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Bob Fry

@bobfry.bsky.social
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Overly fond of oolite, stars, folklore, photography, beetroot, fossils & other old things (& The Fall). All photographs my own, unless stated or reposted. Not the light! Not the light! IS IT BIN DAY?

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 2h
A wonderful film. This scene always moves me to tears. A Canterbury Tale
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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 3h
"Listen!" Beowulf on Steorarume, 2000 Benjamin Slade 🇺🇸
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 5h
Re-introducing a Hookland childhood nightmare/beloved icon. Mr. Lookout – the ghost bear mascot of the Hookland Tourist Board's 'I-See! series of books'. The scarrer of many a child's imaginations as depicted by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. #MrLookout #Hookland
A ghost bear. A big, fat ghost bear. Wearing spectacles, holding what appears to be a bone wand. Trust me, it is one scary bear. The text says: Mr. Lookout
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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · 5h
First up from issue 1 on the Wyrd Daze blog: the fabulous fae art of Helena Ekroth wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Rambling Idiot @ramblingidiot.bsky.social · 6h
The Trickster. Look at the details on this beauty. #fox #foxoftheday
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Johnny Nice Painter @ Eurosky! @johnnynicepainter.eurosky.social · 6h
An absolutely bonkers sunflower grown by Mrs N-P. Look at that sky too. You wouldn't think it's the last knockings of September in central England. #BloomScroll #BloomScrolling
A vibrant orange sunflower is centre picture. Another smaller out-of-focus sunflower is at the top left behing it. They are both against a blue sky with a couple of very whispy clouds.
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 6h
One of my favourite films. It’s preposterous & melodramatic but nonetheless brilliant. Just look at the Cast List Stanley Baker Herbert Lom Peggy Cummins Patrick McGoohan William Hartnell Sid James Jill Ireland Alfie Bass Gordon Jackson David McCallum Sean Connery youtu.be/MrcgJPMSqac?...
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"Hell Drivers" (1957) Trailer
YouTube video by AdinaZed's Movie Trailers
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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 9h
'Top of the Entry (Ogden Road)' Charcoal & Varnish www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/blog/thehigh... The photograph below is Ogden Road, from Regent Road; I've always had a fascination with it. A local writer described 'workers houses cheek by jowl with the factories' and this is the situation in actuality!
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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 7h
#WyrdWednesday In 1856 it was reported that during construction of a railway tunnel in France a fearsome creature emerged alive from within a hollow in the rock, before expiring shortly after. It had a long neck, sharp teeth and membranous wings. A naturalist identified is a Pterodactylus anas...
Vintage iIllustration of a pterodactyl flying over vegetation. On the ground just in front is a smaller pterodactyl.

