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Music in the Trees Emily Carr c. 1935

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At Carnac, Brittany, June 2023 #StandingStoneSunday

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POV: this is ‘canonical’ Doctor Who and the last 60 years is just BBC fan fiction.

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Henry has decided to be a centrepiece.

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‘The Mendesians reckon Pan among the eight gods who, they say, were before the twelve gods. Now in their painting and sculpture, the image of Pan is made with the head and the legs of a goat, as among the Greeks...’ — Herodotus, ‘Persian Wars,’ II. 46

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Photograph of the largest stone at 'Kistvaen al Lagmore' near Ballindalloch, Moray, Scotland, by B Diveri, 1897

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Got my first pair of progressive lenses today, so now I officially ‘wear glasses’!

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Horned Fox, Hedge Fox 🦊🌿🌓 - linocut, part of an ongoing series #WIP #FoxFriday

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Today’s new bloom — the classic ‘Apothecary’ rose.

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I'm delighted to reveal the cover of my new book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. It will be published by @headlinebooks.bsky.social on 11 September. Available to pre-order here: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHo... If you are happy to share this post, please, I'd be grateful.

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The dolmen of La Roche aux Fées in Essé (Ille-et-Vilaine) is built from 41 blocks of schist and has a trilith portal entrance formed by a large dressed lintel on 2 supports. After a 3.5m antechamber the main chamber is 14m long, 4m wide and 2m high.

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'The night will never stay. The night will still go by, Though with a million stars You pin it to the sky; Though you bind it with the blowing wind And buckle it with the moon The night will slip away Like sorrow or a tune' (Eleanor Farjeon 1851-1965/art Richard Teschner 1878-1948)

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When I see one of my former students in public, it's hard to resist the temptation to raise a trembling hand and say in a thin, rasping voice, 'You were once... my pupil.'

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Strawberries came early this year — half our strawberry patch still needs weeding but I picked these just this morning.

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Enjoying the delicate blooms on our David Austin ‘Ballerina’ rose this morning.

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💜🌛📖🌜💜New historical Witchcraft book from @folklorepod.bsky.social (cover art by me)🪄 #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

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For U.S. readers, @princetonupress.bsky.social has put up this pre-order page for my new book, due out in October!

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Today’s blooms.

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NewPoetry today from @garybarwin.bsky.social. newpoetry.ca/2025/06/02/t...

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Wayland’s Smithy, July 2023. #TombTuesday

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Just finished copy-editing a chapter I wrote on the poet W.S. Graham back in 2021. Academic publishing moves very, very slowly.

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Maiden Castle (Dorset): New research from Bournemouth Uni: Mortimer Wheeler's 'war cemetery' victims were not from a Roman attack on the hillfort but died over the early and middle decades of the first century AD when Maiden Castle was long abandoned.

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Today’s blooms.

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Wishing a happy Pride month to all who celebrate! 🎨Heliodorus of Rhodes, Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes (detail), 2nd century BCE.

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Time-transformed the stones may be, diminished in power as story engines they're not. Once portal tomb and now lichen-dressed lithic huddle, the shadow of the Long Neolithic is still cast. They still provide spine for folklore's living current to bloom upon. – Dr. K. Brophy 1982 #StandingStoneSunday

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Just finished reading — Colquhoun’s poems leave me a bit cold, but the short pieces gathered here as ‘imaginative prose’ feel fresh, alive, and contemporary; her essays on art and esoteric traditions are lucid and fascinating.

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Stanton Drew, Somerset, July 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

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Men-an-Tol #StandingStoneSunday

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Even more blooms

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New blooms today.

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Owl Carl Ray ~ Anishinaabe 1978

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Bill Brandt, Robert Graves, 1941.

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Couldn’t resist the new Severin release of Peter Cushing’s two Doctor Who films on Blu-Ray.

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Working through my copyedited manuscript basically consists of me repeatedly asking, 'Uh-oh, what have I done here?' and then trying to answer that question.

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‘“The worship of Pan never has died out,’ said Mortimer. ‘Other newer gods have drawn aside his votaries from time to time, but he is the Nature-God to whom all must come back at last.”’ — Saki, ‘The Music on the Hill’ (1911)

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Photograph of ‘The Whispering Knights’ Rollright stones in Oxfordshire by John Piper

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My MO online and irl:

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More new blooms today.

