Joy Parry
@joy13.bsky.social
"Some stranger, somewhere, still remembers you because you were kind to them when no one else was."
Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.
Lover of books, history, mythology, family history research, music & films. Mother of adult children - and a dog.
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
William Blake
🎨Jamie Heiden * Annabel Spenceley
#WyrdWednesday
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#WyrdWednesday
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
The fascinating Day and Night print by Dutch artist M C Escher.
Never thought I would be celebrating a Scotland win, but we were on the edge of our seats until those two fabulous goals in added on time. Congratulations Scotland! Great win! 👏👏
#Scotland #WorldCup
#Scotland #WorldCup
Scotland secure World Cup spot for first time since 1998 after beating Denmark
Scotland secure World Cup spot for first time since 1998 after beating Denmark
Scotland secured a place at the World Cup for the first time since 1998 after beating Denmark 4-2 in a thrilling match at Hampden Park.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday
The not-so-romantic tale of the Princess and the Frog Prince!!
The not-so-romantic tale of the Princess and the Frog Prince!!
#FairyTaleTuesday
The spell on the Frog Prince is broken, according to the Grimms, not with a romantic kiss, but by the Princess picking him up between two fingers and hurling him against the wall with the words "Now you will have your peace, you disgusting frog!"
🎨Arthur Rackham & Walter Crane
The spell on the Frog Prince is broken, according to the Grimms, not with a romantic kiss, but by the Princess picking him up between two fingers and hurling him against the wall with the words "Now you will have your peace, you disgusting frog!"
🎨Arthur Rackham & Walter Crane
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday
The not-so-romantic tale of the Princess and the Frog Prince!!
The not-so-romantic tale of the Princess and the Frog Prince!!
Lovely quote from the wonderful Middlemarch ♥️
"We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born."
~ George Eliot
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
~ George Eliot
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Lovely quote from the wonderful Middlemarch ♥️
#FairyTaleTuesday
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson * Edward Burne-Jones
#MythologyMonday
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#MythologyMonday
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
Asclepius [Asklepios] - son of Apollo - was adopted by the centaur Chiron, who taught him to be a skilled surgeon and herbalist. Asclepius is frequently depicted carrying a rod with a snake - now the symbol of the WHO.
🎨Statue - Epidaurus * Mosaic - Pompeii * MS @labnf.bsky.social
#MythologyMonday
Abandoned by her father [who wanted a son], Atalanta was raised by a bear, then adopted by hunters. A skilled archer & huntress, able to outrun all opponents, she took part in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar & joined the crew of the Argo.
🎨HD Johnson * Eyt & Thijs * Unknown
Abandoned by her father [who wanted a son], Atalanta was raised by a bear, then adopted by hunters. A skilled archer & huntress, able to outrun all opponents, she took part in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar & joined the crew of the Argo.
🎨HD Johnson * Eyt & Thijs * Unknown
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
#MythologyMonday
Abandoned by her father [who wanted a son], Atalanta was raised by a bear, then adopted by hunters. A skilled archer & huntress, able to outrun all opponents, she took part in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar & joined the crew of the Argo.
🎨HD Johnson * Eyt & Thijs * Unknown
Abandoned by her father [who wanted a son], Atalanta was raised by a bear, then adopted by hunters. A skilled archer & huntress, able to outrun all opponents, she took part in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar & joined the crew of the Argo.
🎨HD Johnson * Eyt & Thijs * Unknown
Flooded path at Fakenham [Norfolk] river walk - Milo carefully picked his way around the puddles so as not to get his feet wet! These beautiful swans on the river Wensum were enjoying the hazy sunshine after all that rain ...
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Flooded path at Fakenham [Norfolk] river walk - Milo carefully picked his way around the puddles so as not to get his feet wet! These beautiful swans on the river Wensum were enjoying the hazy sunshine after all that rain ...
#ShakespeareSunday
"When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves."
Henry VI [i]
🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves."
Henry VI [i]
🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
"When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves."
Henry VI [i]
🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves."
Henry VI [i]
🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#ShakespeareSunday
"... You thus employed, I will go root away
The noisome weeds, that without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers."
Richard II
🎨Vincent Van Gogh
"... You thus employed, I will go root away
The noisome weeds, that without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers."
Richard II
🎨Vincent Van Gogh
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
"... You thus employed, I will go root away
The noisome weeds, that without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers."
