Kim M Barrett
@kmbarrett.bsky.social
Raised by library books and the weird BBC TV shows beamed (probably by accident) to rural Australia in the 1970s.
Nature, regeneration, art, words, high strangeness.
I paint small pictures in oils.
Profile illustrations: Charles Tunnicliffe
Nature, regeneration, art, words, high strangeness.
I paint small pictures in oils.
Profile illustrations: Charles Tunnicliffe
Pinned
Kim M Barrett
@kmbarrett.bsky.social
· Nov 15
..... I’m out to find that village,
Its low sills fragrant
With ladysmock and celandine,
Marshlights in the summer dark.
Seamus Heaney
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People ask why I followed The Hum wanting trite answers about a disaffected youth looking for direction. Walking The Hum pylon-to-pylon gave me spiritual direction, but no-one wants to hear about my devotional relationship to the land's electric leys. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
People ask why I followed The Hum wanting trite answers about a disaffected youth looking for direction. Walking The Hum pylon-to-pylon gave me spiritual direction, but no-one wants to hear about my devotional relationship to the land's electric leys. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
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When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
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Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
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I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
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I hope you find what you're looking for.
I also hope you someday own a haunted cottage that floats through mossy forests under starlit skies, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.
I also hope you someday own a haunted cottage that floats through mossy forests under starlit skies, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I hope you find what you're looking for.
I also hope you someday own a haunted cottage that floats through mossy forests under starlit skies, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.
I also hope you someday own a haunted cottage that floats through mossy forests under starlit skies, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.
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Those talking openly about witchery often focus on the active aspects – possibly because they like telling people what to do. There's a neglect of passive enchantments, those parts of witchery where we listen, where we commune with the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Those talking openly about witchery often focus on the active aspects – possibly because they like telling people what to do. There's a neglect of passive enchantments, those parts of witchery where we listen, where we commune with the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails”
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
September 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails”
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
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“The starlings in this picture are at the halfway stage between their juvenile and adult plumage”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
‘What to Look for in Autumn’ (1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
‘What to Look for in Autumn’ (1960)
September 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
“The starlings in this picture are at the halfway stage between their juvenile and adult plumage”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
‘What to Look for in Autumn’ (1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
‘What to Look for in Autumn’ (1960)
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Other work of the Ladybird artists. Shell Guide, 1955.
‘August’
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
‘August’
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
August 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Other work of the Ladybird artists. Shell Guide, 1955.
‘August’
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
‘August’
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
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The green-haloed grave guardians of Ashcourt Necropolis wear their feral finery with studied boredom. They sigh in slow seasons, think in years. Mute moirologists whose professional grief lasts until the weather breaks their limbs, erases their expressions of loss. – #DAKilroy, 1982
August 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The green-haloed grave guardians of Ashcourt Necropolis wear their feral finery with studied boredom. They sigh in slow seasons, think in years. Mute moirologists whose professional grief lasts until the weather breaks their limbs, erases their expressions of loss. – #DAKilroy, 1982
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A junk shop roll of found photos so old the text from the backing paper has etched in over the years. Kodacolor II was made from 1973 to the early 80s and the clothes/space-age garden furniture seem to say 70s. Transmissions from a lost world.
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A junk shop roll of found photos so old the text from the backing paper has etched in over the years. Kodacolor II was made from 1973 to the early 80s and the clothes/space-age garden furniture seem to say 70s. Transmissions from a lost world.
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@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social and I were delighted by the response to our new W.G. Sebald film. Thanks to everyone who responded/contacted us. (We have a film about the Fens in the pipeline.)
youtu.be/hELnfok0BzI?...
youtu.be/hELnfok0BzI?...
Around the Rings of Saturn
YouTube video by Cameron Self
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August 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social and I were delighted by the response to our new W.G. Sebald film. Thanks to everyone who responded/contacted us. (We have a film about the Fens in the pipeline.)
youtu.be/hELnfok0BzI?...
youtu.be/hELnfok0BzI?...
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Among my favourite Hookland dialect words is widkerwep - the sadness one feels at coming to the end of wood and seeing the last section of a path leading out of it. Hooklanders also use widkerwep to mean the taking of a needed action that brings a sense of loss. - #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WOTD
June 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Among my favourite Hookland dialect words is widkerwep - the sadness one feels at coming to the end of wood and seeing the last section of a path leading out of it. Hooklanders also use widkerwep to mean the taking of a needed action that brings a sense of loss. - #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WOTD
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June 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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For while there is a language of flowers, it is in the meadow that it becomes poetry. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Flowers
June 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
For while there is a language of flowers, it is in the meadow that it becomes poetry. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Flowers
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I carved and printed an impression of the Maryworth Sea Serpent a few years ago after reading some of the reports. From afar she looks ever so beautiful 🖤
June 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I carved and printed an impression of the Maryworth Sea Serpent a few years ago after reading some of the reports. From afar she looks ever so beautiful 🖤
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In 1966, signalman Ray Wise observes a giant green pyramid, hovering above the London-Ashcourt railway lines. Subsequent investigation shows the surrounding area, including the signal box, had been subject to intense heat. #HOTD (Hookland On This Day)
June 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
In 1966, signalman Ray Wise observes a giant green pyramid, hovering above the London-Ashcourt railway lines. Subsequent investigation shows the surrounding area, including the signal box, had been subject to intense heat. #HOTD (Hookland On This Day)
".. the call of the curlew, a song just west of grief.." Country diary: Who’s to say there’s nothing supernatural about a storm? | Paul Evans www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: Who’s to say there’s nothing supernatural about a storm? | Paul Evans
The Marches, Shropshire: The thunder over the hill is spectacular, reverberating in everything below it
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
".. the call of the curlew, a song just west of grief.." Country diary: Who’s to say there’s nothing supernatural about a storm? | Paul Evans www.theguardian.com/environment/...
the land that gives wort and bane
The witch walks ways of hawthorn. The witch walks ways of hemlock. She has no fear of the maples in the hedge despite the claims of folklore. Her footsteps are acts of ritual agency and intent. Her routes always taking her into a deeper relationship with the land. #£milyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
May 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
the land that gives wort and bane
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New episode!
Written, hosted, edited, and produced by @kenlayne.bsky.social
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Written, hosted, edited, and produced by @kenlayne.bsky.social
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The Mad Bomber of Twentynine Palms
Podcast Episode · Desert Oracle Radio · 05/19/2025 · 28m
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May 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
New episode!
Written, hosted, edited, and produced by @kenlayne.bsky.social
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Written, hosted, edited, and produced by @kenlayne.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Some say it's hard to be an urban witch. I disagree. I walk outside and the puddle on the pavement is my scrying mirror. I collect omens from the trash in the gutter. I guerrilla garden so I'm not confined by walls. Foxes bring me gossip. Streets sing me their secret names.– #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky
April 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Some say it's hard to be an urban witch. I disagree. I walk outside and the puddle on the pavement is my scrying mirror. I collect omens from the trash in the gutter. I guerrilla garden so I'm not confined by walls. Foxes bring me gossip. Streets sing me their secret names.– #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky
The lithophone strikes me as a peak #Hookland instrument @hookland.bsky.social
Some beauty .. (sound on..)
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Archaeologist Dr. Jean-Loup Ringot specialized in prehistoric music demonstrates a Lithophone.
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Archaeologist Dr. Jean-Loup Ringot specialized in prehistoric music demonstrates a Lithophone.
April 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The lithophone strikes me as a peak #Hookland instrument @hookland.bsky.social