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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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theghostmonk.bsky.social
A final one for #BookWormSat which I just had to repost. The debut of the Cottingley Fairies as presented to the world by Arthur Conan Doyle in the December 1920 edition of The Strand. The editor calls two girls being clever with scissors and a camera 'An Epoch-Making Event'. So glad I own this!
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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bookwormsat.bsky.social
🧚 @racheldeering.bsky.social Keeping an eye on #BookWormSat from enchanted woods. There are definitely some little folk hereabouts.
Photo of autumnal hillside currently being walked by me.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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bobfry.bsky.social
Just some Bowie I have not listened to for a few years. I think that the Lodger Album is often overlooked.

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David Bowie - Look Back In Anger (Official Video)
YouTube video by David Bowie
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November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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bookwormsat.bsky.social
‘Do you believe in fairies? If you believe, clap your hands!’ ~ J M Barrie.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a fairy dusted #BookWormSat
🖼️ Arthur Rackham
An illustration by Arthur Rackham for J.M. Barrie's book Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. It depicts a scene near the Serpentine, the large lake that divides Kensington Gardens from Hyde Park. The illustration features several fairies in the foreground and middle ground, some flying and some near the water's edge. The water is calm, reflecting the bare trees and a bridge in the distance. A black metal fence runs along the bank on the right side of the illustration.
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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folkloretwitcher.bsky.social
“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”

✍️ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
#BookWormSat
19th century painting - landscape scene - mist floating over a pond - early morning or evening
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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theotheralice.bsky.social
@missy-misanthrope.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
A schoolteacher friend told me the kids in her class believe the Stay Belows are now 'at mud'. Usually such gossip is a good signal of how things are. However, my trip to Wystan Lumb suggests otherwise. The shadows in the water still whisper. – #EmilyCBanting, diary entry November 15th, 1982
A calm body of inland water, an old, thin stone ramp – littered with late autumn's bullying of willow – leads gently into it. The solar alchemy of a year knowing it is dying enfolds everything.
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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helleborezine.bsky.social
Most viewed in UK news. Truly surreal. Io Pan! 🐐✨
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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pjrobichaud.bsky.social
If you live in the UK, you can now pre-order 'Stories of the Stones' directly from Reaktion Books or your favourite bookseller. Publication date is 1 February, 2026!

Pre-order here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories...
Cover of 'Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany,' depicting a seventeenth-century illustration of Stonehenge.
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
‘To the men of both sides alike, worn out… it began equally to appear doubtful whether they should continue to slaughter one another…‘For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?…You may go and kill whom you please, but I don’t want to do so any more!’— Tolstoy, W&P for #BookWormSat
🖼️ Igor Karash
An illustration by Igor Karash for a 2014 edition of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. The illustration depicts a dramatic battle scene with a central figure in a military uniform, possibly a commander, in a dynamic pose. In the background, soldiers on horseback and on foot are engaged in combat on a hilly landscape under a stormy sky. A flag with a crest is visible at the top of the image.
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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signemaene.com
'But sorrow and silence,
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge

🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat
Artwork of trees and branches. Dark. Black and light yellowish colour.
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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elsinor.bsky.social
#BookWormSat

"Erl-King will do you grievous harm.
...
The Erl-King lives by himself all alone in the heart of the wood in a house which has only the one room. His house is made of sticks and stones and has grown a pelt of yellow lichen."
Angela Carter
Picture shows misty forest during colder months with several birch trees standing in the foreground.
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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flackjd.bsky.social
“...I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am LIVING in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else.”

-A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#BookWormSat
Front cover of the first US edition of "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts (1905). A little girl with short black hair is wearing a black dress and holding a doll. She is sitting and looking up at a dark sky with large fluffy white clouds and yellow starlike birds.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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21rosa.bsky.social
"On a winter tree you see the snow white as her neck & face; her eyes sparkled. Perfect in size & shape her forehead, dark brows. Her hair was curly...She took the Knight to Avalon, that beautiful island". The fairy queen chooses Sir Lanval as lover in a medieval lai by Marie of France #BookWormSat
🎨 'Queen Mab', a later iteration of the Fairy Queen, by Arthur Rackham (1906). The auburn haired fairy queen wears a crown and wields a sceptre/wand. Her train is held by two sprites
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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folkloretwitcher.bsky.social
.. says she, a pointin' of her finger at it,

Nimmy nimmy not
Yar name's Tom Tit Tot

Well, when that hard her, that shruck awful, an' awa' flew into the dark, an' she niver saw it noo more.

