#WyrdWednesday #Earthday
"But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed."
John Keats
The humble bee is the greatest pollinator on earth, and people have been collecting honey and practicing beekeeping for thousands of years.
Love this ... 💚💚
#WyrdWednesday #Earthday
#WyrdWednesday
The lake dwelling, critically endangered, Axolotl has an amazing ability to regenerate limbs, eyes & parts of its brain. Aztec god Xolotl, fleeing from adversaries, turned himself into an Axolotl - a neotenic creature - effectively cheating death with "eternal youth".
#Earthday
Beautiful words by the great A E Housman ...
The Key to Avalon. This morning's sunrise on Glastonbury Tor. A bit windy up there and very cold hence nobody else around.
#ShakespeareSunday
"My rage is gone;
And I am struck with sorrow ...
... Though in this city he
Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one,
Which to this hour bewail the injury,
Yet he shall have a noble memory."
Coriolanus
🎨Michael Goodman
#ShakespeareSunday
"Though I am not naturally honest,
I am so sometimes by chance ..."
The Winter's Tale
🎨Charles Robert Leslie
#ShakespeareSunday
"Get thee glass eyes,
And like a scurvy politician seem
To see the things thou dost not."
King Lear
#BookWormSat
"Truth has many faces and the truth is like the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, your own thoughts, whither the road will take you, and whether, at the end, you arrive at the Holy Isle of Eternity ..."
Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon
🎨Kimsol [DeviantArt]
#BookWormSat
"They [Marabar Caves] are like nothing else in the world, a glimpse of them makes the breath catch. They rise abruptly, insanely, without the proportion that is kept by the wildest hills elsewhere, they bear no relation to anything dreamt or seen ..."
E M Forster - A Passage to India
#BookWormSat
"Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine ..."
Henry James - in a letter, 1869
#BookWormSat
[they gathered] to watch the last blazing hours of St Paul's Cathedral.
"The roof! The roof's melting!"
And indeed it was. Flames burst from the belfry and from the lofty, pointed windows beneath, flickering round the crumbling buttresses ..
Stella Riley - The Marigold Chain
🎨W Nollar
“Between me and the moon light flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles.”
Bram Stoker - Dracula
🎨Nomura Yoshikuni [National Museum of Asian Art Collection]
#BatAppreciationDay
"The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light!'"
Shel Silverstein
#BatAppreciationDay 🦇
Memorial to the victims of the Infected Blood Scandal @manchester.ac.uk ... so many people denied justice - and compensation - for so long. They should not have had to fight so long or so hard for justice.
#WorldHaemophiliaDay #InfectedBloodScandal
Since the US [alongside Israel] is the aggressor in this war, and there is hard evidence that they have hit oil refineries, bridges and a school, I would say that they should not be allowed to use their airbases here ...
#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday
"I eat my peas with honey;
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife."
Anonymous
🎨 Pieter Brueghel the Younger
#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday
"The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just's umbrella!"
Charles Bowen
🎨George Cruikshank
#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday
"We are little airy creatures,
All of different voice and features;
One of us in glass is set,
One of us you'll find in jet.
T'other you may see in tin,
And the fourth a box within.
If the fifth you should pursue,
It can never fly from you."
Jonathan Swift
#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday
"Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
'I'll draw a sketch of thee.
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?'"
Spike Milligan
🎨Pebbled [@DeviantArt]
#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday
"A mirror is a funny thing,
It makes you have a sort of twin,
Look at it, it will look at you,
Make a face, and it will too!"
Wendy Bottiriell
#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday
Bears aren't much good at history,
They're rather bad at sums.
They're even worse at sitting still
'Cos they've got slidey bums.
A plushy rear has got no grip
Upon a polished seat
And that is why they fidget so -
[But still, they're rather sweet]
Unknown
I object to him being called a Protestant - my family were nonconformists and never supported starting wars ... no person of faith [of any kind] would ever suggest that god is on their side when undertaking acts of violence - Vance is religious, but not a person of faith.
#WyrdWednesday #BookologyThursday
"Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light
Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!
It is the business of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan."
Hilaire Belloc
#MythologyMonday
"... and when he awoke neither life nor existence nor being was left him, but for the maiden he had seen in his sleep."
The Mabinogion - The Dream of Macsen Wledig
Great to see Hungary rejecting right wing oppression [and the added bonus of giving a V-sign to Trump and Vance's attempted electoral interference] - good news for Hungary and the rest of Europe.
#Magyar #HungarianElection
news.sky.com/story/hungar...
#FolkloreSunday
It is said that the bells of the flooded Welsh city of Cantre'r Gwaelod can still be heard by boats off the coast of Aberdyfi, and people report hearing the ghostly bells of Dunwich church - which fell into the sea when the cliffs eroded - off the Suffolk coast ...
#ShakespeareSunday
"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night.
Four nights will quickly dream away the time.
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities."
A Midsummer Night's Dream
🎨Brenda Walker
#ShakespeareSunday
"His face was as the heavens, and therein stuck
A sun and moon, which kept their course and lighted
The little O, the Earth ...
... His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm
Crested the world ...."
Antony and Cleopatra
🎨De Sphaera Mundi MS
