Joy Parry
@joy13.bsky.social
"Some stranger, somewhere, still remembers you because you were kind to them when no one else was."
Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.
Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.
Time for us to stand up to the US and tell them that they cannot bully us. I will not buy US goods while they show us so little respect. People died to help the US after 9/11 - we need to accept they are no longer our allies ... 😢
#HandsOffGreenland
apnews.com/article/denm...
#HandsOffGreenland
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Trump says 8 European countries will face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
President Donald Trump says he'll impose a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.
apnews.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Time for us to stand up to the US and tell them that they cannot bully us. I will not buy US goods while they show us so little respect. People died to help the US after 9/11 - we need to accept they are no longer our allies ... 😢
#HandsOffGreenland
apnews.com/article/denm...
#HandsOffGreenland
apnews.com/article/denm...
#BookWormSat
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot - Adam Bede
🎨Sandro Botticelli
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot - Adam Bede
🎨Sandro Botticelli
January 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
#BookWormSat
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot - Adam Bede
🎨Sandro Botticelli
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
George Eliot - Adam Bede
🎨Sandro Botticelli
#BookWormSat
"Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
"Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
January 17, 2026 at 3:08 PM
#BookWormSat
"Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
"Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used - not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless."
Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
Perhaps it's time to end the awarding of a Nobel Peace Prize as it obviously means so little to receive one. If Machado had sold it because she needed the money, I could sympathise, but to give it away like a tacky trinket shows how undeserving of this wonderful honour she is.
#NobelPeacePrize
#NobelPeacePrize
Maria Corina Machado tells Sky News she presented Trump with Nobel Peace Prize
Maria Corina Machado tells Sky News she presented Trump with Nobel Peace Prize
Machado told Sky's US correspondent James Matthews that she gave Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal.
news.sky.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Perhaps it's time to end the awarding of a Nobel Peace Prize as it obviously means so little to receive one. If Machado had sold it because she needed the money, I could sympathise, but to give it away like a tacky trinket shows how undeserving of this wonderful honour she is.
#NobelPeacePrize
#NobelPeacePrize
#WyrdWednesday
"The rat turned its head towards him. 'Miss Whiskers says that if there's anything you've got to say to her, you can tell it to her yourself,' said Door.
'Miss Whiskers?'
Door shrugged. 'It's a literal translation' she said. 'It sounds better in rat.'"
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
"The rat turned its head towards him. 'Miss Whiskers says that if there's anything you've got to say to her, you can tell it to her yourself,' said Door.
'Miss Whiskers?'
Door shrugged. 'It's a literal translation' she said. 'It sounds better in rat.'"
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
January 14, 2026 at 9:36 PM
#WyrdWednesday
"The rat turned its head towards him. 'Miss Whiskers says that if there's anything you've got to say to her, you can tell it to her yourself,' said Door.
'Miss Whiskers?'
Door shrugged. 'It's a literal translation' she said. 'It sounds better in rat.'"
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
"The rat turned its head towards him. 'Miss Whiskers says that if there's anything you've got to say to her, you can tell it to her yourself,' said Door.
'Miss Whiskers?'
Door shrugged. 'It's a literal translation' she said. 'It sounds better in rat.'"
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
#LegendaryWednesday
Japanese tree spirits - Kodama - live in ancient forests. Sometimes heard, but rarely seen, sentient trees bleed when chopped down & walk during the twilight hours ...
📷Aokigahara Forest
🎨Unknown Artist
Japanese tree spirits - Kodama - live in ancient forests. Sometimes heard, but rarely seen, sentient trees bleed when chopped down & walk during the twilight hours ...
📷Aokigahara Forest
🎨Unknown Artist
January 14, 2026 at 7:34 PM
#LegendaryWednesday
Japanese tree spirits - Kodama - live in ancient forests. Sometimes heard, but rarely seen, sentient trees bleed when chopped down & walk during the twilight hours ...
📷Aokigahara Forest
🎨Unknown Artist
Japanese tree spirits - Kodama - live in ancient forests. Sometimes heard, but rarely seen, sentient trees bleed when chopped down & walk during the twilight hours ...
📷Aokigahara Forest
🎨Unknown Artist
😢😢
In Dec. Rep. Lawler voted to advance H.R. 845, a bill that would roll back ESA protections for gray wolves across 44 states. This vote ignored both human and wolf constituents and puts wolves lives at risk.
