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#SpookySunday Always keen to "do different", one of Norfolk's ghostly offerings is a spectral Cow which haunts the village of South Lopham. Appearing in times of difficulty, the bovine hangs around to offer spiritual support, and disappears once things have returned to "normal" ...

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#ShakespeareSunday "O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall." "I kiss the wall’s hole, not your lips at all." ["Thus have I, Wall, my part dischargèd so, And, being done, thus Wall away doth go."] A Midsummer Night's Dream 📷 @the-rsc.bsky.social 2016

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#ShakespeareSunday Bottom, as Pyramus: "I see a voice! Now will I to the chink To spy an I can hear my Thisbe’s face. Thisbe?" A Midsummer Night's Dream 📷Paul McCartney & John Lennon [Around the Beatles, Wembley Park Studios]

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#ShakespeareSunday "Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love ..." Much Ado About Nothing 📷Furman S Baldwin

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#BookWormSat "The Hare gazed up lovingly at the full moon And heard someone whistle a wise, ancient tune - Of a time when true love was as real as the sky And when poor, earthbound fools like we mortals could fly ..." Loz Ramsey - The Hare and the Moon 🎨Jane Wilson

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#BookWormSat "Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?" "Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens." "I've got a message for you." "I'll give it to him." A A Milne - Winnie The Pooh 🎨Disney

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#BookWormSat "Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass and a hare sitting up." DH Lawrence - Women in Love 🎨 Sarah Cemmick

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#BookWormSat "I am a Hare, a beast of little strength, Yet making sport, of love and gentle gess [?]" George Gascoigne - The Noble Art of Hunting [1610]

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Netanyahu addresses a sparse audience at the UN to defend his actions in attempting to obliterate the Palestinian residents of Gaza and the West Bank .. while attacking everyone who doesn't support these actions by branding them as antisemitic ...

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday "Old pear tree starlings announce harvest time ..." Phil Noble 📷© Pat Bennett

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday #BookChatWeekly "Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone ..." Matsuo Basho 🎨19thC Autumn [Harvest] Moon, Ishiyama, Lake Biwa - Utagawa Hiroshige @metmuseum.org

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MythologyMonday Procrustes made visitors lay on his iron bed - victims shorter than the bed were hammered to stretch them, those longer than the bed had their legs cut off to make them fit. He was eventually killed on his own bed in the same way ... 🎨 Unknown Artist ©Museum of Fine Art Budapest

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MythologyMonday Cadair Idris performed the function of a chair for the giant Idris so that he could observe people going about their lives in the surrounding area ...

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Laurel & Hardy - Shine On Harvest Moon

#FolkloreSunday Laurel & Hardy's rendition of Shine On, Harvest Moon in the film Flying Deuces ... #HarvestMoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIw1...

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#ShakespeareSunday "For Summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute; Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer, That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near." Sonnet 97

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"Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill Service at Westminster Abbey today marked the 86th year since the Battle of Britain. #LestWeForget 😢 #BattleOfBritain

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#FolkloreSunday At Mabon - Alban Elfed - when the hours of light and darkness are equal, Welsh Dragons go into hibernation, spending the winter months below ground ... 🎨Marylin Nyborg * Keli Clark

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#BookWormSat "Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present." Leonardo da Vinci 🎨John Everett Millais

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#BookWormSat "An independent lady is an extraordinary prize - Although deprived of a man's favour, She is mistress of her very own hearth. Able to go to bed and get up when she chooses Without comment! Hold tight to your independence, Freedom is such a blessed thing." Anna Bijns - Unyoked Is Best

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#BookWormSat "Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche or large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe ..." Chaucer - Canterbury Tales [General Prologue]

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just spent the morning at the 2-Tone Village & Coventry Music Museum - it is an absolute gem, and the people there are so enthusiastic & knowledgeable. Wonderful 🖤 ▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️▫️▪️

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday When a lump of gold a Miser had buried for safe keeping is stolen, a neighbour tells him to bury any old stone there instead as "when the gold was there you never made the slightest use of it." Aesop - The Miser - Money's value is not in its possession, but in its use. 🎨Milo Winter

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sad that Sheeran is selling out Macklemore for $$$ - I would have expected better from him ...

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#MythologyMonday Sorceress Circe foretold that Odysseus' crew would all perish on their voyage, but she helped them pass the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis & Helios' Island. Zeus then destroyed the ship with a thunderbolt - with Odysseus the sole survivor - proving Circe right. 🎨L & R Garland * Jan Styka

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The first band that I had posters of in my room as an 11 year old ... somewhere in the loft there is a signed photo of them that I got through a teen magazine! 😀

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#FolkloreSunday Medieval writer Geoffrey of Monmouth was responsible for the idea that Merlin [Myrddin] created Stonehenge - using sorcery to move the huge stones from Ireland to their position on Salisbury Plain ... 🎨@britishlibrary.bsky.social [Egerton MS] & Jean-Noël Rochut

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#ShakespeareSunday "O Lord, methought what pain it was to drown, What dreadful noise of waters in my ears ..." Richard III 🎨Alfred Guillou

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#ShakespeareSunday "Speak low if you speak love ...." Much Ado About Nothing 🎨Frederic William Burton - Hellelil & Hildebrand [or The Meeting on the Turret Stair]

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I loved the Pink Panther in my youth! Happy Memories 😊

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#BookWormSat "To reach this place, the visitor has to penetrate through a maze of close, narrow, and muddy streets, thronged by the roughest and poorest of water-wide people ..." Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist © Mary Evans Picture Library

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#BookWormSat "... here [Milton] every van, every waggon and truck, bore cotton, either in the raw shape in bags, or the woven shape in bales of calico. People thronged the footpaths, most of them well-dressed as regarded the material ..." Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South 🎨Eyre Crowe

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remembering all those who died on 9/11 or as a result of those attacks, their families, friends and everyone else affected by the events of this day 25 years ago ... #NeverForget 😢

Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On 10th September 1959 The Crooked Mile opened at the Cambridge Theatre, London. The iconic Elisabeth Welch starred alongside Millicent Martin, Jack MacGowran and Elwyn Brooke-Jones in this musical about Soho gangs ... #TheatreThursday #OTD

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday "... a great and violent battle took place. It is told that Tryggvi hurled javelins with both hands at the same time ... in this battle he fell, together with many of his force. Some escaped by flight, others asked for quarter ..." Snorri Sturluson - Heimskringla 🎨Angus McBride

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Gene Kelly, Cary Grant, & Fred Astaire at Cannes in 1976. What a trio of talent.

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dozens of Muslim workers in the World trade Centre died during the 9/11 terrorist attacks as well as people of many other faiths. As Mayor of NYC, Mamdani would attend the ceremony representing all those impacted by this - of all faiths; I think it is disingenuous to bring religion into this.

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since 2009 UK Supermarket the Co-Op has not sourced any produce from territories considered illegal under international law & thus does not trade with Israeli settlements in the Palestinian Occupied Territories and Moroccan settlements in Western Sahara. The Co-Op are way ahead of the government ...

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#MythologuMonday Non-identical winged twins sprang from the blood-soaked ground after Perseus beheaded pregnant gorgon Medusa - the horse Pegasus [who features in several myths] and the boar Chrysaor who became ruler of Iberia. 🎨Edward Burne-Jones * Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich * G L Elsey