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#WyrdWednesday Dead bodies cast into the magical Pair Dadeni reappeared as mute revenants. Used by Matholwch to create a "zombie" army, the cauldron was destroyed when Efnysien sacrificed his own life by plunging himself into it while still alive. 🎨Margaret Jones & T Prytherch #Mabinogion

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.” C S Lewis - Prince Caspian 🎨Meraylah Allwood #WorldBadgerDay #BookChatWeekly

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday Mykhailo Kolodko's bronze statue of Dracula - reading a copy of Bram Stoker's book - in Budapest, also pays tribute to Hungarian born actor Béla Lugosi, famed for his 1931 portrayal of Count Dracula. 📷Tanjaglad [IG]

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday #BookChatWeekly "... if it had not been that we have crossed his path he would be yet, he may be yet if we fail, the father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead through Death, not Life ..." Bram Stoker - Dracula 🎨John Coulthard

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, on the plus side this makes the people living nearby a great deal safer than they were a few days ago!

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday The wonderful Rosary Cemetery, Norwich - it was the first non-denominational cemetery in Britain - is a beautiful haven of peace and tranquillity with a gothic-style chapel ...

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MythologyMonday The Ngayurnangalku are spirits of the ancestral people of indigenous Australians who created Kumpupirntily Lake [also known as Lake Disappointment as it is salt and not fresh water] - these spirits are very dangerous ...

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#ShakespeareSunday "The weary sun hath made a golden set, And, by the bright tract of his fiery car, Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow." Richard III 🎨Ernest Howard Shepard

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#FolkloreSunday #BookChatWeekly "Don’t meddle in the affairs of witches because they clout you around the ear." Terry Pratchett - I Shall Wear Midnight 🎨Laura Ellen Anderson

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#ShakespeareSunday "When the sun sets, who doth not look for night? Untimely storms make men expect a dearth. All may be well; but if God sort it so, 'Tis more than we deserve or I expect." Richard III 🎨Jakub Schikaneder

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#SpookySunday When the Rectory at Syderstone, Norfolk was plagued by ghostly activity in 1833, the Rector opened it to people to investigate - to no avail "We had a variety of thoughts & explanations passing in our minds before we were on the spot, but we left it all equally bewildered" said one!

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#ShakespeareSunday "O! now, let Richmond and Elizabeth, The true succeeders of each royal house, By God's fair ordinance conjoin together; And let their heirs, - God, if they will be so, - Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace, With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days!" Richard III

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BookWormSat "Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all affliction ... Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal." John Muir - John of the Mountains 📷NPS - John Muir in Yosemite Valley

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BookWormSat "They went noiselessly over mats of starry moss, rustled through interspersed tracts of leaves, skirted trunks with spreading roots, whose mossed rinds made them like hands wearing green gloves ..." Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders 🎨Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎨 © Averil Mary Burleigh

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BookWormSat "Old Meg she was a Gipsy, And liv'd upon the Moors: Her bed it was the brown heath turf, And her house was out of doors ... ... Her Brothers were the craggy hills, Her Sisters larchen trees - Alone with her great family She liv'd as she did please ..." John Keats - Meg Merrilies

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My best pal as a child ... Rex, a spaniel-retriever cross ♥️♥️ #NationalBlackDogDay

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Said Hamlet to Ophelia, 'I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?'" Spike Milligan 🎨Unknown Artist #NationalPoetryDay

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid, The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade. A E Housman - from A Shropshire Lad #NationalPoetryDay

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly "People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.” Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies 🎨Wayne Aderson

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday A Welsh cousin of Nessie, the Afanc was the scourge of the Conwy Valley - causing flooding & dragging off unsuspecting victims - until a young woman lured it onto land. The Afanc was taken to Llyn Ffynnon-y-Gwas - where it remains in the deep waters of the lake ...

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#FairyTaleTuesday The Mabinogion tells how Brân [to whom Ravens are sacred] dies in battle in Ireland. His decapitated head - which continues to talk - is taken and buried at the "White Hill", site of what is now the Tower of London - which still has resident Ravens. 🎨Unknown Artist & Rubin Eynon

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

... a sign of an enjoyable few hours on the beach is being covered in sand & salty water! Milo wasn't quite so happy about the shower he needed when he got home! 😂 #TerrierTuesday

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Milo enjoying a day at Old Hunstanton beach (Norfolk) ... #TerrierTuesday

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I may not have amazing victories, but I can amaze you with the defeats that I came out of alive." ~ Anton Chekhov The Coast Near St. Petersburg 🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky (1835)

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MythologyMonday In Deaf culture lore there is a place called Eyeth where the majority of people listen with their eyes and those who hear with their ears are a minority group. Named because of the value of the Eye [Eye-th] rather than the Ear [Ear-th] ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=al4h...

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EYETH

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have happy memories of listening to Bob Newhart with my late father on a vinyl record he had - the driving instructor/bus driving school and the "nutty Walt" monologues still make me laugh over half a century on ... 😊

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#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 · 26/09/2026

#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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why doesn't Trump urge Putin to go to Kyiv for peace talks ...

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just joined the Gang of Two with Trump who has persistently insulted and spread lies about the democratically elected Mayor of London ...

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

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 ...

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

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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

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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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#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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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"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 · 20/09/2026

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

#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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