Michelle Maurice
@michellemuhrees.bsky.social
Ninja. Not really. Reader of books. Writer of things.
Quite proud to have passed the ‘Are you a human’ challenge here.
Music, film, art, travel ❤️
Quite proud to have passed the ‘Are you a human’ challenge here.
Music, film, art, travel ❤️
How did I not know about this?
3 people driving home from a party through the wild Welsh mountainsides, where a vicious storm forces them to take shelter at a very odd house, with some even odder owners.
I’m sinking right into this - perfect for Halloween 🎃
#booksky #bookrecommendations #books
3 people driving home from a party through the wild Welsh mountainsides, where a vicious storm forces them to take shelter at a very odd house, with some even odder owners.
I’m sinking right into this - perfect for Halloween 🎃
#booksky #bookrecommendations #books
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
How did I not know about this?
3 people driving home from a party through the wild Welsh mountainsides, where a vicious storm forces them to take shelter at a very odd house, with some even odder owners.
I’m sinking right into this - perfect for Halloween 🎃
#booksky #bookrecommendations #books
3 people driving home from a party through the wild Welsh mountainsides, where a vicious storm forces them to take shelter at a very odd house, with some even odder owners.
I’m sinking right into this - perfect for Halloween 🎃
#booksky #bookrecommendations #books
September 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
September 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Lonely sea and skies. Although what you can’t see is the herd of family corralled behind me, ready to stampede past 😆
#photos #phonephotos #Pembrokeshire #PembrokeshireCoast
#photos #phonephotos #Pembrokeshire #PembrokeshireCoast
August 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Lonely sea and skies. Although what you can’t see is the herd of family corralled behind me, ready to stampede past 😆
#photos #phonephotos #Pembrokeshire #PembrokeshireCoast
#photos #phonephotos #Pembrokeshire #PembrokeshireCoast
This is fascinating, an exploration of Paganism‘s history & practices. It nimbly assesses its sources & is so knowledgeable, exploding a few myths (see below!) & really making me think.
Written with a most pleasing dry wit too. Recommend ❤️
#booksky #bookrecommendations #books #pagan
Written with a most pleasing dry wit too. Recommend ❤️
#booksky #bookrecommendations #books #pagan
August 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fascinating, an exploration of Paganism‘s history & practices. It nimbly assesses its sources & is so knowledgeable, exploding a few myths (see below!) & really making me think.
Written with a most pleasing dry wit too. Recommend ❤️
#booksky #bookrecommendations #books #pagan
Written with a most pleasing dry wit too. Recommend ❤️
#booksky #bookrecommendations #books #pagan
#Castlerigg
Just look at those moody mountains. And beautiful stones, in their saucy little Neolithic way.
I can highly recommend this one for stone circle fans, it’s spectacular ❤️
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles
Just look at those moody mountains. And beautiful stones, in their saucy little Neolithic way.
I can highly recommend this one for stone circle fans, it’s spectacular ❤️
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles
August 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#Castlerigg
Just look at those moody mountains. And beautiful stones, in their saucy little Neolithic way.
I can highly recommend this one for stone circle fans, it’s spectacular ❤️
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles
Just look at those moody mountains. And beautiful stones, in their saucy little Neolithic way.
I can highly recommend this one for stone circle fans, it’s spectacular ❤️
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles
#Castlerigg
The most stunning setting for a stone circle, surely. Plus really photogenic stones.
No wonder the Romantics strode about writing about nature & stuff. This place gets you like that.
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles #RomanticPoets #Wordsworth #Literature #Poetry
The most stunning setting for a stone circle, surely. Plus really photogenic stones.
No wonder the Romantics strode about writing about nature & stuff. This place gets you like that.
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles #RomanticPoets #Wordsworth #Literature #Poetry
August 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
#Castlerigg
The most stunning setting for a stone circle, surely. Plus really photogenic stones.
No wonder the Romantics strode about writing about nature & stuff. This place gets you like that.
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles #RomanticPoets #Wordsworth #Literature #Poetry
The most stunning setting for a stone circle, surely. Plus really photogenic stones.
No wonder the Romantics strode about writing about nature & stuff. This place gets you like that.
