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Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦‪ MARK RUSKELL MSP‬⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!

Image: Dorset Landscape with Evening Sky, John Everett (1876–1949), Dorset Museum & Art Gallery.

It was a very cold evening & the East wind was as thin as glass. Look, Wolf, look at the sky over the Downs, said Pine Marten, the clouds look so strange. They're called Lamenters, said Wolf, torn clouds, strife-tellers, come a long way they have to bring their warnings.

One of the most gloriously misleading TV spots I've ever seen.

Completely exhausted.

Part of our exhibition at GOMA is a new set of silk paintings by Clair, based on the #Lichen found on #StandingStones. Here's Megalithic Lichen B (90cm x 90cm) from the series.

A drawing of a dark, atmospheric forest scene. The central focus is a winding, narrow path leading into a misty, yellowish light in the distance. The path is framed by the dark, gnarled trunks and bare branches of trees that arch overhead, creating a tunnel-like effect. At the end of the tunnel is the shadow of a figure that almost seems to have antlers from the branches.

🖼️ In the Holloway, Stanley Donwood

An ancient ent rests high in the Cotswold hills.

Travelling in Middle Earth 💫✨

Just read that David Pinner, author of RITUAL, died on Christmas Eve. RITUAL famously inspired THE WICKER MAN.

This is the lovely Nigel Farage. The photographer gave him a message before he went to support the Boxing Day hunt.

He’d hate it if people shared this and signed the petition for a proper ban on fox hunting - protectthewild.org.uk/our-campaign...

😆🤣😆 in that case, His Maj will have my undivided attention in the morning 🎄🎄

Merry Christmas to all the shed folk. The Nortivity looks to be a very professional production this year. I will have a rare venture onto Insta tomorrow morning and catch up. This will set my Christmas Day up very nicely. As I say I expect utter professionalism for Norty and co 😆 🎄

As Labour announce they’ll ban trail hunting, man in Barbour jacket and mustard trousers accuses them of being out of touch with public: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy Winter Solstice everyone.
One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work.
Lighter days ahead.

Sometimes the journey itself is the reward ♡

#oilpaintingprocess

Now that's what I call a camera trap photo . Thank you to Wendy Hall ( @tedborrow ) for today's nosey #FoxOfTheDay

Pendon Museum, bringing the past to life - Abingdon, Oxfordshire At Pendon we recapture scenes showing the beauty of the English countryside as it was in the Inter-War years. We do this through the medium of detailed, accurate and colourful models constructed to th...

Might not be quite what you’re looking for but worth a visit regardless is the Pendon Museum in Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.

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Grey squirrel in ivy covered tree, deer below, landscape in background, grey sky, illustration.

🖼️ John Leigh Pemberton

I visited the Downland exhibition at @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social yesterday. Wonderful works of art that would appeal to any discerning Stone Clubber. It got my brain fuzzing with new ideas, very inspiring.

www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

Drawing of hare in mid leap on white paper.

🖼️ Sally Walker

Opening door number four of the Scarred For Life advent calendar, we find... ITV's brilliant adaptations of John Wyndham's novel about a troubled boy and his alien friend: the CHOCKY trilogy!

The Third Window. Five and twenty past four and Miss Rabbit and Grey Brock were settling down to tea. It was already dark outside and Miss Rabbit had lit the oil lamps and the little candles in the holly wreath which shone merrily in the dark parlour. It was the first time the two friends had sat down together since the beginning of Advent, and so they had made a little more effort than was usual with their repast. There were crumpets dripping with butter, a tall cottage loaf, half a green Cheshire round, a large Dorset apple cake and a small Plantagenet Pear cake, both served with yellow scalded cream, piping-hot cheese croquettes straight from the range, jars of tomato chutney and piccalilli, and a heart-shaped box of Fuller's assorted chocolates Miss Rabbit had been saving for a special occasion. Afterwards, they sat by the fire and talked about their doings – Grey Brock's carpentry and odd jobs and Miss Rabbit's catering, and then about the coming weeks and Christmas itself, which glittered on the horizon, full of warmth and light and companionship – for little more is needed when the larder is full, one's health is robust, and kind and stalwart friends are near.

#OldFoxAdventCalendar

Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book

One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Liddington in Winter. Swirling pattern of very pale greens inspired by the fields and woods seen in a vertical aerial photograph of the landscape around an Iron Age hillfort.

Liddington in Summer. Swirling pattern of very pale greens and areas of darker green inspired by the fields and woods seen in a vertical aerial photograph of the landscape around an Iron Age hillfort.

Black and white aerial photograph showing fields and woodland in the landscape around Liddington hillfort, seen top centre.

An aerial photo of Liddington hillfort in our collectons inspired artist and archaeologist Rose Ferraby to create two prints now in our exhibition - Liddington in Winter / Summer. Different layers of paint in the print created different effects. #HillfortsWednesday

​Striking lines and textures at Brightwell Barrow back in late summer. The recently tilled earth meets the stubble field, all watched over by the gentle glow of the Belt of Venus on the horizon. A perfect end to the day. #BeltOfVenus #LandscapePhotography #Sunset

An oak that looks very angry

NEVER EVER ANNOY AN ENGLISH OAK 😬🫣

Saplings from the Sycamore Gap tree at the control tower Greenham

Stonehenge Free Festival 1980 with Hawkwind, Crass, The Mob, Poison Girls, Epileptics, and Nik Turner’s Inner City Unit

Now this is how to start a history book. A Wiltshire story teller 1890s.

"There were a time, 'tweren't in my time, neither in your time, nit (nor yet) in anybody else's time; 'twere when magpies builded in old men's beards and turkey-cocks chewed bacca”.

Gronda! Gronda! THE ADVENTURE GAME (1980) saw celebs try to escape from the planet Arg. Each episode culminated with the Vortex, a pulsating column of light which 'evaporated' the likes of Bonnie Langford and Richard Stilgoe. Don't worry, kids, they're not dead. Doogy Rev!

This is a Blackbird painted by Vanessa Foley and sold as a limited edition print by us. It's limited, signed, and expertly printed in the UK.

Available now.