Lynne S
@ghirlandia.bsky.social
Books and tea. Curiouser and curiouser. Cats 🐈
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Our own egg of a Sunday morning … If heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt … and a mug of sweet golden tea
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
Our own egg of a Sunday morning … If heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt … and a mug of sweet golden tea
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Our own egg of a Sunday morning … If heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt … and a mug of sweet golden tea
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Queen of Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-1596) is a character lifted from traditional folklore. William Shakespeare borrowed the name 'Titania' from the mythological daughters of Titans in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
art by Arthur Rackham (1908)
#FairyTaleTuesday
art by Arthur Rackham (1908)
#FairyTaleTuesday
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Queen of Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-1596) is a character lifted from traditional folklore. William Shakespeare borrowed the name 'Titania' from the mythological daughters of Titans in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
art by Arthur Rackham (1908)
#FairyTaleTuesday
art by Arthur Rackham (1908)
#FairyTaleTuesday
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"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
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"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
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November 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see …
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
Farther and farther I should see …
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see …
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
Farther and farther I should see …
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see …
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
Farther and farther I should see …
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see …
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
Farther and farther I should see …
To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat
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'Daylight Raid from My Studio Window, 7 July 1917' South Kensington by John Lavery
(Ulster Museum)
(Ulster Museum)
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
'Daylight Raid from My Studio Window, 7 July 1917' South Kensington by John Lavery
(Ulster Museum)
(Ulster Museum)
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Monet’s father cut off his allowance when he refused to abandon art.
He survived thanks to his devoted aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, who secretly supported him.
He survived thanks to his devoted aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, who secretly supported him.
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Monet’s father cut off his allowance when he refused to abandon art.
He survived thanks to his devoted aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, who secretly supported him.
He survived thanks to his devoted aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, who secretly supported him.
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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November 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
The Beech Wood
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
The Beech Wood
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
The Beech Wood
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
The Beech Wood
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Meanwhile, the children were visiting the downstairs kitchen
Home Life
1881
Thomas Crane
#legendarywednesday
Home Life
1881
Thomas Crane
#legendarywednesday
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Meanwhile, the children were visiting the downstairs kitchen
Home Life
1881
Thomas Crane
#legendarywednesday
Home Life
1881
Thomas Crane
#legendarywednesday
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Trenches on the Somme
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Trenches on the Somme
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
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To commemorate Remembrance Sunday is this painting of peace, ‘Peace Concluded’, John Everett Millais, 1856. Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Millais shows a wounded British officer reading The Times newspaper's report of the end of the Crimean War.
Millais shows a wounded British officer reading The Times newspaper's report of the end of the Crimean War.
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
To commemorate Remembrance Sunday is this painting of peace, ‘Peace Concluded’, John Everett Millais, 1856. Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Millais shows a wounded British officer reading The Times newspaper's report of the end of the Crimean War.
Millais shows a wounded British officer reading The Times newspaper's report of the end of the Crimean War.
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
John McRae
Canadian, d. Ypres, 1918
Howard Butterworth #BookWormSat
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
John McRae
Canadian, d. Ypres, 1918
Howard Butterworth #BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
John McRae
Canadian, d. Ypres, 1918
Howard Butterworth #BookWormSat
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
John McRae
Canadian, d. Ypres, 1918
Howard Butterworth #BookWormSat
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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When Whistler showed 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,' in 1875, he outraged the chief moralist of art John Ruskin: 'I... never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' And so a lawsuit began.
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
When Whistler showed 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,' in 1875, he outraged the chief moralist of art John Ruskin: 'I... never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' And so a lawsuit began.
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Berry Picking, Mains of Gray, Dundee, painting by James McIntosh Patrick (1907-98).
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Berry Picking, Mains of Gray, Dundee, painting by James McIntosh Patrick (1907-98).
Reposted by Lynne S
The King's College Chapel, at the University of Cambridge, is considered one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture and features the world's largest fan vault. The Chapel was built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515 CE.
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The King's College Chapel, at the University of Cambridge, is considered one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture and features the world's largest fan vault. The Chapel was built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515 CE.
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The Funeral of a Viking.
This is Frank Bernard Dicksee’s classic 1893 painting of a dead viking burning on a boat being pushed to sea. It’s now displayed at the Manchester Art Gallery.
#wyrdwednesday
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This is Frank Bernard Dicksee’s classic 1893 painting of a dead viking burning on a boat being pushed to sea. It’s now displayed at the Manchester Art Gallery.
#wyrdwednesday
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November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Funeral of a Viking.
This is Frank Bernard Dicksee’s classic 1893 painting of a dead viking burning on a boat being pushed to sea. It’s now displayed at the Manchester Art Gallery.
#wyrdwednesday
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This is Frank Bernard Dicksee’s classic 1893 painting of a dead viking burning on a boat being pushed to sea. It’s now displayed at the Manchester Art Gallery.
#wyrdwednesday
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