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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2h

Waking up to a Carnyx 🐗📢 The talented Letty Stott playing a Carnyx last night alongside the sacred waters of Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake, Ynys Mon/Anglesey 🎶😮 Have a great Sunday everyone 🍻 🎥 My own - volume up!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

'Hedgehog in a Landscape' by Giovanna Garzoni, 1643-1651, Italian painter #Womensart #AutumnWeek 🍂

Painting featuring a hedgehog on brown ground facing left next to sone oak leaves, a snail and two chestnuts

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1h

We all need a timeline cleanse, so here is the most adorable #chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century. Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷️ me

A carved chess piece representing a knight, depicted in an abstract, stylized form with a triangular head, amd wide circular eyes,. The figure has a hunched, cylindrical body and is displayed on a dark surface with an other game pieces and a die nearby.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 16h

“Come,” said the Wind to the Leaves one day. "Come over the meadow and we will play. Put on your dresses of red and gold. For summer is gone and the days grow cold." 'An #Autumn greeting' by George Cooper #BookwormSat 🌬️🍂 🎨 Franklin Booth, 1911

Painting of three young women riding a swing joyfully. They are wearing orange dresses that resemble October leaves.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 4h

"The chief charges against her were (1) that she was dead, and therefore could not hold any property; (2) that she was a woman which amounts to much the same thing" Virginia Woolf's "Orlando: A Biography" was first published #otd 1928 🎨 Cornelius Nuie "Orlando as a boy" (c 1635)

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 3h

This gilt bronze head portrays Sulis Minerva, the cult goddess for the Roman site at Aqua Sulis (modern Bath). It is very rare for such a precious item to be found anywhere but especially in England so we’re lucky. It was unearthed in 1727 and probably dates to C1st AD. 🏛️📷 Bath Roman Museum

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

Mitjili Napurrula is an Indigenous Australian painter from the Northern Territories #WomensArt

Colourful painting with stylised repeated leaf morifs, dots and orher significant forms on a white background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

Maria Martinez (1887–1980), world-renowned Native American ceramic artist from the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico #WomensArt

Black vase with serpent motif, all against a white background

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12h

Goodnight from The Lamb Hotel, where David Steed haunts the bar in hope of meeting the brass-eyed man. Goodnight from Ronnie Hart, desperately scrabbling in the glove box of his Vauxhall Chevette for anything to help him escape a place that’s not any map. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · 3h

The Tide Mill at Woodbridge in Suffolk is reputed to be haunted. Visitors have reported the sound of footsteps or a solitary figure standing by the sluice gates.The haunting is linked to a fatal accident on December 6, 1870 involving the young miller,William Bacon. #SpookySunday

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Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 23h

“…there comes to me the sharp picture of New York at its best, on a shiny blue-and-white Autumn day with its buildings cut diagonally in halves of light and shadow, with its straight neat avenues colored with quick throngs, like confetti in a breeze.” Dorothy Parker, “My Home Town” 1928 #BookWormSat

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 17h

Cormorant, slick conjuror of the water, spotted fishing on the river. Day made, love cormorants.

Photo of cormorant just risen from river.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 17h

"The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere— The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year;" (Edgar Allan Poe "Ulalume") 🎨 Edmund Dulac #Bookwormsat

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

'The Pond' by Dee Nickerson contemporary English painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #Womensart

Painting featuring a woman and her cat standing next to a pond surrounded by trees as birds fly overhead

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

The work of Pollyanna Johnson, contemporary ceramics artist #WomensArt

White plate with blue painting of the upper half of a historic white woman bordered by the words 'Cheer Up Love'

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 19h

#SpookySunday tomorrow so please do feel free to join the feed. Use the hashtag to contribute posts on all things ghostly: #folklore, fiction, poetry, art, info on haunted locations and #ghosts in popular culture. I'm looking forward to another day of phantom fun! #31DaysOfHalloween #ghost

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 19h

Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves! Humbert Wolfe P.L.M." (Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains) 📷 Peter Meade #BookWormSat

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 21h

‘Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.’ ~ Albert Camus. @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of an autumnal #BookWormSat 🖼️ Ellen Robbins

Painting of a variety of Autumn leaves on a stone wall with trees in the background.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 22h

Some rarely seen VanGoghs collected by artist Gustave Fayet highlighted here - though exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton also features many more creations by artists of the avant garde of the time, including Fayet's own. Tempted to hop on a train.... www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/09/l...

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A Louis Vuitton foundation exhibition, with ten Van Gogh paintings, reveals the extraordinary vision of an early collector

Artist and collector Gustave Fayet is honoured as a bold pioneer of Modern art in the Paris show

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 20h

#BookWormSat "To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year. Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down as we passed ..." Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 22h

'Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we still have to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.' THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR Arthur Conan Doyle (1892) #BookWormSat 💙📚

Sherlock Holmes plays the violin for Watson

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 23h

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." George Eliot's Letter to Miss Lewis, October 1, 1841 🎨 Alfred Stevens 'Autumn' (1876) #BookWormSat

Dark haired woman, with dark eyes and eyebrows and pale skin stands in front of autumn trees. She has a pensive expression & has a book tucked under one arm. Her bronze clothing and gold jewellery is echoic of the colours of the autumn leaves framing her

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Paul @pmf-englishteacher.bsky.social · 23h

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 #BookWormSat

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Massive Flock of Birds Explodes from Tree

ALT: Massive Flock of Birds Explodes from Tree

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 10/10/2026

Curious about 2026 literature laureate Anne Carson but unsure which of her books to pick up first? Check out some recommendations shared by Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy: www.nobelprize.org/what-to-read-ann… Happy Sunday reading!

