Tamsin Wilson
@tamsinwilson.bsky.social
She paints, she draws, she rarely talks about herself in the third person. Stone botherer. Oil painter. No AI. No DMs.
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Wassail WIP - Green man jacket 26/01/24. Drawings of common leaves from England & Jamaica on fabric patches.
Here's to thee, old apple tree,
That blooms well, bears well.
Let's have hat fulls, and cap fulls,
And three bushel bag fulls,
And little heaps of apples under the stair.
Was hail!!
Here's to thee, old apple tree,
That blooms well, bears well.
Let's have hat fulls, and cap fulls,
And three bushel bag fulls,
And little heaps of apples under the stair.
Was hail!!
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Here's an example of a #chiphenge, this one by food artist Prudence Stait who has also made a chips White Cliffs and a chips Angel of the North among other things, viewable at the link.
#Stonehenge
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
#Stonehenge
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Here's an example of a #chiphenge, this one by food artist Prudence Stait who has also made a chips White Cliffs and a chips Angel of the North among other things, viewable at the link.
#Stonehenge
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
#Stonehenge
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
No I definitely don't get overly emotional about inanimate objects... *cries all morning about car I've had forever finally being too fucked to fix*
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
No I definitely don't get overly emotional about inanimate objects... *cries all morning about car I've had forever finally being too fucked to fix*
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According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, there is a saying that you can predict the number of snow storms based on the date of the first snowfall.
So here in Newcastle, we had snow on the 19th, meaning 19 more snowstorms before the end of winter!
So here in Newcastle, we had snow on the 19th, meaning 19 more snowstorms before the end of winter!
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, there is a saying that you can predict the number of snow storms based on the date of the first snowfall.
So here in Newcastle, we had snow on the 19th, meaning 19 more snowstorms before the end of winter!
So here in Newcastle, we had snow on the 19th, meaning 19 more snowstorms before the end of winter!
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Neighbours… another Applecross sketch
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Neighbours… another Applecross sketch
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I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Spent ages cleaning everything yesterday. Now it's tidy and clean of course I'm procrastinating what I should be doing by sorting through stuff to throw out. I definitely didn't need to do this today. The room is an almighty mess again.
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Spent ages cleaning everything yesterday. Now it's tidy and clean of course I'm procrastinating what I should be doing by sorting through stuff to throw out. I definitely didn't need to do this today. The room is an almighty mess again.
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The Nine Lives Causway and Eel Marsh House from The Woman in Black. Unpublished illustration.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The Nine Lives Causway and Eel Marsh House from The Woman in Black. Unpublished illustration.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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“Who is it who is coming over here, getting all the benefits?”
— Dogwhistle And I’ll Come For You, My Lad
— Dogwhistle And I’ll Come For You, My Lad
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“Who is it who is coming over here, getting all the benefits?”
— Dogwhistle And I’ll Come For You, My Lad
— Dogwhistle And I’ll Come For You, My Lad
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The fabulous skeleton of St. Pancratius in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Wil, Switzerland. He is a catacomb saints - skeletons exhumed in Rome and sent across the Alps to replace those destroyed during the Reformation. They typically ended up elaborately dressed and bejewelled
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The fabulous skeleton of St. Pancratius in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Wil, Switzerland. He is a catacomb saints - skeletons exhumed in Rome and sent across the Alps to replace those destroyed during the Reformation. They typically ended up elaborately dressed and bejewelled
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In fact you don't even need a priest - deacons can make holy water too. And you can bypass even that requirement by getting holy water from a shrine such as the well at Walsingham or St Winefrid's Well; some churches even have a whole cistern of holy water you can fill up from, too
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In fact you don't even need a priest - deacons can make holy water too. And you can bypass even that requirement by getting holy water from a shrine such as the well at Walsingham or St Winefrid's Well; some churches even have a whole cistern of holy water you can fill up from, too
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The use of AI for things like theoretical "public art" is so interesting, because it shows that there are a lot of people that don't understand what art is for, or indeed the concept of the beautiful. AI cannot produce art because it has no consciouness, no soul, so it can't produce the beautiful.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The use of AI for things like theoretical "public art" is so interesting, because it shows that there are a lot of people that don't understand what art is for, or indeed the concept of the beautiful. AI cannot produce art because it has no consciouness, no soul, so it can't produce the beautiful.
