Rosalind Ahmed
@21rosa.bsky.social
Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
ER pillar box at Plumgarths, near Kendal #Cumbria this afternoon #PostBoxSaturday
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
ER pillar box at Plumgarths, near Kendal #Cumbria this afternoon #PostBoxSaturday
"the day newly painted in white and blue- the green so green in the hedges, and the white & purple so pure in the flowers- all seem to be meant for eyes that know nothing of Time"
'One Green Field' Edward Thomas
🎨 'Summer Grasses & Barley on the Clifftop' Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley #BookwormSat
'One Green Field' Edward Thomas
🎨 'Summer Grasses & Barley on the Clifftop' Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley #BookwormSat
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"the day newly painted in white and blue- the green so green in the hedges, and the white & purple so pure in the flowers- all seem to be meant for eyes that know nothing of Time"
'One Green Field' Edward Thomas
🎨 'Summer Grasses & Barley on the Clifftop' Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley #BookwormSat
'One Green Field' Edward Thomas
🎨 'Summer Grasses & Barley on the Clifftop' Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley #BookwormSat
November Night
"Listen …
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall"
Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1915 ), inventor of the cinquain: a 22 syllable, 5 line poem
🎨 November
Benjamin Haughton (1865–1924)
#BookWormSat
"Listen …
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall"
Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1915 ), inventor of the cinquain: a 22 syllable, 5 line poem
🎨 November
Benjamin Haughton (1865–1924)
#BookWormSat
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
November Night
"Listen …
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall"
Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1915 ), inventor of the cinquain: a 22 syllable, 5 line poem
🎨 November
Benjamin Haughton (1865–1924)
#BookWormSat
"Listen …
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall"
Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1915 ), inventor of the cinquain: a 22 syllable, 5 line poem
🎨 November
Benjamin Haughton (1865–1924)
#BookWormSat
Bronze, russet, green, yellow ... November's palette. Often seen as a desaturated time, there is still colour to be seen, just as there is activity under the soil during this seemingly dormant month #ForestFriday
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Bronze, russet, green, yellow ... November's palette. Often seen as a desaturated time, there is still colour to be seen, just as there is activity under the soil during this seemingly dormant month #ForestFriday
"Wol ye here a wonder thynge Betwyxt a mayd & the fovle fende?" So begins a medieval battle of wits between a young woman & the devil. Every riddle he sets "What ys hyer than ys [the] tre?" She answers "Hewene ys heyer than ys the tre" Her moral strength & sagacity deliver her from evil #FolkyFriday
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Wol ye here a wonder thynge Betwyxt a mayd & the fovle fende?" So begins a medieval battle of wits between a young woman & the devil. Every riddle he sets "What ys hyer than ys [the] tre?" She answers "Hewene ys heyer than ys the tre" Her moral strength & sagacity deliver her from evil #FolkyFriday
Smooth sow thistle about to unfurl in November. Often overlooked, or underrated as a pesky weed, its leaves can be used in salads or cooked alongside the stem in stews. This plant was thriving by a busy roadside, its colours resembling a sweet! #Fridayflowers #FlowersonFriday #Bloomscrolling
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Smooth sow thistle about to unfurl in November. Often overlooked, or underrated as a pesky weed, its leaves can be used in salads or cooked alongside the stem in stews. This plant was thriving by a busy roadside, its colours resembling a sweet! #Fridayflowers #FlowersonFriday #Bloomscrolling
Sir John de Widderington was known as a just lord, but even a good man can make a bad error when troubles pile up. He rode from Barrasford to York to meet Wolsey, & together tackle reivers' lawlessness. And that's when he remembered he had the key to his castle dungeon in his pocket #PhantomsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Sir John de Widderington was known as a just lord, but even a good man can make a bad error when troubles pile up. He rode from Barrasford to York to meet Wolsey, & together tackle reivers' lawlessness. And that's when he remembered he had the key to his castle dungeon in his pocket #PhantomsFriday
"'I have not yet breakfasted'.
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence".
"Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest"
P.G. Wodehouse
#BookologyThursday
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence".
"Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest"
P.G. Wodehouse
#BookologyThursday
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"'I have not yet breakfasted'.
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence".
"Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest"
P.G. Wodehouse
#BookologyThursday
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence".
"Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest"
P.G. Wodehouse
#BookologyThursday
It's #AdoorableThursday so why's he looking so fed up?