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Book tips for Anne Carson

Read the book recommendations for 2026 literature laureate Anne Carson.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Owl of the Day: Spotted Wood-Owl

Photo of owl perched on a branch. Description from ebird: ‘Large owl with an orange face and big inky-black eyes. Adult is brown with extensive thin barring on the underparts. Juvenile is whitish, with barring all over the body. The closely related Brown Wood-Owl is much darker in adult plumage, with a thinly barred brown breast, and its juvenile plumage is whiter, relatively unmarked, with a more contrastingly dark brown face. Spotted Wood-Owl prefers open forests, and can sometimes be seen on fairly conspicuous perches, even when roosting. Hoots loudly and sonorously, with pairs frequently duetting.’

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 23h

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ed is being as overly kind as he was when it wrote the foreword to ‘Hookland Fragments’. However, I have to agree, two of the stickers might be considered a little ‘spicy’.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 23h

"That season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling – that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness." (Jane Austen "Persuasion", 1817) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw (1874) #BookwormSat

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21h

Autumn comes to the ponds with a hope that Stay Belows will soon be at mud. Comes with fear that they aren't yet sleeping. – #DAKilory, 1982 #Autumn

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

'O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing' -Percy Bysshe Shelley @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat! 🍂 Victor Prouvé

A vision of autumn - painting of figures walking through autumn woods

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Chris Perera @chrispwriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Where did they go? Where the leaves go in autumn, Will said. Bran looked at him and seemed suddenly to relax; he grinned. There's poetic, now. Will laughed. It's true. Of course, the trouble with leaves is, they grow again... -Susan Cooper The Dark is Rising #BookWormSat 🎨 Albert Lorieux

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Joe McCartney @mccartneyjoe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“It seems very dark outside.” “There is a fog, Sir. If you will recollect, we are now in Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.” “Season of what?” “Mists, Sir, and mellow fruitfulness.” ~ The Code of the Woosters (1938), P. G. Wodehouse. #BookWormSat [🎨Herb Roese]

A police officer has fallen off his bike in the park, a lady in a yellow dress stands looking dismayed.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

an autumn eve - an hour of leisure in a fleeting life ✍️ Yosa Buson 🖌️ Utagawa Hiroshige, Wading Crane and Trailing Clover #BookWormSat #haiku #autumn

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved handle in the shape of a horse! 🐴 ❤️ New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The remains of a late 4th century Romano-British temple which was built within the Iron-Age hillfort at Maiden Castle in Dorset. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #MaidenCastle #Dorset

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Book Cover of the Day:

Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses, Edward Gorey cover of dancing cat under full moon and woman in long dress.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"...autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling." -Persuasion #JaneAusten #BookWormSat

"Autumn" (1871), oil painting by Scottish painter Sir William Quiller Orchardson. A young woman is carrying apples using the hem of her white dress. A rustic building, trees, and autumn leaves can be seen in the background.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

‘The smoke's smell, too, Flowing from where a bonfire burns The dead, the waste, the dangerous, And all to sweetness turns. It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth, While the robin sings over again Sad songs of Autumn mirth.’ Digging, Edward Thomas. #BookWormSat 🍂🍁

🖼️ Nikolai Astrup, c.1920. Painting of bonfire surrounded by people billowing with smoke into the surrounding hills and landscape.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"My birthday began with the water birds And the birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses. And I rose in rainy autumn, And walked abroad in a shower of all my days." - Dylan Thomas, "A Poem in October" #BookWormSat

Photo of an autumn day with fiery leaves reflected in the water

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low on the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. Elizabeth Gaskell North and South #BookWormSat 🎨 Mary Cassatt

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Petra Pavlíková @elsinor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#BookWormSat "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" ~John Keats

Picture taken by me shows a misty forest with a birch on the front left.

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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There came a day that caught the summer Wrung its neck Plucked it And ate it Now what shall I do with the trees? The day said, the day said. Strip them bare, strip them bare. Let’s see what is really there. … There came this day and he was autumn… There came a day Ted Hughes #BookWormSat 🍂 🖼️ Klimt

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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. … They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth.... Such are the autumn people. Beware of them." Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury #BookWormSat 🎃 🖼️ Van Gogh

Van Gogh Avenue of Poplars in Autumn 1884

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The second is this book that I bought a week ago and haven’t read yet so this is just a new book post. I know I will love it as I love all the @hookland.bsky.social posts and have always followed them. They speak to me so have no doubt this book will too.

HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS
Volume One
David Southwell
Photo of cover

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Goodnight from the Red House Transport Cafe, where Sadie Stowen is finding out the going rate for her soul. Goodnight from the boot boys under Brighthaven Pier, suddenly realising that they aren’t tooled up enough for a ruck with what’s emerging from the sea. Goodnight from Hookland.

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