🔗 Read more from our Board President, on why strong ESA protections matter: bit.ly/3Lru8oT
🔗 Read more from our Board President, on why strong ESA protections matter: bit.ly/3Lru8oT
January 14, 2026 at 6:35 PM
😢😢
#LegendaryWednesday
In Thomas Millington's tale, the orphaned children were abandoned in Wayland Wood & left to die by their uncle - so that he could claim their inheritance. The uncle got his come-uppance, losing all his money and ending his days in a debtor's prison.
📷Sculpture - John Bell
In Thomas Millington's tale, the orphaned children were abandoned in Wayland Wood & left to die by their uncle - so that he could claim their inheritance. The uncle got his come-uppance, losing all his money and ending his days in a debtor's prison.
📷Sculpture - John Bell
January 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
#LegendaryWednesday
In Thomas Millington's tale, the orphaned children were abandoned in Wayland Wood & left to die by their uncle - so that he could claim their inheritance. The uncle got his come-uppance, losing all his money and ending his days in a debtor's prison.
📷Sculpture - John Bell
In Thomas Millington's tale, the orphaned children were abandoned in Wayland Wood & left to die by their uncle - so that he could claim their inheritance. The uncle got his come-uppance, losing all his money and ending his days in a debtor's prison.
📷Sculpture - John Bell
#WyrdWednesday
"... [The goose] in her cackling voice
Said: ‘Peace! Now take heed every man
And hear the judgement I shall forth bring;
My wit is sharp, I hate all tarrying;
I advise him, though he were my brother,
Unless she loves him, let him love another!’"
from Chaucer - Parliament of Fowls
"... [The goose] in her cackling voice
Said: ‘Peace! Now take heed every man
And hear the judgement I shall forth bring;
My wit is sharp, I hate all tarrying;
I advise him, though he were my brother,
Unless she loves him, let him love another!’"
from Chaucer - Parliament of Fowls
January 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
#WyrdWednesday
"... [The goose] in her cackling voice
Said: ‘Peace! Now take heed every man
And hear the judgement I shall forth bring;
My wit is sharp, I hate all tarrying;
I advise him, though he were my brother,
Unless she loves him, let him love another!’"
from Chaucer - Parliament of Fowls
"... [The goose] in her cackling voice
Said: ‘Peace! Now take heed every man
And hear the judgement I shall forth bring;
My wit is sharp, I hate all tarrying;
I advise him, though he were my brother,
Unless she loves him, let him love another!’"
from Chaucer - Parliament of Fowls
I love these ... Kvaje Kage ["Moron Cakes"] being sold at Kjer’s Brød in Videbæk, Denmark as a light-hearted response to Trump's threats to invade & annex Greenland!
#Greenland #KvajeKage #MoronCakes #KjersBrød
#Greenland #KvajeKage #MoronCakes #KjersBrød
January 13, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I love these ... Kvaje Kage ["Moron Cakes"] being sold at Kjer’s Brød in Videbæk, Denmark as a light-hearted response to Trump's threats to invade & annex Greenland!
#Greenland #KvajeKage #MoronCakes #KjersBrød
#Greenland #KvajeKage #MoronCakes #KjersBrød
#MythologyMonday
On completion of the hunt, one of Arthur's knights "shaved off the beard of Ysbaddaden, flesh and skin to the bone, and both ears completely" before the giant is [at his own request] beheaded, Olwen then marries Culhwch ...
🎨Earnest Wallcousins
On completion of the hunt, one of Arthur's knights "shaved off the beard of Ysbaddaden, flesh and skin to the bone, and both ears completely" before the giant is [at his own request] beheaded, Olwen then marries Culhwch ...
🎨Earnest Wallcousins
January 12, 2026 at 7:38 PM
#MythologyMonday
On completion of the hunt, one of Arthur's knights "shaved off the beard of Ysbaddaden, flesh and skin to the bone, and both ears completely" before the giant is [at his own request] beheaded, Olwen then marries Culhwch ...
🎨Earnest Wallcousins
On completion of the hunt, one of Arthur's knights "shaved off the beard of Ysbaddaden, flesh and skin to the bone, and both ears completely" before the giant is [at his own request] beheaded, Olwen then marries Culhwch ...
