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Anne Louise Avery

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social
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Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Oxford & Dorset. Linktree: linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'Reynard the Fox' by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social is a tour de force. I'd go so far as to say that it is a unique reading experience. Nowhere else have I found such verve, such nerve, such artfulness, such artistry. theunhurriedreader.substack.com/p/the-origin...
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The original fox for all seasons
Reynard the Fox by Anne Louise Avery
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Leina @bowsette.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have this in both hardback and audiobook formats, and it's absolutely wonderful. Highly recommended. 🩷💙
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I recommend this highly. I was utterly be-foxed! (And don't forget that Blackwell's offer free international shipping.)
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Steve Batty @stevebatty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One of the best tales you'll ever read.
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Breneke @breneke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a wonderful, magical book! Perfect for those chilly evenings when you just want to cuddle up under a blanket and be transported to another world. It would also make a great Christmas gift, if you're thinking about that already! 🤎 🦊
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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's a brilliant book 👇🐾🦊
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Aloysius Olberding @aloysiuso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's a rollicking good read and a perfect gift for your favorite book lover!
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A marvelous book, highly recommended:
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🦊 🍁Need a cosy autumnal read? Why not buy a copy of my epic retelling of Reynard the Fox? Marina Warner called it "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling" & the Wall Journal "a tour de force of storytelling." Buy here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... and here amazon.co.uk/dp/1851245553/
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-nine: Sending Apples to Whitehall" #OldFoxCommunity (Old Fox, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Permanent Secretary) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-nine: Sending Apples to Whitehall | Anne Louise Avery
Every Michaelmas morning, without fail, Old Fox would send a crate of precisely one hundred and one apples from his orchard up to London on
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dawn and the first latchet of heavy light was seeping over the downs.
Along the quiet chalk lanes and the old Roman roads, edged with teasels and burnt dock and tall purple daisies, came the Newcomer.
A fox of the North wind, teller of tales, righter of wrongs, bringer of deep autumn and the golden tide of the high angels of harvest.
His wagon was gold too, and the clear blue of September skies and the startling red of rose hips.
Above him, the hawks cried and made their circles, tours known to heaven, as old as the earth.
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-eight: Composing Poetry by the Sea" #OldFoxCommunity (Ermine) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-eight: Composing Poetry by the Sea | Anne Louise Avery
Michaelmas Eve and a brisk northeasterly was scouring the sky and scattering leaves in Ermine's garden. The clouds were moving like a fleet
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-seven: Welcoming the Newcomer." #OldFoxCommunity (The Newcomer) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-seven: Welcoming the Newcomer. | Anne Louise Avery
Dawn and the first latchet of heavy light was seeping over the downs. Along the quiet chalk lanes and the old Roman roads, edged with tease
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dawn and the first latchet of heavy light was seeping over the downs.
Along the quiet chalk lanes and the old Roman roads, edged with teasels and burnt dock and tall purple daisies, came the Newcomer.
A fox of the North wind, teller of tales, righter of wrongs, bringer of deep autumn and the golden tide of the high angels of harvest.
His wagon was gold too, and the clear blue of September skies and the startling red of rose hips.
Above him, the hawks cried and made their circles, tours known to heaven, as old as the earth.
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🍁🐉 Please join my patreon & support a writer! Only the price of a cup of chocolate! Daily stories & recipes & a magnificent archive! Today, for example, learn how to make the "Dragon of Kensington Church Street's Restorative Soup for Colds and Influenza." 🐉 🍁https://patreon.com/c/annelouiseavery
The Dragon of Kensington Church Street
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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We could all use the dragon's restorative soup--tis the season, and a perfect time to join all of us who gather at Anne's patreon for glimpses into a most delightful world. You will love it!
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-five: Making the Dragon of Kensington Church Street's Restorative Soup for Colds and Influenza" #OldFoxCommunity (Dragon of Kensington Church Street) www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-five: Making the Dragon of Kensington Church Street's Restorative Soup for Colds and Influenza | Anne Louise Avery
The Dragon had caught a terrible cold. He knew exactly from whom - a very small rabbit who had sneezed over him in the typewriter department
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every single day is a good day to support Anne - join her Patreon, send her Ko-fi, buy from her etsy store. She's created a wonderful caring world for us to visit when the evils of this one become overwhelming all while in cancer treatment & raising a teenager.