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For this week's offering for #TombTuesday here is the joint tomb of Sir John Fitzherbert and his wife dated to the first quarter of the 15th century. St Mary and St Barlok, Norbury. #Derbyshire
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
For this week's offering for #TombTuesday here is the joint tomb of Sir John Fitzherbert and his wife dated to the first quarter of the 15th century. St Mary and St Barlok, Norbury. #Derbyshire
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People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
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“Take your shoes off and throw them in the lake.” That’s easy for Kate Bush to say. She’s probably got loads of shoes and much easier access to her nearest lake than I have.
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“Take your shoes off and throw them in the lake.” That’s easy for Kate Bush to say. She’s probably got loads of shoes and much easier access to her nearest lake than I have.
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The dinky chambered tomb of Maen y Bardd, 'The Poet's Stone', that stands beside the southernmost of two east-west (or west-east) prehistoric tracks through the #Conwy mountains of North #Wales. #Legend had it anyone sleeping in the cromlech would wake up either a poet or mad.
#TombTuesday #folklore
#TombTuesday #folklore
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The dinky chambered tomb of Maen y Bardd, 'The Poet's Stone', that stands beside the southernmost of two east-west (or west-east) prehistoric tracks through the #Conwy mountains of North #Wales. #Legend had it anyone sleeping in the cromlech would wake up either a poet or mad.
#TombTuesday #folklore
#TombTuesday #folklore
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#FolkTaleWeek has encouraged me to go back through to the dim distant past of my feed and find one or two that perhaps deserve a repost.
An illustration by Scott John Batten of an episode from the Scottish ballad 'Tam-Lin' in which his true love Janet, here at their first meeting, must rescue him from the Queen Of The Fairies.
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairy #fairies #faery #fairylore #folklore #legend #fairies #ScottishBorders #FolkTales
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairy #fairies #faery #fairylore #folklore #legend #fairies #ScottishBorders #FolkTales
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#FolkTaleWeek has encouraged me to go back through to the dim distant past of my feed and find one or two that perhaps deserve a repost.
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An old cartoon which we've recently put back up on our website because it *feels* like the right time to do so i don't know why
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
An old cartoon which we've recently put back up on our website because it *feels* like the right time to do so i don't know why
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
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Happy #TombTuesday everyone! 🥳
The delightful Neolithic tomb at Cors y Gedol, Merionydd, which survives right at the edge of a busy Iron Age & Romano-British farming settlement in north Wales
Pretty accessible too - a short walk from a small car park via a country lane 👌
📷 My own 2024
The delightful Neolithic tomb at Cors y Gedol, Merionydd, which survives right at the edge of a busy Iron Age & Romano-British farming settlement in north Wales
Pretty accessible too - a short walk from a small car park via a country lane 👌
📷 My own 2024
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Happy #TombTuesday everyone! 🥳
The delightful Neolithic tomb at Cors y Gedol, Merionydd, which survives right at the edge of a busy Iron Age & Romano-British farming settlement in north Wales
Pretty accessible too - a short walk from a small car park via a country lane 👌
📷 My own 2024
The delightful Neolithic tomb at Cors y Gedol, Merionydd, which survives right at the edge of a busy Iron Age & Romano-British farming settlement in north Wales
Pretty accessible too - a short walk from a small car park via a country lane 👌
📷 My own 2024
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Two 10th century hogback tombs - Part of the wonderful collection of early medieval sculpture at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. Hogbacks are generally considered as grave markers or stylised 'houses' for the dead. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #TheGovanStones #GovanHeritageTrust
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Two 10th century hogback tombs - Part of the wonderful collection of early medieval sculpture at Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. Hogbacks are generally considered as grave markers or stylised 'houses' for the dead. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #TheGovanStones #GovanHeritageTrust
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Cut some capers, man..!
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Cut some capers, man..!
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
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THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
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Trapped within a tomb of stone as millennia passed by, the spirit of those former days stares out upon today.
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Trapped within a tomb of stone as millennia passed by, the spirit of those former days stares out upon today.
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“...an underlying unsettledness to country idylls, of something having gone wrong and rotten amongst the hills, valleys and sleepy local streets of this green and pleasant land.”
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/the-midwich-...
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/the-midwich-...
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
“...an underlying unsettledness to country idylls, of something having gone wrong and rotten amongst the hills, valleys and sleepy local streets of this green and pleasant land.”
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/the-midwich-...
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/the-midwich-...