Rosalind Ahmed
@21rosa.bsky.social
Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
Repost of more imaginative and accomplished artwork by @mariastrutz.bsky.social for #FoxFriday Maria has used rosehip ink and black tea as part of her palette; incredible! ❤️
#autumn #botany
#autumn #botany
An autumnal fox wandering through a rosehip thicket.
Painted with black tea, rosehip ink and watercolours.
Also: Spot the micraster echinoid 🤍
#FoxFriday 🦊🐾🌖 #FossilFriday
Painted with black tea, rosehip ink and watercolours.
Also: Spot the micraster echinoid 🤍
#FoxFriday 🦊🐾🌖 #FossilFriday
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Repost of more imaginative and accomplished artwork by @mariastrutz.bsky.social for #FoxFriday Maria has used rosehip ink and black tea as part of her palette; incredible! ❤️
#autumn #botany
#autumn #botany
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
#FingerpostFriday pointing the way to Housesteads Roman fort
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#FingerpostFriday pointing the way to Housesteads Roman fort
A beautiful haiku by @hermiteveryday.bsky.social
And I noticed these, almost translucent, red and bronze leaves upon woodland ground earlier this week #ForestFriday #autumn
And I noticed these, almost translucent, red and bronze leaves upon woodland ground earlier this week #ForestFriday #autumn
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A beautiful haiku by @hermiteveryday.bsky.social
And I noticed these, almost translucent, red and bronze leaves upon woodland ground earlier this week #ForestFriday #autumn
And I noticed these, almost translucent, red and bronze leaves upon woodland ground earlier this week #ForestFriday #autumn
A repost for #PhantomsFriday
#FolktaleWeek is coming up soon, so I’m reposting some old creations.
For last year’s “blight” prompt, I illustrated a Fear Gorta, an Irish phantom of hunger.
And I combined the prompts “gate” and “bone” to depict Orpheus at the gates of Hades.
For last year’s “blight” prompt, I illustrated a Fear Gorta, an Irish phantom of hunger.
And I combined the prompts “gate” and “bone” to depict Orpheus at the gates of Hades.
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A repost for #PhantomsFriday
Repost for #ForestFriday
President Higgins kindly provided us with the foreword for the book ‘See The Wood From The Trees’, which documents the story of storm felled trees felled from the Áras that he had gifted to be used by furniture design students @atu-ie.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Repost for #ForestFriday
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
President Higgins kindly provided us with the foreword for the book ‘See The Wood From The Trees’, which documents the story of storm felled trees felled from the Áras that he had gifted to be used by furniture design students @atu-ie.bsky.social
artisanhouse.ie/product/see-...
artisanhouse.ie/product/see-...
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
President Higgins kindly provided us with the foreword for the book ‘See The Wood From The Trees’, which documents the story of storm felled trees felled from the Áras that he had gifted to be used by furniture design students @atu-ie.bsky.social
artisanhouse.ie/product/see-...
artisanhouse.ie/product/see-...
#FolkyFriday hibernation might sound cosy, but not so much for Adam de la Roche, lord of Roch Castle. A witch foretold his death by adder bite within the year. For 11 moons he cowered in his castle, until one grave cold night he sent a servant out for firewood to heat his chamber 🧵1/2
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#FolkyFriday hibernation might sound cosy, but not so much for Adam de la Roche, lord of Roch Castle. A witch foretold his death by adder bite within the year. For 11 moons he cowered in his castle, until one grave cold night he sent a servant out for firewood to heat his chamber 🧵1/2
An 18th century murderer was executed in Newcastle, then his corpse chained high on Winter's Gibbet in remote Redesdale. It rattled & decayed on the windswept moors for years, until even its clothes rotted away. The gibbet was dismantled but the ghost is still seen hanging around #PhantomsFriday
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
An 18th century murderer was executed in Newcastle, then his corpse chained high on Winter's Gibbet in remote Redesdale. It rattled & decayed on the windswept moors for years, until even its clothes rotted away. The gibbet was dismantled but the ghost is still seen hanging around #PhantomsFriday
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~Charles W. Eliot
art by Marc Potts
#BookologyThursday
~Charles W. Eliot
art by Marc Potts
#BookologyThursday
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~Charles W. Eliot
art by Marc Potts
#BookologyThursday
~Charles W. Eliot
art by Marc Potts
#BookologyThursday
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I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust …
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Albert Edelfelt #BookologyThursday
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Albert Edelfelt #BookologyThursday
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust …
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Albert Edelfelt #BookologyThursday
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Albert Edelfelt #BookologyThursday
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‘The Great Famine remains a decisive turning point in Irish history. It came to be seen not merely as a natural disaster, but as a political event – a symbol of colonial exploitation and neglect.’
Niamh Gallagher:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Niamh Gallagher:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Niamh Gallagher · Carrion and Earth: Ireland’s Great Famine
Although Ireland had endured earlier famines – including one in the 1740s that, proportionally, claimed more lives...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
‘The Great Famine remains a decisive turning point in Irish history. It came to be seen not merely as a natural disaster, but as a political event – a symbol of colonial exploitation and neglect.’
Niamh Gallagher:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Niamh Gallagher:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
The Official Folktale Week Prompts are here! Come join us on Instagram. www.instagram.com/folktaleweek/
October 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Official Folktale Week Prompts are here! Come join us on Instagram. www.instagram.com/folktaleweek/
Time to give this # some Bluesky love 🧵by @debrastyer.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing all the #FolktaleWeek2025 contributions from the community #FolkloreThursday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkyFriday #PhantomsFriday #BookologyThursday #MythologyMonday @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing all the #FolktaleWeek2025 contributions from the community #FolkloreThursday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkyFriday #PhantomsFriday #BookologyThursday #MythologyMonday @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social
It's Happening...Time for Folktale Week 2025!
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Time to give this # some Bluesky love 🧵by @debrastyer.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing all the #FolktaleWeek2025 contributions from the community #FolkloreThursday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkyFriday #PhantomsFriday #BookologyThursday #MythologyMonday @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing all the #FolktaleWeek2025 contributions from the community #FolkloreThursday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkyFriday #PhantomsFriday #BookologyThursday #MythologyMonday @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social
The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm @conwayhall.bsky.social and online
A legendary trip through the Haunted Landscape with our day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore.
#TheHauntedLandscape
www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm @conwayhall.bsky.social and online
A legendary trip through the Haunted Landscape with our day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore.
#TheHauntedLandscape
www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#FolkloreThursday in Knurr & Spell a small, hard ball (knurr) was launched by a levered, wooden trap (spell); players used a bat of ashwood to hit the knurr as far as possible. Originating on the Yorkshire moors & first documented c. 1760, the game was also known as nipsy or Northern Spell
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
#FolkloreThursday in Knurr & Spell a small, hard ball (knurr) was launched by a levered, wooden trap (spell); players used a bat of ashwood to hit the knurr as far as possible. Originating on the Yorkshire moors & first documented c. 1760, the game was also known as nipsy or Northern Spell
"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind" Toni Morrison 'Beloved' #BookologyThursday
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind" Toni Morrison 'Beloved' #BookologyThursday
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#BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this Thursday🎉
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
~P.G. Wodehouse
Hello, dear Bibliophiles! Thrilled to announce that #BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this week 🎉 with the heartfelt theme:
✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨
~P.G. Wodehouse
Hello, dear Bibliophiles! Thrilled to announce that #BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this week 🎉 with the heartfelt theme:
✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this Thursday🎉
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Averil Burleigh, British (1883-1949), Bacchants, c. 1930s, watercolor and drawing, 129.54 x 114.3 cm, private collection
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Averil Burleigh, British (1883-1949), Bacchants, c. 1930s, watercolor and drawing, 129.54 x 114.3 cm, private collection
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Today's #Nudivember is a swimming Melibe. I haven't seen this species swim, but I have seen our local ones and they're extremely silly swimmers. They swim exactly how you'd expect a slug would swim, flailing about in a way that could never be described as graceful.
#TradArt
#TradArt
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Today's #Nudivember is a swimming Melibe. I haven't seen this species swim, but I have seen our local ones and they're extremely silly swimmers. They swim exactly how you'd expect a slug would swim, flailing about in a way that could never be described as graceful.
#TradArt
#TradArt
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reposted by Rosalind Ahmed
had a terrible dream that I fell in love with the perfect person and then met their parents and
#Newsnight
#Newsnight
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
had a terrible dream that I fell in love with the perfect person and then met their parents and
#Newsnight
#Newsnight
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Andrea Kowch, Night Hill. Nitess💤
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Andrea Kowch, Night Hill. Nitess💤
On the last Sunday before Advent prayer starts with: “Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people”. This gave rise to Stir Up Sunday, when Xmas puddings are made: "Stir up, we beseech thee, The Pudding in the pot & when we get home, We’ll get it all hot!" #LegendaryWednesday
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
On the last Sunday before Advent prayer starts with: “Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people”. This gave rise to Stir Up Sunday, when Xmas puddings are made: "Stir up, we beseech thee, The Pudding in the pot & when we get home, We’ll get it all hot!" #LegendaryWednesday