Bob Fry

“The Disreputable Pond”

🎨 Maximilian Liebenwein (1907)

#GoldenAgeofIllustration

you got it absolutely right.
I love the book, but its charm is based on enthusiasm, not academic rigour. It is a piece of folklore in itself

undoubtedly

Four white shorn sheep shapes on a green background. Four Sheep. artwork by Peter Kinley 1970.

Sheep Art

Sausage.

No, you are…

An excellent analysis of this classic volume.
“With more enthusiasm than academic rigour, essays on 2000 years of British folklore are presented with county maps displaying hotspots of historic, folkloric or ghostly shenanigans.”
It has faults, but it is inspirational.

YouTube video by Jarvis Cocker - Topic Running the World

After peering gingerly into the Epstein Files, I am convinced of one thing - Jarvis was right and this is a time of MONSTERS

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One end of a chest tomb, elaborately carved with a winged cherub head and scroll work.

#TombTuesday
In the Boneyard of St Peter’s, Rodmarton.

"Lo!"
Beowulf: The Oldest English Epic translated into Alliterative Verse, 1940
Charles W. Kennedy 🇺🇸

A black and white charcoal drawing of dandelion with leaves, roots and flower heads.

Connecting the planes
Liminal wishes
Reach high to the winds
And deep in the ditches

Our blood shifts to wake
As time cycles through
Seeds, flowers, and heads
Stars, suns and moons

Dandelion Botanical Study
Charcoal

#Botany #Nature #Flowers #Spring

Can't wait for this.

People would swap them too. I remember that it never seemed too difficult to get a whole set. My parents drank so much tea. One of my albums still has a Card Order Form in it

Yes Maria. My father also identified trees for me.

Trees growing from an old hedge, on a hillside where they've had to grow somewhat laterally to reach for sunlight. Devon, winter.

Reaching out

#Devon #trees

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
#Yeats

close up of a patch of green lichen on metal

Colour for (yet another) grey day.

How to alienate the people who vote for you in 10 easy steps..

George sums up the failings of this Labour govt pretty well here .. then you realize there's at least another ten points he could have added..

The cover of the album Trees in Britain. Brooke Bond Picture Cards. Illustrated & Described by Michael Youens. Price Sixpence. Three trees are shown on the cover. A Common Lime. A Horse Chestnut. A Larch.

40. BEECH (Fagus sylvatica). FAGACEE. Examined closely, the oval, rather shining leaves of the Beech are most attractive, with fine silky hairs around the margins and along the veins of the lower surfaces; when young they are very delicate and thin, and before leaf fall produce most beautiful autumn tints. The male (0) and female (7) flowers are separate on the same tree, the former being scattered in clusters along tassel-like stalks. The fruit (A), commonly known as 'beech mast', consists of one or two triangular nuts (B) in a hard prickly case which opens lengthwise along 4 'seams'

A picture card showing the leaves and fruit of the Beech

39. BEECH (Fagus sylvatica) FAGACEE. Perhaps the noblest of all our great woodland trees, the Beech is most at home on hills of chalk and limestone such as the Chilterns and the Cotswolds, where one may walk beneath giants up to 150 feet in height with massive, grey, smooth trunks. The crown is broad and densely leafy, casting a refreshing but rather sombre shade. Native only in the south, it is frequently planted elsewhere. Beech is one of our toughest native timbers, but is most suitable for domestic use, being rather perishable outdoors.

Beech
A picture card illustrated and described by Michael Youens. I collected these when a young Bob

bert from sesame street is wearing glasses and a suit and tie ALT: bert from sesame street is wearing glasses and a suit and tie

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The front cover of the album Brooke Bond Picture Cards Wild Flowers (series 3). Illustrated and described by C F Tunnicliffe R.A. Price Sixpence The illustration shows primroses & violets. It is beautiful.

(2) STINKING HELLEBORE: Helleborus foetidus L. The specific name of this flower at once tells us that it has an unpleasant smell. Nevertheless, it is a very beautiful and remarkable plant. On a foot high stem it carries a large, loose panicle of drooping yellowish-green flowers, the edges of the cup-shaped sepals being tinged with purple. Later these sepals turn back when the fruit is ripe. Flowering period is from February to April, and it prefers to grow in woods with a chalky soil. It is rare and highly poisonous. Sometimes called Bear's Foot because of the leaf shape.

Stinking Helebore by C F Tunnicliffe. A picture card from the Wild Flowers series 3 album.

"Listen!"
Beowulf, 1982
S.A.J. Bradley 🇬🇧

Red cover with illustration of fox and title; The Silver Fox in silver.

Book Cover of the Day:

Like most things ghosts are seasonal and it is still winter-ghost time here.

In the hedges, shortcuts and byways they whisper to themselves in the hour before dawn.

Watching us.

Envying us our coming spring.

YouTube video by TheOnlyOnesVEVO The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (Video)

Another girl, another planet
#MusicSky

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