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Random views myne owne. Canadian. Seeker of #Hiraeth. Mother of a resting Cello-wing Daughter. A latter-day OOwl fancier (with a good dose of Wren-fancying too). MA in Folklore Studies. #KDrama Addict. Learning 中文. Spins woolly yarns & story threads
Pinned
Fading into the dreaming times .......
looking up at a full moon surrounded by trees at night
Alt: looking up at a full moon surrounded by trees at night
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November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Fading into the dreaming times .......
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A mysterious visitor on the roof
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
A mysterious visitor on the roof
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"No pairing of hill and lake in Lakeland have a closer partnership than these [Mellbreak and Crummock Water]" ~ Alfred Wainwright
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"No pairing of hill and lake in Lakeland have a closer partnership than these [Mellbreak and Crummock Water]" ~ Alfred Wainwright
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I've signed this cross party letter with many other politicians and leaders across civil society.
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I've signed this cross party letter with many other politicians and leaders across civil society.
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
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I was attracted by the mixture of leaves and foam spinning in the pool, so I put on the ND filter and took couple of long exposures. There was no wind at all and the atmosphere was completed by the thick fog 🤩
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I was attracted by the mixture of leaves and foam spinning in the pool, so I put on the ND filter and took couple of long exposures. There was no wind at all and the atmosphere was completed by the thick fog 🤩
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November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Another beautiful leaf at the tail end of a beautiful Fall in Portland, Oregon - everyone’s favorite he’ll hole. #Photography #Flora #WashingtonPark #Portland 📷🐸💕
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Another beautiful leaf at the tail end of a beautiful Fall in Portland, Oregon - everyone’s favorite he’ll hole. #Photography #Flora #WashingtonPark #Portland 📷🐸💕
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Now this is a gift book for the season 🙌✨ #Folklore #BookologyThursday
That feeling when your new book has just come out but then you have to change your email signature & all the banners on your socials & website from pre-order to OUT NOW and you're still a bit fragile from all the celebrations🎉 #HouseholdLore #Booksky #BookologyThursday #FolkloreThursday #WritersLife
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Now this is a gift book for the season 🙌✨ #Folklore #BookologyThursday
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The first class in my new series of workshops is tonight in Norfolk, Massachusetts! Come learn all about tea blending and create a blend of your very own to take home. More info here! www.muddyriverherbals.com/events
I'm debuting a brand new series of classes devoted to "easing into winter with herbs" & the first workshop is this Thursday! Join me to learn all about the art of tea blending. Learn more—and read up on my other offerings—here!
www.muddyriverherbals.com/events
www.muddyriverherbals.com/events
events — muddy river herbals
www.muddyriverherbals.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The first class in my new series of workshops is tonight in Norfolk, Massachusetts! Come learn all about tea blending and create a blend of your very own to take home. More info here! www.muddyriverherbals.com/events
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She is desperate here, a peevish self-will’d harlotry,
One that no persuasion can do good upon.
One that no persuasion can do good upon.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
She is desperate here, a peevish self-will’d harlotry,
One that no persuasion can do good upon.
One that no persuasion can do good upon.
Battledore and shuttlecock or jeu de volant was an earlier version of badminton. Played with two rackets and a shuttlecock, the object was for the players to hit the shuttlecock towards each other without letting it fall to the ground. #FolkloreThursday
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Battledore and shuttlecock or jeu de volant was an earlier version of badminton. Played with two rackets and a shuttlecock, the object was for the players to hit the shuttlecock towards each other without letting it fall to the ground. #FolkloreThursday
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Thrift stores in northern #Ontario say more people dropping off their trash at their doorsteps
Sudbury thrift store reports increase in trash coincided with city implementing a $5 gate fee at the landfill
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sudbury thrift store reports increase in trash coincided with city implementing a $5 gate fee at the landfill
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Thrift stores in northern Ontario say more people dropping off their trash at their doorsteps | CBC News
Thrift stores in northeastern Ontario say they are getting trash delivered to their doorsteps after hours.
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Thrift stores in northern #Ontario say more people dropping off their trash at their doorsteps
Sudbury thrift store reports increase in trash coincided with city implementing a $5 gate fee at the landfill
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sudbury thrift store reports increase in trash coincided with city implementing a $5 gate fee at the landfill
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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11 ancient board games #Folklore x.com/selinesigil9...
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11 Ancient board games :) #folklorethursday https://t.co/6sQzmjY6Xn https://t.co/TA1kM3O3yo
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November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
11 ancient board games #Folklore x.com/selinesigil9...
