Philip Philtrum
@justfolk.bsky.social
Leftist, anti-imperialist, eco-socialist. An academic until 2017, I'm still a folklorist & linguist but I like more to dig holes for plants now. I take pictures a lot, very often of birds. I listen to shortwave radio. I curse politicians. Don't you?
Sadly they are both dead. Harold's wife, Corky (Cordelia, but everyone even her children knew her as Corky) just died a couple of weeks ago in NS. That's where she and Harold moved in the early 1980s. They have left lots of family around and about though.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Sadly they are both dead. Harold's wife, Corky (Cordelia, but everyone even her children knew her as Corky) just died a couple of weeks ago in NS. That's where she and Harold moved in the early 1980s. They have left lots of family around and about though.
They thought seeds were blowing out from the shipments of Cannabis indica being used for rope products and they were growing freely there. But I think none ever survived a winter.
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
They thought seeds were blowing out from the shipments of Cannabis indica being used for rope products and they were growing freely there. But I think none ever survived a winter.
Harold Horwood and his poet brother Charlie Horwood were children in the area around the old "Ropewalk" in St. John's in the 1930s and early '40s. When I knew them in the late 1960s and 1970s, they would talk about plants they would find growing wild around the Ropewalk.
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Harold Horwood and his poet brother Charlie Horwood were children in the area around the old "Ropewalk" in St. John's in the 1930s and early '40s. When I knew them in the late 1960s and 1970s, they would talk about plants they would find growing wild around the Ropewalk.
So true. Sometimes the resin smells and sometimes the leaves. Very aromatic either way.
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
So true. Sometimes the resin smells and sometimes the leaves. Very aromatic either way.
Lovely picture. What kind of bird is this?
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Lovely picture. What kind of bird is this?