From Paris avant les hommes [Paris Before Man], written and illustrated by Pierre Boitard, 1861, after Théodore Susemihl, 1836
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 7h
No matter when you are from, there’s always a welcome in the Green Man at Willerby
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 9h
Whilst out and about and cake-bothering booksellers, I saw my first Hookland sticker out in the wild.
A Hookland sticker on a pipe covering up some fascistic filth. The sticker reads: HERNE THE HUNTER HATES YOUR RACIST BOLLOCKS
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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 9h
"Lo!" Beowulf: The Oldest English Epic translated into Alliterative Verse, 1940 Charles W. Kennedy 🇺🇸
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 11h
What about this one @afigure.bsky.social ? youtu.be/I2ldtKJbNQQ
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Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 11h
That Colin, eh? He's a bit of a lad :-)
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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 13h
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Pete Glastonbury @peteglastonbury.bsky.social · 13h
Moon setting on 30th September 2026
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15h
An unemployed youth in his room, Liverpool, March 1957, by Bert Hardy, Picture Post photographer.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 15h
The old willow-tree, and other stories, Carl Ewald, Illustration by Helen Jacobs, 1921.
Bear sat by river beneath a tree in autumn leaf, fungi around the base of a tree. Illustration.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 15h
Morning. 🖼️ Tunnicliffe, What To Look For In Autumn, 1960.
Autumnal forest floor scene of leaves, red squirrel, fungi, nuts, jay in flight in distance and thrush, falling leaves, illustration.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 16h
If you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday
Aerial photo looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with circular stone broch on the left and trees beyond
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 15h
“Extracts from National Highways report 1727a, subject M5 Interchange, author redacted, UK Home Office eyes only...” ‘The Interchange' is a story in the form of an official road infrastructure report and, people seem to agree, one of the standouts in this collection.
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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 15h
"Now" Beowulf: An Imitative Translation, 1988 Ruth P. M. Lehmann 🇺🇸
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 17h
#WyrdWednesday The Valley of the Gwangi (1969) “Professor, there’s a big lizard back there and he’s heading this way. Now get aboard!” Produced by Charles H Schneer & Ray Harryhausen youtu.be/6YX5TqsfP88
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The Valley of Gwangi (1969) Original Trailer [FHD]
YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers
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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 21h
"Hear" The hero in the earthly city: a reading of Beowulf, 1984 Bernard Felix Huppé 🇺🇸
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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sundew and Butterwort from Anton Kerner von Marilaun's The Natural History of Plants 1894
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When cake decoration meant: 'half a glacé cherry and put them on a doily' #GBBO Cooking With Mother (1977)
Photograph of a plate with doily and a group of simple sponge cakes -each with half a cherry on top 
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"On the beach on the leeward side, little field-mice ran backwards and forwards at the edge of the water, the sand slipping away from under their paws. Boulders turned over heavily, revealing the pale roots of the sea pinks. At dawn the island slept. The trees had reached the lighthouse-rock..."
A photo of the 2009 Puffin edition of Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson. The cover art is by the author.
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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 29/09/2026
"Listen!" Beowulf, 2011 Craig Williamson 🇺🇸
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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you'd like to bury yourself in essays charting seasonal change, our 2023 book 'Nature's Calendar' is for you. Not your thing? Then our 2026 book 'The Ritual Year' is an almanac of British customs and rituals, old and new, weird, funny & fascinating. After all, Christmas is coming...😄
Cover of pale yellow book with title in gold and numerous black and white sketches of animals, insects and plants, including a dragonfly, a swallow, a frog, and fern frond and a robin.White-yellow cover of book with title in black, and four gold phases of the moon at each corner; Also four black and white sketches under the gold moons, of hawthorn blossom, a deer's antlers and skull, a running hare and part of Stonehenge.
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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Mystery & The Dandelions' Oil Paint www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/blog/terraat... Where did the Summer go?
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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 29/09/2026
"HEY now hear" Beowulf: A Translation, 2012 Thomas Meyer 🇬🇧
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Superb theme tune & opening credits. Friday night tv viewing when I was a very young Bob Fry
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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New item up on the store, a perfect gift for harvest time. Music and hand stitched item from @taliskimberley.bsky.social and art inspired by the music from me. thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/corn...
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Corn Jenny gift set, price includes UK shipping.
A set of gifts from harvest time. The CD album Cloth of Gold by Talis Kimberley which includes the song Corn Jenny, A lovingly hand stitched Corn Jenny ornament made by Talis and an A4 signed print fr...
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Classic science fiction paperback (from 1967). Superb cover art by Jack Gaughan.
The cover of the Ace edition of 

THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION
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SAMUEL R. DELANY

A human-like figure confronts a red minotaur on a spaceship. 1960’s versions of computers - flashing lights & magnetic tape spools - are in the background.
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michaelmas Daises for Michaelmas
A clump of Michaelmas daises. Lavender coloured petals around a yellow centre.
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Teasels - the attractor of the charms await the flock. #Wildflowers #Goldfinches
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🖤Corvids
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Plane Tree, Woburn Square #AOfoto
Colour photograph. A section of the thick mottled trunk of a plane tree set against geometric shapes of building facades and a patch of blue sky.
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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 29/09/2026
"Yes" Beowulf: An Interlinear Translation, 1970 Thomas McLeod 🇺🇸
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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 29/09/2026
"List" Beowulf, 1910 John Duncan Spaeth 🇺🇸
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Hwæt! @hwaet.info · 28/09/2026
"Voilà" Le poème anglo-saxon de Beowulf, 1912 Hubert Pierquin 🇫🇷
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you again Radio Lento for finding me just the sounds I need.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Goodnight. Moon Lake, Kent Ambler.
Woodcut of full moon in cloudy sky over lake with trees in background.
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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Marilyn Owl' Homage to Andy Warhol and all owls #OwlishMonday 🤍
Four squares featuring the same portrait of a barn owl looking out at the viewer in different colour combinations. Top left: purple on yellow orange. Top right: red on light blue. Bottom left: pink on light blue-turquoise. Bottom right: dark green on light pink. Linocut, Maria Strutz
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beech plantation
A high contrast b&w photograph. A lane leads toward a clump of leafless beech trees under a bright sun. The wet surface of the asphalt gleams. Three power lines cross the top of the frame.
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've finally sourced enough acorns to bring the Jays to the camera regularly. However in the mind of the Jay, not all acorns are equal. The largest green ones are taken promptly but there's a careful inspection regime after that, with a high rejection rate of the suboptimal. #Corvids #OakTrees 🦉🌿
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Blakes 7 - Rescue (28th September 1981). The first story of Series D features an off-screen death (Cally), a new arrival (Soolin) and Dorian who (of course) isn't all he appears to be.
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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
“When it draws near to witching time of night” (Robert Blair) 🎨 Holls Walck #owlishmonday
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I like hornbeams, me.
A photograph of the papery star shaped seeds of a hornbeam tree surrounded by leaves
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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's an OOwlish LOOK from another antique Little OOwl #OwlishMonday
Little Owl, Copper Plate engraving, 1790's
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