🎨Earnest Wallcousins
#MythologyMonday
A Giant intended to smother Shrewsbury, Shropshire with a shovelful of soil: He met a Cobbler, who artfully told him all the shoes in his sack had been worn out on the long journey from the town - the disheartened Giant dropped the soil, forming the Wrekin.
🎨Robin Lawrie & Emma Hill
A Giant intended to smother Shrewsbury, Shropshire with a shovelful of soil: He met a Cobbler, who artfully told him all the shoes in his sack had been worn out on the long journey from the town - the disheartened Giant dropped the soil, forming the Wrekin.
🎨Robin Lawrie & Emma Hill
January 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
#MythologyMonday
A Giant intended to smother Shrewsbury, Shropshire with a shovelful of soil: He met a Cobbler, who artfully told him all the shoes in his sack had been worn out on the long journey from the town - the disheartened Giant dropped the soil, forming the Wrekin.
🎨Robin Lawrie & Emma Hill
A Giant intended to smother Shrewsbury, Shropshire with a shovelful of soil: He met a Cobbler, who artfully told him all the shoes in his sack had been worn out on the long journey from the town - the disheartened Giant dropped the soil, forming the Wrekin.
🎨Robin Lawrie & Emma Hill
#MythologyMonday
The Trioedd Ynys Prydein tells how the giant Idris, a skilled astronomer, liked to sit on a ridge of a mountain in southern Snowdonia and watch over the lives of ordinary people - the mountain became known as Cadair Idris [Chair of Idris]
🎨Richard Wilson
The Trioedd Ynys Prydein tells how the giant Idris, a skilled astronomer, liked to sit on a ridge of a mountain in southern Snowdonia and watch over the lives of ordinary people - the mountain became known as Cadair Idris [Chair of Idris]
🎨Richard Wilson
January 12, 2026 at 11:02 AM
#MythologyMonday
The Trioedd Ynys Prydein tells how the giant Idris, a skilled astronomer, liked to sit on a ridge of a mountain in southern Snowdonia and watch over the lives of ordinary people - the mountain became known as Cadair Idris [Chair of Idris]
🎨Richard Wilson
The Trioedd Ynys Prydein tells how the giant Idris, a skilled astronomer, liked to sit on a ridge of a mountain in southern Snowdonia and watch over the lives of ordinary people - the mountain became known as Cadair Idris [Chair of Idris]
🎨Richard Wilson
#ShakespeareSunday
"I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
And thus my battle shall be ordered:
My foreward shall be drawn out all in length
Consisting equally of horse and foot;
Our archers shall be placed in the midst."
Richard III
🎨Bellum Gallicum MS @britishlibrary.bsky.social
"I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
And thus my battle shall be ordered:
My foreward shall be drawn out all in length
Consisting equally of horse and foot;
Our archers shall be placed in the midst."
Richard III
🎨Bellum Gallicum MS @britishlibrary.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 9:42 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
"I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
And thus my battle shall be ordered:
My foreward shall be drawn out all in length
Consisting equally of horse and foot;
Our archers shall be placed in the midst."
Richard III
🎨Bellum Gallicum MS @britishlibrary.bsky.social
"I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,
And thus my battle shall be ordered:
My foreward shall be drawn out all in length
Consisting equally of horse and foot;
Our archers shall be placed in the midst."
Richard III
🎨Bellum Gallicum MS @britishlibrary.bsky.social
#ShakespeareSunday
O, when degree is shak'd,
Which is the ladder to all high designs,
Then enterprise is sick! How could communities,
Degrees in schools & brotherhoods in cities,
Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,
The primogenitive & due of birth,
Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels
O, when degree is shak'd,
Which is the ladder to all high designs,
Then enterprise is sick! How could communities,
Degrees in schools & brotherhoods in cities,
Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,
The primogenitive & due of birth,
Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels
January 11, 2026 at 8:34 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
O, when degree is shak'd,
Which is the ladder to all high designs,
Then enterprise is sick! How could communities,
Degrees in schools & brotherhoods in cities,
Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,
The primogenitive & due of birth,
Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels
O, when degree is shak'd,
Which is the ladder to all high designs,
Then enterprise is sick! How could communities,
Degrees in schools & brotherhoods in cities,
Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,
The primogenitive & due of birth,
Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels
#ShaksepeareSunday
"Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
Between this chastised kingdom and myself,
And brought in matter that should feed this fire;
And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
With that same weak wind which enkindled it ..."
