I am very looking forward to their comeuppance.
20.10.2025 19:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@freyalyn.bsky.social
Folklore, history, textiles ancient and modern, archaeology, nature, spinning and knitting teacher, dyer. Pretty keen on breadmaking too. Yorkshire, UK. "Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."
I am very looking forward to their comeuppance.
20.10.2025 19:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It sounds like an excellent way to use up that half-tin of condensed milk that always seems to be leftover, diluted with a bit of milk or water.
19.10.2025 19:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It would burn properly all the way to the end if the lantern was left somewhere out of a draught. If we were carrying the lantern around on a string hoop it would spill itself out almost straight away.
A cut down long candle stayed lit better but burned down quicker (and burned the lid more too)
Perfect, and thank you.
19.10.2025 17:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Always getting a blister on my palms, and really sore hands, hollowing out a turnip with a blunt spoon. And the smell of scorched turnip when the little nightlight inside burned the lid.
We did turnip lanterns for Bonfire Night, Hallowe'en wasn't celebrated where I was little
The penguins do not deserve Prince Nonce being dumped upon them.
Can I suggest one of the really low-lying coral atolls in the Pacific?
C.S. Lewis with a pragmatic and courageous perspective for us all.
18.10.2025 13:22 โ ๐ 518 ๐ 116 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 5We can but hope.
Mind you, JRRT was very keen on hope.
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
17.10.2025 17:43 โ ๐ 50192 ๐ 10331 ๐ฌ 1822 ๐ 776Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials title card
Episode 179: WITCHCRAFT - A HISTORY IN 13 TRIALS
Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-179.... or on your podcast app
or watch the interview on my YouTube channel at youtu.be/9pmAeCTqdtI and subscribe for future video releases.
@witchesetc.bsky.social returns to the Folklore Podcast!
Donโt forget this online talk which Iโm hosting on Saturday. Still time to book โฆ
15.10.2025 14:03 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1And I've just signed up for the two oncoming lectures too.
16.10.2025 10:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I've had a bit on. But I'm lurking in the corners...
16.10.2025 09:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.
๐ New Absolute Units ๐
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
A great line up as usual here from @alexdavis1981.bsky.social
Iโm just finishing reading Michelle Paverโs new ghost story novel Rainforest.
Having met and interviewed Michelle before, it still amazes me how much creeping dread can come from one such lovely lady!
It's always the quiet ones...
16.10.2025 09:47 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ the tv โnewsโ
and โnewsโpapers
still think they can influence us.
The public now have other options and the #Left in England are focusing their efforts into one party.
Finally the Greens in England have stepped up, announced their socialist stance, and the #Left are joining, in increasing numbers.
Gorgeous fabric and making.
I made my own clothes, and made a fabulous shirt for my OH from dragon-printed fabric, with contrast facings. Again, people do ask me to make them one, and are always horrified that I have the cheek to not only want them to pay for the fabric, but for my time too!!!
HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.
HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."
HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.
The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.
It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
โ Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
โ Against raising the minimum wage
โ Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
The books are a bit dated now, but she was up to date with the archaeology of the time, and her retelling of the whole Arthurian cycle is so evocative and perfectly plausible. With parts that send a shiver of recognition or magic down the back.
15.10.2025 07:09 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0There's a lovely passage in one of the Mary Stewart Merlin books where Merlin rides past and talks to an old cattle-herder, who 'remembers' seeing the old king and his warriors ride out, centuries ago. Which prompts Merlin and Arthur to rebuild the long-abandoned fort here.
15.10.2025 06:32 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A photo of a satyr dancing, they've got one arm above their head showing off a lovely armpit
Thinking of starting a new #MuseumBums subscription service #MuseumPits... Who's in? ๐๐๏ธ๐ช
Dancing Satyr by Antonio Frilli, from the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social, Florence ๐ฎ๐น
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Perfect!
13.10.2025 21:09 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I joined a while ago to vote for Zack, and this actually feels like it could fo something.
13.10.2025 20:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Always love a bit of #AtkinsonGrimshaw
13.10.2025 20:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hand-knitted sock in progress, broken wooden needles pulled out.
Puppy lying on her back like a starfish.
Scotia, despite looking as if butter wouldn't melt, is not safe around #knitting. I haven't tested her on other crafts yet. I left the room for a moment and she grabbed it!
(Yes, I found all the pieces. The socks now on metal dpns)
Looks like the cover of a Twilight-type book...
13.10.2025 16:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hurray! Always hugely fun.
13.10.2025 13:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0