Richard II
🎨Vincent Van Gogh
"... You thus employed, I will go root away
The noisome weeds, that without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers."
Richard II
🎨Vincent Van Gogh
Reposted by Joy Parry
Take a moment, and read...
Kenneth C. Steven
Kenneth C. Steven
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Take a moment, and read...
Kenneth C. Steven
Kenneth C. Steven
#ShakespeareSunday
"Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;
He was perfumed like a milliner;
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box ..."
Henry IV [i]
🎨Red Dot Gallery - A Popinjay
"Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;
He was perfumed like a milliner;
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box ..."
Henry IV [i]
🎨Red Dot Gallery - A Popinjay
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
#ShakespeareSunday
"Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;
He was perfumed like a milliner;
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box ..."
Henry IV [i]
🎨Red Dot Gallery - A Popinjay
"Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;
He was perfumed like a milliner;
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box ..."
Henry IV [i]
🎨Red Dot Gallery - A Popinjay
#FolkloreSunday
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
Vincent Van Gogh
🎨James R Eads
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
Vincent Van Gogh
🎨James R Eads
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#FolkloreSunday
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
Vincent Van Gogh
🎨James R Eads
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
Vincent Van Gogh
🎨James R Eads
#ShakespeareSunday
"Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place
I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace.
Rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen,
In the remembrance of a weeping queen."
Richard II
🎨Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale
"Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place
I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace.
Rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen,
In the remembrance of a weeping queen."
Richard II
🎨Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#ShakespeareSunday
"Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place
I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace.
Rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen,
In the remembrance of a weeping queen."
Richard II
🎨Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale
"Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place
I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace.
Rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen,
In the remembrance of a weeping queen."
Richard II
🎨Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale
#FolkloreSunday
Cofgodas ... still my favourite household deities ... 😊
Cofgodas ... still my favourite household deities ... 😊
#FolkloreSunday
Anglo Saxon hearth deities Cofgodas are mostly benign creatures - provided you feed them - who like to help with household chores, usually during the night. However, if you upset them, they will leave forever ...
Anglo Saxon hearth deities Cofgodas are mostly benign creatures - provided you feed them - who like to help with household chores, usually during the night. However, if you upset them, they will leave forever ...
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#FolkloreSunday
Cofgodas ... still my favourite household deities ... 😊
Cofgodas ... still my favourite household deities ... 😊
#ShakespeareSunday
"They surfeited with honey; and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much."
Henry IV [i]
"They surfeited with honey; and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much."
Henry IV [i]
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#ShakespeareSunday
"They surfeited with honey; and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much."
Henry IV [i]
"They surfeited with honey; and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much."
Henry IV [i]
#BookWormSat
"We be *Tylwyth Teg* - the Fair Folk. We be your kinsfolk.
*Mae ein gwaed yn eich gwaed*
Our blood is your blood. We be the Dea-Kinsmen.
Magick is our way."
Horton Deakins
🎨Thomas Henry Thomas
"We be *Tylwyth Teg* - the Fair Folk. We be your kinsfolk.
*Mae ein gwaed yn eich gwaed*
Our blood is your blood. We be the Dea-Kinsmen.
Magick is our way."
Horton Deakins
🎨Thomas Henry Thomas
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#BookWormSat
"We be *Tylwyth Teg* - the Fair Folk. We be your kinsfolk.
*Mae ein gwaed yn eich gwaed*
Our blood is your blood. We be the Dea-Kinsmen.
Magick is our way."
Horton Deakins
🎨Thomas Henry Thomas
"We be *Tylwyth Teg* - the Fair Folk. We be your kinsfolk.
*Mae ein gwaed yn eich gwaed*
Our blood is your blood. We be the Dea-Kinsmen.
Magick is our way."
Horton Deakins
🎨Thomas Henry Thomas
#BookWormSat
[And we fairies, that do run ...]
"... From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic; not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door."
A Midsummer Night's Dream
🎨Alice Woodward
[And we fairies, that do run ...]
"... From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic; not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door."
A Midsummer Night's Dream
🎨Alice Woodward
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
#BookWormSat
[And we fairies, that do run ...]
"... From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic; not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door."
A Midsummer Night's Dream
🎨Alice Woodward
[And we fairies, that do run ...]
"... From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic; not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door."
