Best of girls

I am very sore tonight but all the lovely animal photos really cheer me up. All of them good boys and girls

Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Plaque with swallow (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

( now Cushenndall is over, for now , Im just keeping some kind of academic groove going!)

Different strokes: changing identities and connectivity between Iron Age Ireland and Northern Britain The rich decoration of Irish and British Iron Age metalwork once conveyed complex symbolic meanings, though its language has long since been lost. Ornamentation remains a vital avenue for interpret...

The wee paper Different Strokes is here, and Open Access!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💖 Hope this Quokka brings ya
joy 🌿 Happy Everything 💚🤎

‘The Wayfarer’ by Hieronymus Bosch

Registration is open for our conference 'Folklore on the Move' in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen! Hybrid conference: 5 - 7 June, King's College Quad, University of Aberdeen. Online day: 10 June. Programme & booking form: www.folklore-society.com/event/folklo...

Ah pet. Im so sorry.

She was the quiet, plain, "boring" kid at school who none of the other Herons noticed.

They all want to be her now.

1/2 🧵

Like most people who grew up with slightly psycho colonisers with guns ,i can hold my whist and temper very well indeed ;)

One was in her late 30s, the other mid 40s.
I didnt get up Tievbuliagh that day, coughing blood,could barelt breathe. One day i will though!

Also. I reckon i had the last laugh, im doing stuff they can only dream of.

"The secret to happiness is to spend more time with animals and less time with idiots." ~ #unknown

Ever so slightly wobbly but still here! Busy work day ahead

My gp would look blankly at me, their solution is Asacol and cocodamol and have a happy life.

No. Ive got a little card ,not much use in such circumstances!

Webpage, on which several links to themed collections, ranging in topic from African to Maritime and Underwater Archaeology, are displayed, each with an associated image.

From human origins to contemporary conflicts, our curated collections contain tons of free and #OpenAccess #archaeology on specific periods, themes and regions of the world! 🏺

Explore them all at antiquity.ac.uk/collections

@everyheron.bsky.social

a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a white dress are dancing together on a dance floor . ALT: a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a white dress are dancing together on a dance floor .

The soda farl and wheaten were home made....

It started rhe trouble! If you do stay ( also pupper friendly) check RiversideB and B.

A narrow high cliff path,with a crashing blue sea a d above it skies painted by Tintoretto. In rhe distance, Lurigethan calls those who are friends of an duine Sidhe, for rhat is their home

Because places of such perfection exist here to remind us of how beautiful a planet can be

Oh the luxury of that big bed and the norrh antrim forced feeding of a fry!

Very half hearted but slowed things a little

And it was sucb a perfect day of sunshine and butterflies, bees, and rhat salty wind blowingin from rhe land of the Epidii

Im not going to mention the tractor muppets at some part of Antrim. Thank god rhe spasms aee fading, but feel like someone set a rocket launcher to my innards .

I love this…

#BookSky

I hadnt realised Prof Seamus Delargey, whose folklore work i admire tremendously, was born in Cushendall.
Pokestop plaques can be very useful 'Gather up the pieces lest they perish'.
www.dib.ie/biography/o-...

Painkilllers and steroids. Yay.

Rhe 11am train was cancelled and the toilets in Ballymena station are unusable. I leave rhat to your worst imaginings. What should have been a 1hr 45 min trip ended in 4 hours.