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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anne Louise writes quite wonderfully and her pieces are a beautiful antidote to the unfocused negativity that pervades so much of public debate. Entertaining, amusing, moving, intriguing, she is always refreshing. Do enjoy her work and sponsor her if you possible can.
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social publishes such generously long stories in her Patreon, stories that invite slow and luxuriant reading—an absolute treat in our chaotic clickbait world. Why not treat yourself and join a lovely community of patrons?
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🍁🐉 Please join my patreon & support a writer! Only the price of a cup of chocolate! Daily stories & recipes & a magnificent archive! Today, for example, learn how to make the "Dragon of Kensington Church Street's Restorative Soup for Colds and Influenza." 🐉 🍁https://patreon.com/c/annelouiseavery
The Dragon of Kensington Church Street
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-four: Pressing an Album of Autumn Leaves" #OldFoxCommunity (Dragon of Kensington Church Street) Today is a goo day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-four: Pressing an Album of Autumn Leaves | Anne Louise Avery
It was a beautiful, golden morning in the September of 1912 and the Dragon of Kensington Church Street was walking to Harrods to buy an albu
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-three: An Equinoxial Supper" #OldFoxCommunity (Old Fox & family) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-three: An Equinoxial Supper | Anne Louise Avery
The Equinox had fallen on a day of such beauty and unexpected sunshine that Old Fox had set up the long trestle table in the garden for an e
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-two: Observing Evenlength" #OldFoxCommunity (Wolf, the Doctor) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-two: Observing Evenlength | Anne Louise Avery
Five and twenty past six, and Wolf & the Doctor were tramping along Flemish Lane, where the ground was scattered with crab apples and the ta
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pie, anyone? There are lots of fantastic recipes—for savouries, for sweet treats, and for living—on @annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon.
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Isn't this gorgeous? 🍁 #ForSale #ToyoharaKunichika #JapaneseWoodblock
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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Finally got this fabulous image framed. From the strange but beautiful Shell Guide to the Countryside. Thank you @annelouiseavery.bsky.social
Shell Guide to Monmouthshire. Poster collage of Monmouth sights and text. Close up of same image with chapel, gravestones and flowers. Lots of dark green, black and white
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A delightful tale and a lovely recipe. Anne gives us these blessings while in cancer treatment & raising a teenager. B/c of treatment side effects Patreon IS her stable income. Today is a very good day to join. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026
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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely perfect autumnal pie! 🧡
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🍁For sale! A beautiful and very autumnal original woodblock print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). Published in 1865. Only £110! Dm to buy! Or go straight to my etsy here: etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
For sale! A beautiful and very autumnal original woodblock print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). Published in 1865. Only £110! Dm to buy! Or go straight to my etsy here: https://etsy.com/uk/listing/4579669779/toyohara-kunichika-1835-1900-a
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🍂 Today on my patreon, Number Twenty-one of Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September: Baking an Equinoxial Pie! Join for this and thousands of other stories and recipes! Help a starving writer and feed your soul! www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🍂 Today on my patreon, Number Twenty-one of Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September: Baking an Equinoxial Pie! Join for this and thousands of other stories and recipes! Help a starving writer and feed your soul! www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🍁For sale! A beautiful and very autumnal original woodblock print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). Published in 1865. Only £110! Dm to buy! Or go straight to my etsy here: etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
For sale! A beautiful and very autumnal original woodblock print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). Published in 1865. Only £110! Dm to buy! Or go straight to my etsy here: https://etsy.com/uk/listing/4579669779/toyohara-kunichika-1835-1900-a
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🍁For sale! A beautiful and very autumnal original woodblock print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). Published in 1865. Only £110! Dm to buy! Or go straight to my etsy here: etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