King John
🎨Silver_Iris
"Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
Between this chastised kingdom and myself,
And brought in matter that should feed this fire;
And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
With that same weak wind which enkindled it ..."
King John
🎨Silver_Iris
January 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
#ShaksepeareSunday
"Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
Between this chastised kingdom and myself,
And brought in matter that should feed this fire;
And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
With that same weak wind which enkindled it ..."
King John
🎨Silver_Iris
"Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
Between this chastised kingdom and myself,
And brought in matter that should feed this fire;
And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
With that same weak wind which enkindled it ..."
King John
🎨Silver_Iris
#ShakespeareSunday
"O, full of scorpions is my mind ..."
MacBeth
🎨4irmii - Chaotic Thought [@DeviantArt]
"O, full of scorpions is my mind ..."
MacBeth
🎨4irmii - Chaotic Thought [@DeviantArt]
January 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
"O, full of scorpions is my mind ..."
MacBeth
🎨4irmii - Chaotic Thought [@DeviantArt]
"O, full of scorpions is my mind ..."
MacBeth
🎨4irmii - Chaotic Thought [@DeviantArt]
#BookWormSat
"I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.
For God’s sake look after our people."
Robert Falcon Scott
📷Herbert Ponting
"I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.
For God’s sake look after our people."
Robert Falcon Scott
📷Herbert Ponting
January 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
#BookWormSat
"I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.
For God’s sake look after our people."
Robert Falcon Scott
📷Herbert Ponting
"I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.
For God’s sake look after our people."
Robert Falcon Scott
📷Herbert Ponting
#WyrdWednesday
Well known to the people of Norwich, the wonderful lady known as Black Anna was much loved by those who frequented her pub, The Jolly Butchers. Antoinette Hannent [née Carrara] was born in Ber Street - the Italian section of 1900s Norwich, where my own grandmother was born & lived ...
Well known to the people of Norwich, the wonderful lady known as Black Anna was much loved by those who frequented her pub, The Jolly Butchers. Antoinette Hannent [née Carrara] was born in Ber Street - the Italian section of 1900s Norwich, where my own grandmother was born & lived ...
January 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
#WyrdWednesday
Well known to the people of Norwich, the wonderful lady known as Black Anna was much loved by those who frequented her pub, The Jolly Butchers. Antoinette Hannent [née Carrara] was born in Ber Street - the Italian section of 1900s Norwich, where my own grandmother was born & lived ...
Well known to the people of Norwich, the wonderful lady known as Black Anna was much loved by those who frequented her pub, The Jolly Butchers. Antoinette Hannent [née Carrara] was born in Ber Street - the Italian section of 1900s Norwich, where my own grandmother was born & lived ...
#LegendaryWednesday
After giving birth, Ceridwen threw the baby Taliesin into the ocean, wrapped in a leather bag. Found in the Afon Dyfi [Dovey] by Elfyn and Angharad, he was given a loving home and brought up as their own child.
🎨 F H Townsend & Unknown Artist
After giving birth, Ceridwen threw the baby Taliesin into the ocean, wrapped in a leather bag. Found in the Afon Dyfi [Dovey] by Elfyn and Angharad, he was given a loving home and brought up as their own child.
🎨 F H Townsend & Unknown Artist
January 7, 2026 at 5:23 PM
#LegendaryWednesday
After giving birth, Ceridwen threw the baby Taliesin into the ocean, wrapped in a leather bag. Found in the Afon Dyfi [Dovey] by Elfyn and Angharad, he was given a loving home and brought up as their own child.
🎨 F H Townsend & Unknown Artist
After giving birth, Ceridwen threw the baby Taliesin into the ocean, wrapped in a leather bag. Found in the Afon Dyfi [Dovey] by Elfyn and Angharad, he was given a loving home and brought up as their own child.
🎨 F H Townsend & Unknown Artist
With Trump threatening to grab Greenland - and Canada - the previously unimaginable prospect looms that in my lifetime we may be in armed conflict with the US ... hard to understand how we have come to a point where we are equally as threatened by a former ally as by Russia.
