosity! The Patreon of @annelouiseavery.bsky.social is (as I've mentioned before) my favourite place on the internet. It's so filled with love and laughter and poignancy and brilliant recipies that it feels like another, better world. Please support Anne Louise and #OldFox if you can. 🦊
🦊 Everyone who joins my patreon today – at any tier – will receive a little surprise present in the post! Just send me a message when you sign up with your address & a favourite character (Reynard, Wolf, Old Fox, Mouse etc) & it will be sent to you within the week! www.patreon.com/c/annelouise...
June 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM Everybody can reply
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P.S. Followers of @annelouiseavery.bsky.social will know and appreciate that she has chosen Howard to portray the gently, kindly, pragmatic and shell-shocked Doctor in her #OldFox stories. 🦊

(Howard took up acting as a way to deal with the PTSD he suffered after serving in the First World War.)
June 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM Everybody can reply
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For some reason, I thought of this today. A tale from Old Fox's Cottage, told by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social (originally in the other place) with a message of simple friendship that is eternally fresh and delightful. #OldFox
May 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM Everybody can reply
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It was Rogation-tide, when the land was blessed and the ancient bounds of the parish were beaten, every gospel oak and half-forgotten brook and fielden edge remembered and passed down the generations.
May 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM Everybody can reply
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Because this heartfelt story is so important, so vital in the course of our history and the pattern of this moment, @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has very kindly shared it here in its entirety, as a thread. #IslandOfFlowers #IslandOfFriends #OldFox
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An Island of Flowers, an Island of Friends.

The Stoat who ran the flower shop in Dorchester was originally from Madeira, his stately old family having established themselves there during the Napoleonic Wars. His kit-hood on the island in the parish of Santo da Serra had been idyllic,
May 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM Everybody can reply
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Like Powell's 'rivers of blood' speech, Starmer's 'island of strangers' will live on in infamy. But @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has written a wonderful riposte, ringing the bell for decency and humanity as only she can, and available for her Patreon subscribers now.
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May 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM Everybody can reply
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I will say this again: @annelouiseavery.bsky.social’s #OldFox Patreon account is my favourite place on the internet. It’s a world away from this world, yet still immensely relevant to it, where the true values persist and hope is as perennial as the seasons captured so beautifully in her writing. 🦊
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Up on my patreon today, a new recipe for Grandcub's fairy cakes, suitable for gifting to elves on old May eve. Join for this & hundreds upon hundreds of other stories & receipts &essays. And when you join, Wolf and Old Fox will even send you a special, paw-written card.
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May 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM Everybody can reply
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