Joy Parry

For those who celebrate, yesterday/today is Imbolc - the beginning of Celtic Spring and the time that Dragons traditionally emerge from their Winter hibernation ... lighter [and hopefully] warmer days on the way ...

#Imbolc
🎨 dragonthornart [@DeviantArt]

#ShakespeareSunday

"Yield not thy neck
To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
Still ride in triumph over all mischance."

Henry VI
🎨 Eugène Delacroix

#ShakespeareSunday

"I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me;
to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir
from this place, do what they can: I will walk up
and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear
I am not afraid."

A Midsummer Night's Dream
🎨Arthur Rackham

#ShakespeareSunday

"... So shall inferior eyes
That borrow their behaviours from the great,
Grow great by your example, and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution."

King John
🎨Chris Cole [Boudica]

#ShakespeareSunday

"Then he will strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day."

Henry V
#LestWeForget

#FolkloreSunday

"A seed neither fears light nor darkness, but uses both to grow."

Matshona Dhliwayo
🎨dragonthornart [@DeviantArt] #Imbolc

#BookWormSat

"I have been in many shapes
Before achieving this convenient form ...
I have been a drop in the air,
I have been a shining star,
I have been a word in a book ..."

The Red Book Hergest
🎨Tim White

#BookWormSat

"Waves will break over stones,
Land conquered by the sea.
[There will be] no slope nor valley,
No hill nor hollows,
Nor shelter when it freezes
And the wind grows angry.”

The Book of Taliesin [widely believed to have originated from much older oral poems]
🎨Alan Lee

#BookWormSat

"Keen is the gale, hare the hill,
It is difficult to find shelter;
The fjord is turbid, frozen is the lake ...

Let the snow fall in deposits
Warriors will not leave their duty;
Cold are the lakes without the appearance of warmth ..."

The Black Book of Carmarthen
🎨Jim Fitzpatrick

#WyrdWednesday
Deaths & disappearances were fairly common in the remote wilderness of Nahanni National Park [Canada], but the discovery of four decapitated bodies between 1905 and 1945 - the heads were never found - led to one area becoming known as the "Valley of the Headless Men".
📷E J V'Kanty

#LegendaryWednesday
Greek nymph Chione [Khione] had the ability to control snow, ice and hail; she was the daughter of Boreas, who brought winter to the lands of Europe by sweeping down from the cold mountains of Thrace, chilling the air with his icy breath.
🎨Rick Riordon & S Atchill

#LegendaryWednesday

"[Lawrence Oates] slept through the night before last, hoping not to wake; but he woke in the morning. It was blowing a blizzard. He said, ‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’ He went out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since."
R F Scott
📷Herbert Ponting

#WyrdWednesday
The Honest Lawyer Pub [now closed] in Kings Lynn, Norfolk with its sign - a decapitated lawyer carrying his head under his arm ...
📷Hanla Franek

#WyrdWednesday
The beheading of St Edmund by the Vikings.
📷 Old Hunstanton, Norfolk - St Edmund's Chapel & Wolf Statue

#MythologyMonday
The dying King Arthur was taken away in a barge by three Queens - the Queen of Northgalis, the Queen of the Wastelands & his sister Morgan Le Fay - to Avalon where he was healed of his wounds ...
🎨William Henry Margetson

#ShakespeareSunday

"Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits."

All's Well That Ends Well
🎨Picasso

#FolkloreSunday

"Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all."

Oscar Wilde - The Soul of Man Under Socialism
🎨Lascaux Cave Artwork

#ShakespeareSunday

"A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets
As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
Disasters in the sun ..."

Hamlet
🎨Detlev Van Ravenswaay - Science Photo Library

Very impactful from The British Ironworks Centre ...

#ShakespeareSunday

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and a friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

Hamlet
🎨Marinus Van Reymerswaele

I'll have to watch it - my son's girlfriend is from Sydney and she was talking about Rosaleen Norton at Christmas - apparently her artwork was part of an exhibition that was touring in Australian in the mid 2010s that she went to.

#FolkloreSunday

"There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write."

Terry Pratchett
🎨Leonid Pasternak - The Passion of Creation

#ShakespeareSunday

"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes."

MacBeth
📷Kerem Yucel - #Minneapolis #ICE

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (25th January) was at 7.54am, sunset is at 4.45pm

Glad they were in a box ... 😬

#BookWormSat

"You can have as much earth as you want," he said. You remind me of someone else who loved the earth and things that grow. When you see a bit of earth you want," with something like a smile, "take it, child, and make it come alive."

F Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

🎨 Inga Moore

#BookWormSat

Beautiful ♥️

Starmer says Trump's claim UK troops stayed off Afghan frontline 'insulting and frankly appalling' The mother of a veteran who suffered horrific injuries condemns the US president's comments as "the ultimate insult".

Starmer finally standing up and calling Trump out - good to see Labour, Conservatives & Liberal Democrats all in agreement on this ...
#Afghanistan
news.sky.com/story/trump-...

This definitely reflects the majority of public opinion in Britain - however the government seems loathe to comment - Emily Thornberry aside. Calling the remarks "disappointing" is not good enough ... Downing Street needs to call Trump out for the ignorant liar that he is.
#Afghanistan