✍️Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon, Tom Tit Tot, Suffolk (County Folklore: Printed Ex. No: 2) 1893 #BookWormSat
Black and white illustration of two figures - one, a small impish man with a tail, wearing black breeches and a black cap. He's facing a young woman who is wearing a long dress partly covered by an apron. She is pointing her finger at him and saying: "Nimmy nimmy not, Your Name's Tom Tit Tot!"
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
‘Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.'~ Frodo in LOTR, Tolkien. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Janka Latečková
Artwork depicting two Elven figures from the Vanyar, a clan of Elves from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. A figure stands on the left, clad in light-colored robes and a helmet. This figure holds a spear and a shield. A second figure on the right, also in flowing robes, holds a sheathed sword. Both figures have long, flowing hair which. Between the two figures is a stylized, intertwined tree motif. The tree's roots extend downwards into a blue, wave-like pattern. The figures and the tree are framed within a large circular border featuring intricate, swirling knotwork designs.
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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signemaene.com
'Yes, the fairies still abide here.'
- L.M. Montgomery

🎨Anna Billing
#BookWormSat
Painting of the moon shining through the trees. Green field with small white flowers, mist.
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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lizanderson.bsky.social
From this week on the foreshore, my first Thames cannon ball eroding out of the mud between some concretion and an ancient timber. I’ve found muskets & canister shot, but never one of these. Known as a ‘falconet’ cannon ball because it was fired from a falconet, a fairly light, manoeuvrable gun 1/
Just eroding out of the mud between concretion and an ancient timber on the foreshore, and disguised among gravel, a small cannon ball, traces of corrosion visible on its surface. In my hands, the muddy cannon ball, known as a falconet, once extracted from its resting place on the foreshore. After some careful ‘knocking’ I’ve managed to get rid of some of the corrosion and rust, to see the original iron layer of the spherical falconet cannon ball in my hands. Turning the falconet over in my hands, I can see a hole eroding out of the bottom due to centuries of immersion in the river. The hole would have been covered by a nodule once it had been cast, the nodule has eroded away. Falconets did not have gunpowder in them.
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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dan23freedom.art
🏷️ The Cozy Stone Capsule
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📷 1/80 sec at f/9,0, ISO 800, 50 mm standard 24-50mm —👤 #dan23freedom
#️⃣ #Photography #Nature #Trees #Autumn #Fall #Germany #StoneBuilding #AutumnForest #RusticArchitecture #HiddenRetreat #ForestSanctuary #SeasonalColors #WoodlandCharm #QuietRefuge #ArchitecturalDetail
A small, round stone structure partially hidden among tall trees in a forest during autumn. The ground is carpeted with fallen leaves in warm shades of orange, yellow, and brown. The building’s roof is blanketed with a layer of autumn leaves, blending gently with the earthy tones around it. Dark wooden doors and slatted windows add rustic character. Ivy climbs a nearby tree trunk, and green plants and ferns peek through the leaf litter, adding life and texture. Sunlight filters softly through the canopy, bathing the scene in a peaceful, golden glow. — A circle of stone, Where secrets are sown.
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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bookwormsat.bsky.social
'It lived down there in the deep green hollow,
My own old home, and the fairies say
The word of a bird is a thing to follow,
So I was away a night and a day.'
-The Changeling, Charlotte Mew.

@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!

🎨Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Cute illustration of a fairy leaning against a bird. They're sitting on a tree branch.
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
Just realised the account has reached 10k followers! Thank you to everyone who supports the account and the artists featured! You help to bring some much needed colour to the world ♥️
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany.
The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2

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A small square mosaic glass inlay displayed against a dark background, showing an ibis, a long-legged bird with a curved beak walking on a thin red ground line. The inlay is light green with a slightly porous, pitted surface and slightly chipped edges.
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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kpw1453.bsky.social
Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
beesincampanula.bsky.social
And there she lullèd me asleep,
And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!—
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!’
Keats
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
#BookwormSat
Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928) Bristol Museum & Art Gallery 1901
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM