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Mary B
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws…
Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. #amquerying
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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · Nov 17
If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
Spike Milligan
A path in a birch wood strewn with autumn leaves
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
A #Roman bronze medicine box, with a sliding lid and separate compartments to store medical substances like herbs and mineral products.
Found in Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, dating 2nd/3rd century AD.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt.

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🏺 #archaeology
A close-up of an metal box with a sliding lid, which is partially open. Inside, there are a two small compartments with a hinged metal flap, one of the is open. The box has a worn and corroded appearance with visible scratches and patina. It is displayed in a show case.
January 29, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Pigeons are often underrated. Today, this pigeon was watching me as I looked through my kitchen window. He was waiting for food.

#UKWildlife #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #EyeContact #Irridescent #Pigeon #NaturePhotography #Sonyalpha
The intense and focused stare of a pigeon awaiting food.
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Goodnight from Crowhythe Museum of Curiosities, where the stuffed weasels are yet again attempting to remove the velvet waistcoats imposed upon them. Goodnight from Alfie Bray, wondering if it’s too late an hour to ring the local curse-breakers. Goodnight from Hookland.
January 29, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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21rosa.bsky.social
Repost for #PhantomsFriday
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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phantomsfriday.bsky.social
Just a reminder that it's #PhantomsFriday again tomorrow (don't it come round quick?). All posts on #ghosts - words, art, #folklore, publications, haunted sites and popular culture all welcome.
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Book cover art, 1905 by Margaret Neilson Armstrong, US artist, designer, illustrator, author known for her Art Nouveau style #WomensArt
Book cover with five Art Nouveau style white flowers on stems surrounding the title text against a light purple background
January 29, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
I've heard people who were never Children of The Hum say pylons were portals to us. That's a bit wrong. Transmission towers were our temporary temples. It was the whole of The Hum that was gateway to the electric ley of the land. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex=Pylon Person #VOH
January 29, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Purple Petunias, 1925
by Georgia O'Keeffe #UnlockingWomensArt
Painting featuring a close-up of two purple blossoms with black centres
January 29, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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wittspat.bsky.social
For this #MosaicMonday, recalling a visit to the Musee Rolin in Autun many years ago, where this rather splendid but somewhat pensive sea bull is doing a few leisurely laps.
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
A fragment of Roman mosaic showing a colourful sea bull swimming towards the left. The bull is mostly in profile but with his head turned slightly towards us. The first coil of his tail is large, but it then peters out in a series of small undulations. At lower right of the fragment is an elegant trident.
January 26, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Goodnight from Alice Hawes, suddenly able to read the sky’s stars as a vow of devotion to a god so ancient it’s beyond language’s memory. Goodnight from Tobe Cracken, listening to the shadows promising to show him wonders if he’ll just step outside the pub. Goodnight from Hookland.
January 28, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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“Anna Boch”
Théo van Rysselberghe
c.1892

Anna Boch was a musician, intellectual & visionary collector - it is suggested she is the only person to have bought a work by Van Gogh during his lifetime.

In “Radical Harmony” - Neo-Impressionists exhibition, National Gallery, #London

#Art
Gallery caption - “In her studio, Anna Boch contemplates a painting on which she is working, beyond the viewer's gaze. Behind her a Japanese print, the scroll of a violin, books, paper and brushes all point to her multifaceted identity.”
January 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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New discovery: A wooden structure, identified as river bank protection of the #Roman harbour, has been unearthed in Cologne.

www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-...

#RomanArchaeology #archaeology 🏺
January 28, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
In the shade of the winter wood, the Tree Sprites may be sleeping, but it doesn’t mean that their dreams don’t walk. – Lou Kemp on her 1982 painting 'Wood Sprite Scratch IV'
January 28, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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drtobydriver.bsky.social
#TombTuesday 12 seconds of bright winter sun & a cold east wind across the ancient burial mound of Bryn Cader Faner in the Eryri/Snowdonia uplands

Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮

🎥 My own, Sunday
January 27, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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#ReliefWednesday
#Roman tombstone of Flavinus found under Hexham Abbey
floor.
The high ranking Signifer from Gaulish cavalry regiment of Petriana carries standard w sun god + wears a #torque, possibly mark of status among his Celtic people, as he tramples a barbarian.
A tall tombstone carved in relief, with a cavalry officer on his rearing horse, with standard in hand. Beneath is the kneeling, crouching image of a bearded barbarian with a club. Inscription below the translates: To the Venerated Departed: Here Lies Flavinus A Horse Rider of the Cavalry Regiment of Petriana Standard Bearer of the Troop of Candidus Aged 25, of 7 Years’ Service
January 28, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
I saw Merit’s beauty box last year when I visted the incredible Museo Egizio in Turin. Here’s a closer look at Merit’s fabulous blue glass kohl tube with applicator and her delightful blue glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads on the lid!
My photo shows a dark blue, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders, below the neck. It has a dark-blue circular glass lid, on top of which are two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills. The jar sits on a circular wooden display stand. In front of the jar is a blue glass eye makeup tube lying on its side. The glass is decorated with trails of white and yellow festoons. It contains a wooden applicator stick. Both are displayed on a glass shelf in the Egyptian Museum, Turin.
January 27, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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isabellemarie.bsky.social
"On savait que c'était une tombe d'exception... ça a été bien plus" : le trésor du Prince de Lavau se dévoile au public. #Archéologie
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
"On savait que c'était une tombe d'exception... ça a été bien plus" : le trésor du Prince de Lavau se dévoile au public
Des bijoux en or, un immense chaudron en bronze ou encore de la vaisselle luxueuse... Dix ans après les fouilles, l'exceptionnel trésor mis au jour dans la tombe d'un prince celte à Lavau est dévoilé ...
www.radiofrance.fr
January 24, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
Hookland is an odd county. Nowhere else in England has a tourist board happy to promote its haunted shoreline, boast of it including a record number of haunted light houses. A civic pride in phantoms is not the standard approach to encouraging day-trippers. – George Kindred
January 28, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
The phantom economy has many meanings. In England, a good ghost story is hard currency in a pub. It can be exchanged for ale. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
January 28, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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'When I Am Old I Shall Wear Purple' quilt art by textile artist/quilter Nancy Messier is named after the 1st line of the poem 'Warning" by Jenny Joseph, about fearless nonconformity and the liberation of older age #womensart
Quilt art with image of purple baseball boots Poem text
January 28, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Japanese artist Hiné Mizushima known for slow crafting, needle felting, weaving, making miniature collages, illustrations and puppet stop-motion animations #WomensArt
Photo of four different coloured felt cartoonish three dimensional octopus models against a blue background
January 28, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling
Rest of UK has so far resisted calls to make it mandatory for developers to install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
Yuki onna is a fearful #yokai appearing on snowy winter nights. She glides across the snow with her blue lips and transparent skin. Beware as her icy gaze can be deadly and she will suck the life force out of you and leave you to die in the snow.
#LegendaryWednesday #JapaneseFolklore
🎨Shigeru Mizuki
A woman leans forward with arms outstretched in the snow. Her face is as white as snow and her black hair flies about wildly.
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Fascinating world of ancient #glass: One of my favourite #Roman objects made of glass is this little basket (height 6.5cm). It is not clear what it was used for, possibly to hold cosmetics.

From Syria, dating 3rd century AD.

On display at British Museum

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🏺#archaeology
The picture shows a vessel in the shape of a two handled basket of brown colour.
January 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM