The Triple Oracle
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That’s not the rule and you know it.
May 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
That’s not the rule and you know it.
“In the way of animal people, she did not speak with her mouth, instead using a language that all living things could understand. It blossomed in Ellie’s head like a dream, a series of thoughts she did not consciously control.”
-- Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
#booksky
-- Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
#booksky
April 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“In the way of animal people, she did not speak with her mouth, instead using a language that all living things could understand. It blossomed in Ellie’s head like a dream, a series of thoughts she did not consciously control.”
-- Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
#booksky
-- Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
#booksky
“ ‘And this is the big one,’ she says. ‘What will be.’ And then Rae turns over – of course she does – the Ten of Cups.
The rainbow, the loving couple, the happy children.
I flinch as though at the spring of a trap. ‘Domestic bliss,’ she says. ‘Lucky you.’ “
-- Delphi, Clare Pollard
The rainbow, the loving couple, the happy children.
I flinch as though at the spring of a trap. ‘Domestic bliss,’ she says. ‘Lucky you.’ “
-- Delphi, Clare Pollard
April 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“ ‘And this is the big one,’ she says. ‘What will be.’ And then Rae turns over – of course she does – the Ten of Cups.
The rainbow, the loving couple, the happy children.
I flinch as though at the spring of a trap. ‘Domestic bliss,’ she says. ‘Lucky you.’ “
-- Delphi, Clare Pollard
The rainbow, the loving couple, the happy children.
I flinch as though at the spring of a trap. ‘Domestic bliss,’ she says. ‘Lucky you.’ “
-- Delphi, Clare Pollard
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When I was in Sligo in 2018 I noticed the elderly couple I was staying with had a penny over the doorway of each door. The gentleman said it was for luck.
I've heard other, more pagan minded people say its for the house spirit.
It's a simple folk practice and I adopted it myself.
I've heard other, more pagan minded people say its for the house spirit.
It's a simple folk practice and I adopted it myself.
March 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
When I was in Sligo in 2018 I noticed the elderly couple I was staying with had a penny over the doorway of each door. The gentleman said it was for luck.
I've heard other, more pagan minded people say its for the house spirit.
It's a simple folk practice and I adopted it myself.
I've heard other, more pagan minded people say its for the house spirit.
It's a simple folk practice and I adopted it myself.
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December 13, 2024 at 1:30 PM
“In the end, it was four words that changed the course of our lives and the history of the world. Perhaps it wasn’t really so surprising. They were, after all, the most important words in any language.
‘What are you reading?’”
-- The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, H.G. Parry
#booksky
‘What are you reading?’”
-- The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, H.G. Parry
#booksky
March 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“In the end, it was four words that changed the course of our lives and the history of the world. Perhaps it wasn’t really so surprising. They were, after all, the most important words in any language.
‘What are you reading?’”
-- The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, H.G. Parry
#booksky
‘What are you reading?’”
-- The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, H.G. Parry
#booksky
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On my 3rd attempt today (1st time foiled by bullocks, 2nd by horses), I finally managed to get to the stones of Gwern y Cleppa, on the outskirts of Newport, South Wales! A proud moment. #standingstonesunday @megalithic.bsky.social @meirion.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
On my 3rd attempt today (1st time foiled by bullocks, 2nd by horses), I finally managed to get to the stones of Gwern y Cleppa, on the outskirts of Newport, South Wales! A proud moment. #standingstonesunday @megalithic.bsky.social @meirion.bsky.social
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Glastonbury Abbey
January 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Glastonbury Abbey
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Damp dog lying-down shape left on kitchen floor.
September 5, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Damp dog lying-down shape left on kitchen floor.
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I am still in a very unsettled state of mind.
September 5, 2024 at 12:04 PM
I am still in a very unsettled state of mind.
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Fairy rings. I'm writing on early scientific explanations to dismiss the supernatural.
In 1853 a Yorkshire correspondent to "The Naturalist" magazine suggested, from observation of his pet hedgehog, that some fairy rings were caused by hedgehogs running in circles.
In 1853 a Yorkshire correspondent to "The Naturalist" magazine suggested, from observation of his pet hedgehog, that some fairy rings were caused by hedgehogs running in circles.
August 29, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Fairy rings. I'm writing on early scientific explanations to dismiss the supernatural.
In 1853 a Yorkshire correspondent to "The Naturalist" magazine suggested, from observation of his pet hedgehog, that some fairy rings were caused by hedgehogs running in circles.
In 1853 a Yorkshire correspondent to "The Naturalist" magazine suggested, from observation of his pet hedgehog, that some fairy rings were caused by hedgehogs running in circles.
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Call them fox ways, call them faerie paths or desire lines, but all know when we walk them there's the possibility they will lead us into wonder. For these are our true folk tracks and it's in our hearts to steer our feet towards enchantment. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
August 27, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Call them fox ways, call them faerie paths or desire lines, but all know when we walk them there's the possibility they will lead us into wonder. For these are our true folk tracks and it's in our hearts to steer our feet towards enchantment. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Escape’
(Look and Learn, 1964)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Escape’
(Look and Learn, 1964)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
August 24, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Escape’
(Look and Learn, 1964)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Escape’
(Look and Learn, 1964)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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August 19, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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There’s always a morning, comes along mid-August, when you wake up and there’s that ‘chill’ in the air. You know autumn is just around the corner. Today is that day! 🍂🍁🍄🍁🍂
August 19, 2024 at 9:08 AM
There’s always a morning, comes along mid-August, when you wake up and there’s that ‘chill’ in the air. You know autumn is just around the corner. Today is that day! 🍂🍁🍄🍁🍂
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People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines
Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups
And we are but human & we want tiny cup
Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups
And we are but human & we want tiny cup
July 20, 2024 at 2:49 AM
People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines
Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups
And we are but human & we want tiny cup
Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups
And we are but human & we want tiny cup
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A fun interview about other people’s books! fivebooks.com/best-books/f...
Five Books: Fantasy Books Based on Fairy Tales, recommended by Ursula Vernon
Five modern retellings of fairy tales, as recommended by Ursula Vernon, a prolific author of award-winning fantasy books
fivebooks.com
June 7, 2024 at 4:43 PM
A fun interview about other people’s books! fivebooks.com/best-books/f...
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My favourite little vixen
sniffing some Pulsatilla flowers
- pretty much exactly on this day 2 years ago 🦊🐾✨
sniffing some Pulsatilla flowers
- pretty much exactly on this day 2 years ago 🦊🐾✨
April 6, 2024 at 6:04 PM
My favourite little vixen
sniffing some Pulsatilla flowers
- pretty much exactly on this day 2 years ago 🦊🐾✨
sniffing some Pulsatilla flowers
- pretty much exactly on this day 2 years ago 🦊🐾✨
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“It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.” - Charles de Lint
December 25, 2023 at 2:49 PM
“It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.” - Charles de Lint
"But a deeper part of him knew that he was not dreaming. He was crystal-clear awake, in a Midwinter Day that had been waiting for him to wake into it since the day he had been born, and, he somehow knew, for centuries before that."
-- The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
#books #fantasy #solstice
-- The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
#books #fantasy #solstice
December 22, 2023 at 8:54 AM
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I assume David Bowie must have chilled the fluid into a freezing hydrocarbon foam or powder and dropped such quantities as to drive off the O2 and smother the flames before the gasoline could itself vaporise and ignite.
Either way an extraordinary achievement for the British musician.
Either way an extraordinary achievement for the British musician.
December 15, 2023 at 11:51 AM
I assume David Bowie must have chilled the fluid into a freezing hydrocarbon foam or powder and dropped such quantities as to drive off the O2 and smother the flames before the gasoline could itself vaporise and ignite.
Either way an extraordinary achievement for the British musician.
Either way an extraordinary achievement for the British musician.
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Dirac was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th C. This is how he worked, drawing figures to capture geometries — a practice that began with compulsory technical drawing classes as a schoolboy in Bristol.
(Reminder: STEAM > STEM, educating the eye makes the mind stronger.)
(Reminder: STEAM > STEM, educating the eye makes the mind stronger.)
November 27, 2023 at 8:46 PM
Dirac was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th C. This is how he worked, drawing figures to capture geometries — a practice that began with compulsory technical drawing classes as a schoolboy in Bristol.
(Reminder: STEAM > STEM, educating the eye makes the mind stronger.)
(Reminder: STEAM > STEM, educating the eye makes the mind stronger.)