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircles #RomanticPoets #Wordsworth #Literature #Poetry
Swinside - a wonderfully remote & peaceful standing stone circle. Although I think maybe a few stones didn’t get the brief
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircle #StandingStones
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircle #StandingStones
August 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Swinside - a wonderfully remote & peaceful standing stone circle. Although I think maybe a few stones didn’t get the brief
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircle #StandingStones
#StandingStoneSunday #StoneCircle #StandingStones
August 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Pete, joining me for an evening glass of wine in the garden.
Is this a peregrine falcon, anyone? If not, I’ll have to rename him
#birds #bluebirdsky #britishbirds #gardens #gardenbirds
Is this a peregrine falcon, anyone? If not, I’ll have to rename him
#birds #bluebirdsky #britishbirds #gardens #gardenbirds
July 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Pete, joining me for an evening glass of wine in the garden.
Is this a peregrine falcon, anyone? If not, I’ll have to rename him
#birds #bluebirdsky #britishbirds #gardens #gardenbirds
Is this a peregrine falcon, anyone? If not, I’ll have to rename him
#birds #bluebirdsky #britishbirds #gardens #gardenbirds
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Apollo 11.
Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969.
Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!
Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969.
Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!
July 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Apollo 11.
Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969.
Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!
Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969.
Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!
Reposted by Michelle Maurice
I have questions …
July 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I have questions …
That chance visit to an art gallery, and there’s a piece by one of your favourite sculptors there ❤️
I may have had to be dragged away from it by a friend. And I may or may not have been blowing kisses to it (quietly) 😗
Look at it, though
#art #sculpture #gallery #BarbaraHepworth #Amgueddfa
I may have had to be dragged away from it by a friend. And I may or may not have been blowing kisses to it (quietly) 😗
Look at it, though
#art #sculpture #gallery #BarbaraHepworth #Amgueddfa
June 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
That chance visit to an art gallery, and there’s a piece by one of your favourite sculptors there ❤️
I may have had to be dragged away from it by a friend. And I may or may not have been blowing kisses to it (quietly) 😗
Look at it, though
#art #sculpture #gallery #BarbaraHepworth #Amgueddfa
I may have had to be dragged away from it by a friend. And I may or may not have been blowing kisses to it (quietly) 😗
Look at it, though
#art #sculpture #gallery #BarbaraHepworth #Amgueddfa
Utterly fascinated by this, about hands in dreams.
Realised I’ve never dreamt about hands. Weekend spent focusing on them to try to induce a dream & test the theory. So far, no luck.
May have to control for wine.
#booksky #books #bookrecommendations #neuroscience #psychology #dreams
Realised I’ve never dreamt about hands. Weekend spent focusing on them to try to induce a dream & test the theory. So far, no luck.
May have to control for wine.
#booksky #books #bookrecommendations #neuroscience #psychology #dreams
June 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Utterly fascinated by this, about hands in dreams.
Realised I’ve never dreamt about hands. Weekend spent focusing on them to try to induce a dream & test the theory. So far, no luck.
May have to control for wine.
#booksky #books #bookrecommendations #neuroscience #psychology #dreams
Realised I’ve never dreamt about hands. Weekend spent focusing on them to try to induce a dream & test the theory. So far, no luck.
May have to control for wine.
#booksky #books #bookrecommendations #neuroscience #psychology #dreams
‘Music will often take me like the sea!’
When clouds are low
Or in clear ether, I towards my pale star,
Set sail and go;’
Baudelaire
#booksky #literature #bookrecommendations #poetry #Baudelaire #TheFlowersOfEvil
When clouds are low
Or in clear ether, I towards my pale star,
Set sail and go;’
Baudelaire
#booksky #literature #bookrecommendations #poetry #Baudelaire #TheFlowersOfEvil
June 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
‘Music will often take me like the sea!’
When clouds are low
Or in clear ether, I towards my pale star,
Set sail and go;’
Baudelaire
#booksky #literature #bookrecommendations #poetry #Baudelaire #TheFlowersOfEvil
When clouds are low
Or in clear ether, I towards my pale star,
Set sail and go;’
Baudelaire
#booksky #literature #bookrecommendations #poetry #Baudelaire #TheFlowersOfEvil
Reposted by Michelle Maurice
The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
May 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Vowed yesterday not to buy more books. Immediately bought this.
It’s so good! Psychology, science, anthropology of dreams, looking at patterns across regions & times, brain activity etc.
