Mixed Messages

Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families.

How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

It was created by James Spedding and Roger Foyster at Holkham Forge from a design by Polly lonides of Norton parish.

👀 Church of St Margarets,
Burnham Norton, #Norfolk

Coronation Gate - King Charles III in 2023.

The dragon is from the story of St Margaret of Antioch. The dragon/Satan is transformed into a friend.

Thistle & marguerite are symbols for St Margaret of Scotland

#MetalworkThursday
#IronworkThursday

I did wonder if William pre-deceased or post-deceased his grandfather.

That itch scratched - d. 1880 aged 10 days
www.findagrave.com/memorial/201...

Next Saturday 7th of March Douglas Library.

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S̶p̶e̶c̶t̶e̶m̶u̶r̶ ̶A̶g̶e̶n̶d̶o̶

#SpectemurLibris
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A single-sitter

What would a career as a proofreader been like......??....

Shaking head in disagreement

A potential single-sitter

And no one followed him into the plot

#StoriesFromHeadstones

US/Israel unilaterally attack #Iran, blowing up negotiations, killing already 200+ people, Iran responds.

#EU official: 'Iran's unjustified attacks' must stop

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The shirt France will wear for the Six Nations clash against England to mark the 120th anniversary (almost to the day) of the first match between the two sides.

Oh my

Looks like the sun has gone well over the yardarm

#Cork

The Irish poet Charlie" Donnelly was killed yesterday 88 years ago on 27 February 1937 by a Francoist bullet at the battle of Jarama. A few minutes before, after a lull in the fierce fighting, he was heard uttering his last and now immortal lines "Even the olives are bleeding".

Pebbles carved with uncial letters in the aunshine

Chip chip...

Daniel Perry Sampson was the last man hanged in Halifax. Recently, evidence has been discovered that Sampson was FRAMED. A legal battle is underway to clear his name. You can learn more and contribute here:

fnd.us/DanielPSamps...

#AfricanHeritageMonth

Looks odd to see 'th' after 'xxviii'

Now wondering what latin for 'th' might be.........

‘The way we love them in life is the way we love them in death’: a Gullah Geechee community fights for their cemetery

In a win for the Gullah Geechee people on St Helena Island in South Carolina, access to a long-used cemetery has been restored

Like the stone art and stone offerings - if that is what they are

'Seeds & Manure'
Classic Irish shopfront, with shop door and private entrance. Kilrush, County Clare. #Ireland #shopfronts

I have been introduced to the word 'finer' as a noun

Dictionaries are of little help

​“Words are in dictionaries because they exist – they do not exist because they are in dictionaries” Máire Nic Mhaoláin

Well worth a listen to interview with Oliver Callan a few weeks back

Especially for those with interest in burials not permitted in cemetery and so carried out in back garden

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

More bikes than cars

#Cork

thinking of the time I told an engineer from Cork that such-and-such a thing was standard practice everywhere else and he replied

"I think you're forgetting the ABCD principle"

"What's the ABCD principle"

"Ah, But Cork is Different"

Sibh

Now the fencing is down just leave this space open & turn it into 24 hr access public park in Cork City centre
Space is ideal, & with historic public toilets reopened too, & next to the coolest part of the city; Coal Quay/River Lee/Popes Quay onto Shandon

#RestPlayWork #DerelictIreland

1939 was a leap year ......... in Mallow

#Cork #StoriesFromHeadstones #Speirghorm

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a horrific weekend on our roads and it's the result of policy, plain and simple

never mind hi-vis vests, the problem is the motor vehicles, the way they're driven, the speed at which they're driven, and the design of the roads and streets on which they're driven

Mrs. Doyle St Patrick's Cemetery, Rathvilly - 2026.02.17

Some stone carving spellings are easier to spot than others

#Rathvilly #Carlow #StoriesFromHeadstones

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