#TrumpAggression
#TrumpAggression
Military action in Greenland 'always an option' says White House
Military action in Greenland 'always an option' says White House
Using the military to take Greenland is "always an option" the White House says, amid mounting tension over Donald Trump's plans for the territory.
news.sky.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:44 PM
With Trump threatening to grab Greenland - and Canada - the previously unimaginable prospect looms that in my lifetime we may be in armed conflict with the US ... hard to understand how we have come to a point where we are equally as threatened by a former ally as by Russia.
#TrumpAggression
#TrumpAggression
#WyrdWednesday
18th century British Naval recruit Hannah Snell only revealed her sex when collecting her severance pay - despite once receiving 12 lashes for disobedience & being hit by 11 musket balls! Hannah later wrote a bestselling book and ran a Pub in Wapping called The Female Warrior.
18th century British Naval recruit Hannah Snell only revealed her sex when collecting her severance pay - despite once receiving 12 lashes for disobedience & being hit by 11 musket balls! Hannah later wrote a bestselling book and ran a Pub in Wapping called The Female Warrior.
January 7, 2026 at 11:04 AM
#WyrdWednesday
18th century British Naval recruit Hannah Snell only revealed her sex when collecting her severance pay - despite once receiving 12 lashes for disobedience & being hit by 11 musket balls! Hannah later wrote a bestselling book and ran a Pub in Wapping called The Female Warrior.
18th century British Naval recruit Hannah Snell only revealed her sex when collecting her severance pay - despite once receiving 12 lashes for disobedience & being hit by 11 musket balls! Hannah later wrote a bestselling book and ran a Pub in Wapping called The Female Warrior.
"He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man."
Khalil Gibran
[born #OTD - 6th Jan 1883]
Never more relevant than in today's world of dictatorial, bully-boy leaders ...
Khalil Gibran
[born #OTD - 6th Jan 1883]
Never more relevant than in today's world of dictatorial, bully-boy leaders ...
January 6, 2026 at 7:44 PM
"He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man."
Khalil Gibran
[born #OTD - 6th Jan 1883]
Never more relevant than in today's world of dictatorial, bully-boy leaders ...
Khalil Gibran
[born #OTD - 6th Jan 1883]
Never more relevant than in today's world of dictatorial, bully-boy leaders ...
#MythologyMonday
Living on a remote island of darkness, the Graeae sisters, were guardians of their other sisters the Gorgons. The one eye that the Graeae shared between them gave them preternatural knowledge ...
🎨Christian Schwager & Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound [791 ff]
Living on a remote island of darkness, the Graeae sisters, were guardians of their other sisters the Gorgons. The one eye that the Graeae shared between them gave them preternatural knowledge ...
🎨Christian Schwager & Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound [791 ff]
January 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
#MythologyMonday
Living on a remote island of darkness, the Graeae sisters, were guardians of their other sisters the Gorgons. The one eye that the Graeae shared between them gave them preternatural knowledge ...
🎨Christian Schwager & Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound [791 ff]
Living on a remote island of darkness, the Graeae sisters, were guardians of their other sisters the Gorgons. The one eye that the Graeae shared between them gave them preternatural knowledge ...
🎨Christian Schwager & Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound [791 ff]
#MythologyMonday
Tasked by sorceress Ceridwen to keep a magical cauldron boiling for a year and a day, blind Morda and Gwion Bach accidentally cause Gwion to taste the potion - setting in motion the events that lead to Taliesin's birth ...
🎨Katherine Sutherland
Tasked by sorceress Ceridwen to keep a magical cauldron boiling for a year and a day, blind Morda and Gwion Bach accidentally cause Gwion to taste the potion - setting in motion the events that lead to Taliesin's birth ...
🎨Katherine Sutherland
January 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
#MythologyMonday
Tasked by sorceress Ceridwen to keep a magical cauldron boiling for a year and a day, blind Morda and Gwion Bach accidentally cause Gwion to taste the potion - setting in motion the events that lead to Taliesin's birth ...
🎨Katherine Sutherland
Tasked by sorceress Ceridwen to keep a magical cauldron boiling for a year and a day, blind Morda and Gwion Bach accidentally cause Gwion to taste the potion - setting in motion the events that lead to Taliesin's birth ...
🎨Katherine Sutherland