Feel I can research this by napping, too, so 👍🏻
#booksky #bookrecommendations #science #neuroscience #books
It’s so good! Psychology, science, anthropology of dreams, looking at patterns across regions & times, brain activity etc.
Feel I can research this by napping, too, so 👍🏻
#booksky #bookrecommendations #science #neuroscience #books
May 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Vowed yesterday not to buy more books. Immediately bought this.
It’s so good! Psychology, science, anthropology of dreams, looking at patterns across regions & times, brain activity etc.
Feel I can research this by napping, too, so 👍🏻
#booksky #bookrecommendations #science #neuroscience #books
It’s so good! Psychology, science, anthropology of dreams, looking at patterns across regions & times, brain activity etc.
Feel I can research this by napping, too, so 👍🏻
#booksky #bookrecommendations #science #neuroscience #books
The King’s Stone
Looking particularly regal today, if I may say so
#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircle #standingstones #standingstonesunday
#RollrightStones
Looking particularly regal today, if I may say so
#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircle #standingstones #standingstonesunday
#RollrightStones
May 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The King’s Stone
Looking particularly regal today, if I may say so
#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircle #standingstones #standingstonesunday
#RollrightStones
Looking particularly regal today, if I may say so
#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircle #standingstones #standingstonesunday
#RollrightStones
May 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Cheers 🍸
It’s Friday night—time to swap stress for gin and sin.
May 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Cheers 🍸
Reposted by Michelle Maurice
As thus he sat beneath an oak
An acorn fell abruptly
And smote his nose: whereat he spoke
Of acorns most corruptly.
Fables for the Frivolous (1899) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fables-for-the-frivolous-1899
An acorn fell abruptly
And smote his nose: whereat he spoke
Of acorns most corruptly.
Fables for the Frivolous (1899) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fables-for-the-frivolous-1899
May 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
As thus he sat beneath an oak
An acorn fell abruptly
And smote his nose: whereat he spoke
Of acorns most corruptly.
Fables for the Frivolous (1899) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fables-for-the-frivolous-1899
An acorn fell abruptly
And smote his nose: whereat he spoke
Of acorns most corruptly.
Fables for the Frivolous (1899) by Guy Wetmore Carryl.
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fables-for-the-frivolous-1899
I’m finally getting round to reading some #Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil.
I wonder if he was inspired by Marvell’s Coy Mistress? Quite a few worms as memento mori for beauty - suitably passionate & grim, carpe diem. He did love a juxtaposition.
#booksky #poetry #literature #bookrecommendations
I wonder if he was inspired by Marvell’s Coy Mistress? Quite a few worms as memento mori for beauty - suitably passionate & grim, carpe diem. He did love a juxtaposition.
#booksky #poetry #literature #bookrecommendations
May 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I’m finally getting round to reading some #Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil.
I wonder if he was inspired by Marvell’s Coy Mistress? Quite a few worms as memento mori for beauty - suitably passionate & grim, carpe diem. He did love a juxtaposition.
#booksky #poetry #literature #bookrecommendations
I wonder if he was inspired by Marvell’s Coy Mistress? Quite a few worms as memento mori for beauty - suitably passionate & grim, carpe diem. He did love a juxtaposition.
#booksky #poetry #literature #bookrecommendations
So far today:
Time spent writing: 1 hour
Time spent obsessively trying to get photo of squirrel in garden: 1 hour
Look at him, though 🐿️
#writingcommunity #writers #writerslife #writersofbluesky
Time spent writing: 1 hour
Time spent obsessively trying to get photo of squirrel in garden: 1 hour
Look at him, though 🐿️
#writingcommunity #writers #writerslife #writersofbluesky
May 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
So far today:
Time spent writing: 1 hour
Time spent obsessively trying to get photo of squirrel in garden: 1 hour
Look at him, though 🐿️
#writingcommunity #writers #writerslife #writersofbluesky
Time spent writing: 1 hour
Time spent obsessively trying to get photo of squirrel in garden: 1 hour
Look at him, though 🐿️
#writingcommunity #writers #writerslife #writersofbluesky
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sometimes all that's needed is a nice picture of J. G. Ballard holding a pink and white beach ball.
May 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
sometimes all that's needed is a nice picture of J. G. Ballard holding a pink and white beach ball.