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Ellenyork
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Public policy, history, reading, dancing, mountains and cake. Emeritus professor, University of York. Chair,York Archaeology.
The beautifully scented Gabriel Oak and the prolific Scarborough Fair, both from
David Austin and doing well this summer 🌱
June 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A lovely Spring day out in North Yorkshire: blossom at Helmsley Walled
Garden and pick- your - own tulips from The Flower Belt. 🌱
April 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Such fresh and delicate petals on this beautiful snowflake plant: a lovely sign of Spring 🌱
March 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow blossoms.
Henry VIII Act 3 Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday #Spring 🌱
March 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Peach blossom, tulips and other signs of #Spring at Beningbrough @nationaltrust.bsky.social 🌱
March 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Hellebore Double Ellen brightening up a grey day 🌱 #spring
March 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou
and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it
would be argument for a week, laughter for a month
and a good jest for ever.
Henry IV Part I Act 2 Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday #hollowcrownfans
January 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Give me a calendar.
Who saw the sun to-day?
Richard III Act 5 Scene 3
#ShakespeareSunday @yorkminster.bsky.social
January 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Look in the calendar, and bring me word.
Julius Caesar Act 2 Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
January 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Fragrant viburnum - such an uplifting scent at this time of year 🌱 #fridayflowers
January 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
… and birds sit brooding in the snow.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Act 5 Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday
Monet: The Magpie
December 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Sonnet 73
#ShakespeareSunday
St Mary’s Abbey #York
December 29, 2024 at 10:57 AM
A goodly house: the feast smells well.
Coriolanus A4 Scene 5
#ShakespeareSunday #Christmas
December 15, 2024 at 9:53 AM
To-morrow is the joyful day.
As You Like It Act 5 Scene 3
#ShakespeareSunday #Christmas

Image: Viggo Johansen: Merry Christmas (1891)
December 15, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France.
Hamlet
#ShakespeareSunday #NotreDameCathedral
December 8, 2024 at 9:24 AM
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire with good old folks and let them tell thee tales.
Richard II Act 5 Scene I
#ShakespeareSunday
December 8, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow.
Sonnet 90
#ShakespeareSunday #StormDarragh
December 8, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Blue circles stream'd; like rainbows in the sky: these water-galls in her dim element foretell new storms to those already spent.
#ShakespeareSunday
Rape of Lucrece
December 8, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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Today's image for ArtAdventCalendar!

Ohtsu Kazuyuki, 'Sudden Snow'
December 2, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief?
That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
Midsummer Night's Dream
#ShakespeareSunday
a snowman is holding a torch in his mouth .
ALT: a snowman is holding a torch in his mouth .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:20 AM
And birds sit brooding in the snow …
Love’s Labour’s Lost Act 5 Scene 2

#ShakespeareSunday
December 1, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets,
The barks of trees thou browsed'st.
Antony and Cleopatra Act 1 Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday
December 1, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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I just leave this here.....
November 27, 2024 at 12:18 PM
So sweet a bar should sunder such sweet friends.
Merchant of Venice Act 3 Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday
November 24, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Honey, and milk, and sugar; there is three.
Love’s Labour’s Lost Act 5 Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday
November 24, 2024 at 12:01 PM