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That's a steal! 😮 Fantastic!

Trying to read those nine volumes is no joke! 🤣

Herne protect us... #robin_the_hooded_man

Nettle & Bone by @tkingfisher.com is also excellent for the season of mists! Hemlock & Silver is less spooky but very enjoyable as well 😀

I love hanging around in graveyards and I rarely party these days but I'm not particularly keen on Cohen's music... So that does not make me a sheep, right? 🤔

Legenda sounds beautifully Polish to me :) Congratulations on your new book!

An overly fluffy sheep posing for a photo somewhere in Devonshire. Even though the colours are subdued making everything rather monochromatic, she looks straight at the photographer in all her fluffy glory!

I didn't realise how many photos of sheep I've got on my phone! This one is one of my oldest and, I think, the best. It was such a miserable, monochromatic day—but just look at her! 🐑

The Hobbit dust jacket artwork by J.R.R. Tolkien

Gosh, this looks familiar 😉

Thanks, Tom! I think it might be because the preorder was to be delivered today. But I managed to snatch a copy but I have to wait till Saturday (harrumph! 😉)

Amazon UK just informed me they had to cancel my pre-order 😭

But I bet there were still plants and birds and rocks and things ;)

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Can't wait! I think I'm going to rewatch the first series this weekend 😍

If only Anne Boleyn had known her fate then...

Uhm, to quote the great @neildegrassetyson.com, "you can say ur-anus until you're like 8, you know?" 😆

The slang expression was coined a long time after the town got its name, so there's no connection, I'm afraid 😉 The town was named after The Blue Ball Inn, built by John Wallace, who literally hung a big blue ball from a post to help travellers find it.

Fun fact: there's a village in Poland called Swornegacie. The name sounds funny bc it could be translated as 'obedient underpants' but in fact it comes from two Kashubian words: 'swora', meaning a braid made of pine roots used for strengthening (known as 'gacenie') the banks of lakes and rivers.

"Coś tu śmierdzi." = something stinks here. A similar one could be "coś tu nie gra" = something's not quite right.

In modern usage, however, owls are seen as symbols of wisdom: sowa, mądra głowa =wise as an owl🦉= 🤓

In Polish: 'nie urodzi sowa sokoła' (=an owl won't give birth to a falcon) which means that some things are simply beyond one's capabilities. Another one, a bit morbid, is 'Sowa na dachu kwili, komuś umrzeć po chwili' = a crying (squawking) owl on the roof is a harbinger of someone's imminent death.

Happy birthday, Adam!🎈

There's this great old saying in Polish—"W starym piecu diabeł pali" (= The devil fires up the old stove) which can be translated as "there's life in the old dog yet" 😉

Thank you! 😊

Would you mind sharing the link, pls?

"...I wonder where the TARDIS goes at random..."

Love it! 😂

Ah, but let's not forget that listening to the Shipping Forecast also helps alleviate insomnia :)

In Polish, we say 'stek bzdur' which means 'load of rubbish'. BUT(T) really the word 'stek' is a derivative of 'sewage' ('ściek'). Also, the name of the animal order of 'stekowce' (Monotremes) derives from Greek: single+hole = the cloaca. So 'stek bzdur' really translates to 'the cloaca of rubbish'.

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