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#FolkloreThursday
Eccles Wakes: Racing for the Smock, Joseph Parry, 1808
Held on the 1st Sunday in September for 3 days, with "ancient and modern sports," and feasting on Eccles cakes, this painting shows men racing on donkeys to win the smock held aloft at the right.
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Eccles Wakes: Racing for the Smock, Joseph Parry, 1808
Held on the 1st Sunday in September for 3 days, with "ancient and modern sports," and feasting on Eccles cakes, this painting shows men racing on donkeys to win the smock held aloft at the right.
artuk.org/discover/art...
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#FolkloreThursday
Eccles Wakes: Racing for the Smock, Joseph Parry, 1808
Held on the 1st Sunday in September for 3 days, with "ancient and modern sports," and feasting on Eccles cakes, this painting shows men racing on donkeys to win the smock held aloft at the right.
artuk.org/discover/art...
Eccles Wakes: Racing for the Smock, Joseph Parry, 1808
Held on the 1st Sunday in September for 3 days, with "ancient and modern sports," and feasting on Eccles cakes, this painting shows men racing on donkeys to win the smock held aloft at the right.
artuk.org/discover/art...
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In 1283, Alphonso X of Castile commissioned the Libro de los Juegos (Book of Games); a treatise on the games of chess, dice and tables (early backgammon) based on Arabic works. Regarded as "the greatest source of information on board games ever compiled during the Middle Ages." #FolkloreThursday
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In 1283, Alphonso X of Castile commissioned the Libro de los Juegos (Book of Games); a treatise on the games of chess, dice and tables (early backgammon) based on Arabic works. Regarded as "the greatest source of information on board games ever compiled during the Middle Ages." #FolkloreThursday
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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West Country Tales was a supernatural drama series based on real-life experiences sent in after a BBC appeal. Many #folklore elements here! Not all episodes are on YouTube unfortunately
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#folklorethursday
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#folklorethursday
WEST COUNTRY TALES(BBC;1982-83) - YouTube
Most Complete on YouTube,In-Order. Missing: S1E1"The Sabbatical" S2E3 "Tell It to the Marines" S2E5 "Sarah" S2E6 "The Little Bounder" S2E7 "The Healer" West ...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
West Country Tales was a supernatural drama series based on real-life experiences sent in after a BBC appeal. Many #folklore elements here! Not all episodes are on YouTube unfortunately
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#folklorethursday
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#folklorethursday
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The Irish wake calls for games and shenanigans #Folklore www.irishcentral.com/roots/tradit...
Traditional Irish wakes called for drinks, pranks, games, and songs
The Irish have historically put their own spin on the practice of wakes and grieving the dead. Drinks, games, and songs all played a role in traditional Irish wakes.
www.irishcentral.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Irish wake calls for games and shenanigans #Folklore www.irishcentral.com/roots/tradit...
The medieval board game of Jeu de Dames is one of strategy (in Eng k/as checkers or draughts). The goal is to win by capturing the pieces or tokens played. In renaissance art, the game was depicted as a love motif as women and men play against each other.
#FolkloreThursday🎨 Max Silbert (1930)
#FolkloreThursday🎨 Max Silbert (1930)
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The medieval board game of Jeu de Dames is one of strategy (in Eng k/as checkers or draughts). The goal is to win by capturing the pieces or tokens played. In renaissance art, the game was depicted as a love motif as women and men play against each other.
#FolkloreThursday🎨 Max Silbert (1930)
#FolkloreThursday🎨 Max Silbert (1930)
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Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai was a Japanese storytelling game popular during the Edo period. These gatherings were held on summer nights and to begin 100 candles or lamps were lit. Participants then took turns to tell 100 ghost stories (kaidan). After each story, a candle was...
#MythologyMonday
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#MythologyMonday
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November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
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What Is the Luckiest Day to Move House? Plus, 6 Other New Home Superstitions to Make Sure You Start on the Right Foot #Folklore
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What Is the Luckiest Day to Move House? Plus, 6 Other New Home Superstitions to Make Sure You Start on the Right Foot
If you're superstitious, these are the things to do, and not do, when moving home
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November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
What Is the Luckiest Day to Move House? Plus, 6 Other New Home Superstitions to Make Sure You Start on the Right Foot #Folklore
www.livingetc.com/advice/best-...
www.livingetc.com/advice/best-...
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The origins of the roulette wheel and the concept of Lady Luck can be traced back to the goddess Fortuna, randomly turning her Wheel of Fortune and changing the fates of those upon it... #FolkloreThursday
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The origins of the roulette wheel and the concept of Lady Luck can be traced back to the goddess Fortuna, randomly turning her Wheel of Fortune and changing the fates of those upon it... #FolkloreThursday