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It's #AdoorableThursday so why's he looking so fed up?
"he forth from the closet brought a heap of candied apple, quince & plum & gourd; With jellies soother than the creamy curd, & lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; Manna & dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez; & spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon" #BookologyThursday
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"he forth from the closet brought a heap of candied apple, quince & plum & gourd; With jellies soother than the creamy curd, & lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; Manna & dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez; & spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon" #BookologyThursday
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
"I'm trying to get beyond the world of appearances to something more absolute". Using a monochrome palette, artist Alan Reynolds went under the surface of the landscape and into its soil, evoking what he experienced as the spirit of place #WyrdWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"I'm trying to get beyond the world of appearances to something more absolute". Using a monochrome palette, artist Alan Reynolds went under the surface of the landscape and into its soil, evoking what he experienced as the spirit of place #WyrdWednesday
'Seven for a secret' ... Magpies have an ambivalent role in folklore, their plumage a combination of darkness and light. They are trickster figures and those who encounter a flash of their feathers never know which aspect is for them, sorrow or joy: perhaps both #WyrdWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
'Seven for a secret' ... Magpies have an ambivalent role in folklore, their plumage a combination of darkness and light. They are trickster figures and those who encounter a flash of their feathers never know which aspect is for them, sorrow or joy: perhaps both #WyrdWednesday
Late #autumn in the phenological calendar so there is still a tinge of colour and further leaf fall to come #ThickTrunkTuesday
#tree
#tree
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Late #autumn in the phenological calendar so there is still a tinge of colour and further leaf fall to come #ThickTrunkTuesday
#tree
#tree
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A #WinterNine - mullein, smooth sow thistle, red campion, mallow
Plus - white dead nettle, ivy, yarrow, feverfew, groundsel.
Only one short 😖 🌺
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Plus - white dead nettle, ivy, yarrow, feverfew, groundsel.
Only one short 😖 🌺
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A #WinterNine - mullein, smooth sow thistle, red campion, mallow
Plus - white dead nettle, ivy, yarrow, feverfew, groundsel.
Only one short 😖 🌺
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Plus - white dead nettle, ivy, yarrow, feverfew, groundsel.
Only one short 😖 🌺
#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
#BlueSkyArtShow the #bright explosion of fireworks on Bonfire Night earlier this month
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#BlueSkyArtShow the #bright explosion of fireworks on Bonfire Night earlier this month
Red row on #PostboxSaturday Brighton
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Red row on #PostboxSaturday Brighton
"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
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
#FingerpostFriday pointing the way to Housesteads Roman fort
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#FingerpostFriday pointing the way to Housesteads Roman fort
A beautiful haiku by @hermiteveryday.bsky.social
And I noticed these, almost translucent, red and bronze leaves upon woodland ground earlier this week #ForestFriday #autumn
And I noticed these, almost translucent, red and bronze leaves upon woodland ground earlier this week #ForestFriday #autumn
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A beautiful haiku by @hermiteveryday.bsky.social
And I noticed these, almost translucent, red and bronze leaves upon woodland ground earlier this week #ForestFriday #autumn
And I noticed these, almost translucent, red and bronze leaves upon woodland ground earlier this week #ForestFriday #autumn
#FolkyFriday hibernation might sound cosy, but not so much for Adam de la Roche, lord of Roch Castle. A witch foretold his death by adder bite within the year. For 11 moons he cowered in his castle, until one grave cold night he sent a servant out for firewood to heat his chamber 🧵1/2
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#FolkyFriday hibernation might sound cosy, but not so much for Adam de la Roche, lord of Roch Castle. A witch foretold his death by adder bite within the year. For 11 moons he cowered in his castle, until one grave cold night he sent a servant out for firewood to heat his chamber 🧵1/2
An 18th century murderer was executed in Newcastle, then his corpse chained high on Winter's Gibbet in remote Redesdale. It rattled & decayed on the windswept moors for years, until even its clothes rotted away. The gibbet was dismantled but the ghost is still seen hanging around #PhantomsFriday
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
An 18th century murderer was executed in Newcastle, then his corpse chained high on Winter's Gibbet in remote Redesdale. It rattled & decayed on the windswept moors for years, until even its clothes rotted away. The gibbet was dismantled but the ghost is still seen hanging around #PhantomsFriday