A Midsummer Night's Dream
🎨Alice Woodward
#FolkyFriday
After Macsen Wledig dreams of a woman in a far off land, he spends years literally pursuing the "Woman of His Dreams" - losing his lands & the loyalty of his people - before his obsession leads him to his love, who helps him regain his status.
[Mabinogion]
🎨T Prytherch & Unknown Artist
After Macsen Wledig dreams of a woman in a far off land, he spends years literally pursuing the "Woman of His Dreams" - losing his lands & the loyalty of his people - before his obsession leads him to his love, who helps him regain his status.
[Mabinogion]
🎨T Prytherch & Unknown Artist
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#FolkyFriday
After Macsen Wledig dreams of a woman in a far off land, he spends years literally pursuing the "Woman of His Dreams" - losing his lands & the loyalty of his people - before his obsession leads him to his love, who helps him regain his status.
[Mabinogion]
🎨T Prytherch & Unknown Artist
After Macsen Wledig dreams of a woman in a far off land, he spends years literally pursuing the "Woman of His Dreams" - losing his lands & the loyalty of his people - before his obsession leads him to his love, who helps him regain his status.
[Mabinogion]
🎨T Prytherch & Unknown Artist
#FolkyFriday
Possible explanation for persistent insomnia ...
Possible explanation for persistent insomnia ...
#MythologyMonday
In some areas of Japan it is said that if you are unable to sleep at night it is because you are awake and participating in someone else's dream ...
🎨Anonymous Artist - Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
In some areas of Japan it is said that if you are unable to sleep at night it is because you are awake and participating in someone else's dream ...
🎨Anonymous Artist - Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#FolkyFriday
Possible explanation for persistent insomnia ...
Possible explanation for persistent insomnia ...
#FolkyFriday
If you want a peaceful night's sleep, don't tread on St John's Wort after sunset ...
If you want a peaceful night's sleep, don't tread on St John's Wort after sunset ...
#FolkyFriday
If you tread on St Johns Wort after sunset, that night your sleep will be disturbed; you will be swept up by a magical white horse and taken on a wild ride across the starry skies until dawn - when you will be deposited back into bed, exhausted ...
🎨Theodor Kittelsen
If you tread on St Johns Wort after sunset, that night your sleep will be disturbed; you will be swept up by a magical white horse and taken on a wild ride across the starry skies until dawn - when you will be deposited back into bed, exhausted ...
🎨Theodor Kittelsen
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#FolkyFriday
If you want a peaceful night's sleep, don't tread on St John's Wort after sunset ...
If you want a peaceful night's sleep, don't tread on St John's Wort after sunset ...
#FolkyFriday
Welsh Dragons go into hibernation around the autumn equinox [Alban Elfed] slumbering through the winter months and emerging again at the spring equinox [Alban Eilir] ...
🎨Likely by Martin Bayton
Welsh Dragons go into hibernation around the autumn equinox [Alban Elfed] slumbering through the winter months and emerging again at the spring equinox [Alban Eilir] ...
🎨Likely by Martin Bayton
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#FolkyFriday
Welsh Dragons go into hibernation around the autumn equinox [Alban Elfed] slumbering through the winter months and emerging again at the spring equinox [Alban Eilir] ...
🎨Likely by Martin Bayton
Welsh Dragons go into hibernation around the autumn equinox [Alban Elfed] slumbering through the winter months and emerging again at the spring equinox [Alban Eilir] ...
🎨Likely by Martin Bayton
Memorial Plaque to Nonconformist Martyrs in Norwich, burned to death during the reign of Mary I. They were imprisoned at the site of the Lollards Pit Pub [hence its name] before their executions - the pub is the most haunted site in Norwich.
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Memorial Plaque to Nonconformist Martyrs in Norwich, burned to death during the reign of Mary I. They were imprisoned at the site of the Lollards Pit Pub [hence its name] before their executions - the pub is the most haunted site in Norwich.
Mousehold in Norwich, site of a former chapel: The body of a murdered 12 year old boy called William was found here in the 12th century. Despite the murderer never being found, the local Jewish community was blamed - making it a very early example of a Blood Libel.
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Mousehold in Norwich, site of a former chapel: The body of a murdered 12 year old boy called William was found here in the 12th century. Despite the murderer never being found, the local Jewish community was blamed - making it a very early example of a Blood Libel.