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Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). A Momijigari Scene Depicting a Court Lady Admiring Autumn Leaves. Original Japanese Woodblock Print of 1865. - Etsy UK
This Wood & Linocut Prints item is sold by SourisdesMoissons. Dispatched from United Kingdom. Listed on 21 Sept, 2026
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty: Visiting a Delightful Bookshop" #OldFoxCommunity (The Bishop, Bear, Tabby Cat & her bookshop) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty: Visiting a Delightful Bookshop | Anne Louise Avery
Whenever the Bishop of Dorchester visited Canterbury, after fulfilling his episcopal duties (taking Mattins and Evensong, pilgrimages to vis
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-one: Baking an Equinoxial Pie" #OldFoxCommunity (Wolf, Pine Marten, Old Fox) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-one: Baking an Equinoxial Pie | Anne Louise Avery
It was nearing the Autumn Equinox and there was a storm coming, a "terrific gale" declared The Times, and Old Fox had spent the morning batt
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🍁For sale! A beautiful and very autumnal original woodblock print by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). Published in 1865. Only £110! Dm to buy! Or go straight to my etsy here: etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
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Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). A Momijigari Scene Depicting a Court Lady Admiring Autumn Leaves. Original Japanese Woodblock Print of 1865. - Etsy UK
This Wood & Linocut Prints item is sold by SourisdesMoissons. Dispatched from United Kingdom. Listed on 21 Sept, 2026
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#ForSale #Postcards #Egypt #India #Ephemera #1900s
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For sale! Hundreds of postcards newly posted on my Etsy shop, including rare early 1900s scenes of Egypt and India. Link here: sourisdesmoissons.etsy.com
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For sale! Hundreds of postcards newly posted on my Etsy shop, including rare early 1900s scenes of Egypt and India. Link here: sourisdesmoissons.etsy.com
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can definitely see Old Fox serving Smoking Bishop in this @annelouiseavery.bsky.social xx
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My darling mother xxxxxx
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Fifteen: Arranging Michaelmas Daisies" #OldFoxCommunity (Old Fox, Grey Brock) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Fifteen: Arranging Michaelmas Daisies | Anne Louise Avery
Michaelmas daisies were one of Old Fox's favourite flowers, and he grew an abundance of them in the cottage gardens, arranging them in lovel
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Sixteen: Converse with a Harry-Long-Legs" #OldFoxCommunity (Old Fox, a Harry-Long-Legs) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Sixteen: Converse with a Harry-Long-Legs | Anne Louise Avery
Old Fox was sitting in the parlour deep in conversation with one of the many Harry-Long-Legs who liked to camp out in the cottage over the a
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Fourteen: A Medicinal Hot Chocolate" #OldFoxCommunity (Madame Mouse) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Fourteen: A Medicinal Hot Chocolate | Anne Louise Avery
Once upon a time, in the glittering years of the Belle Epoque, when she was young and idealistic and living in Paris, Mouse’s Mother had a t
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As we made our way home along a Dorset seaside bramble-way after a very long walk, this magnificent fellow suddenly greeted us from the ferns! Such an honour! 🦌
A stag midst autumn ferns
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As we made our way home along a Dorset seaside bramble-way after a very long walk, this magnificent fellow suddenly greeted us from the ferns! Such an honour! 🦌
A stag midst autumn ferns
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A Ko-fi is a lovely thank you for all the lovely tales Anne creates. She's doing this creative work while in cancer treatment AND raising a teenager. So maybe a Ko-fi & join her Patreon as well. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Eleven. An Act of Remembrance." #OldFoxCommunity (Rev Lion, the Doctor, Little Girl's Aunt, Old Fox) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Eleven. An Act of Remembrance. | Anne Louise Avery
It was the September of 1934, and the Reverend Lion was holding a small service of remembrance. The date, a Friday, the 11th, held no partic
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twelve: The Times Crossword Puzzle" #OldFoxCommunity (Old Fox, Wolf) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...
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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twelve: The Times Crossword Puzzle | Anne Louise Avery
"Here's one for you, Wolf," said Old Fox, holding out the folded Times, "27 Down, 'Ship bearing Baltic Port,' seven letters." Wolf grabbed t
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