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Part of witchcraft and witchgraft is a charting of spirits. Tutelary deities, genii locorum – the witch walks to make a map of where they can be found. The witch walks to make a connection with them. For all magic is rooted in relationships. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Music in the Trees Emily Carr c. 1935

At Carnac, Brittany, June 2023 #StandingStoneSunday

POV: this is ‘canonical’ Doctor Who and the last 60 years is just BBC fan fiction.

Henry has decided to be a centrepiece.

‘The Mendesians reckon Pan among the eight gods who, they say, were before the twelve gods. Now in their painting and sculpture, the image of Pan is made with the head and the legs of a goat, as among the Greeks...’ — Herodotus, ‘Persian Wars,’ II. 46

Photograph of the largest stone at 'Kistvaen al Lagmore' near Ballindalloch, Moray, Scotland, by B Diveri, 1897

Got my first pair of progressive lenses today, so now I officially ‘wear glasses’!

Horned Fox, Hedge Fox 🦊🌿🌓 - linocut, part of an ongoing series #WIP #FoxFriday

Today’s new bloom — the classic ‘Apothecary’ rose.

I'm delighted to reveal the cover of my new book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. It will be published by @headlinebooks.bsky.social on 11 September. Available to pre-order here: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHo... If you are happy to share this post, please, I'd be grateful.

The dolmen of La Roche aux Fées in Essé (Ille-et-Vilaine) is built from 41 blocks of schist and has a trilith portal entrance formed by a large dressed lintel on 2 supports. After a 3.5m antechamber the main chamber is 14m long, 4m wide and 2m high.

'The night will never stay. The night will still go by, Though with a million stars You pin it to the sky; Though you bind it with the blowing wind And buckle it with the moon The night will slip away Like sorrow or a tune' (Eleanor Farjeon 1851-1965/art Richard Teschner 1878-1948)

When I see one of my former students in public, it's hard to resist the temptation to raise a trembling hand and say in a thin, rasping voice, 'You were once... my pupil.'

Strawberries came early this year — half our strawberry patch still needs weeding but I picked these just this morning.

Enjoying the delicate blooms on our David Austin ‘Ballerina’ rose this morning.

💜🌛📖🌜💜New historical Witchcraft book from @folklorepod.bsky.social (cover art by me)🪄 #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

For U.S. readers, @princetonupress.bsky.social has put up this pre-order page for my new book, due out in October!

Today’s blooms.

NewPoetry today from @garybarwin.bsky.social. newpoetry.ca/2025/06/02/t...

Wayland’s Smithy, July 2023. #TombTuesday

Just finished copy-editing a chapter I wrote on the poet W.S. Graham back in 2021. Academic publishing moves very, very slowly.

Maiden Castle (Dorset): New research from Bournemouth Uni: Mortimer Wheeler's 'war cemetery' victims were not from a Roman attack on the hillfort but died over the early and middle decades of the first century AD when Maiden Castle was long abandoned.

Today’s blooms.

Wishing a happy Pride month to all who celebrate! 🎨Heliodorus of Rhodes, Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes (detail), 2nd century BCE.

Just finished reading — Colquhoun’s poems leave me a bit cold, but the short pieces gathered here as ‘imaginative prose’ feel fresh, alive, and contemporary; her essays on art and esoteric traditions are lucid and fascinating.

Stanton Drew, Somerset, July 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

Men-an-Tol #StandingStoneSunday

Even more blooms

New blooms today.

Owl Carl Ray ~ Anishinaabe 1978

Bill Brandt, Robert Graves, 1941.

Couldn’t resist the new Severin release of Peter Cushing’s two Doctor Who films on Blu-Ray.

Working through my copyedited manuscript basically consists of me repeatedly asking, 'Uh-oh, what have I done here?' and then trying to answer that question.

‘“The worship of Pan never has died out,’ said Mortimer. ‘Other newer gods have drawn aside his votaries from time to time, but he is the Nature-God to whom all must come back at last.”’ — Saki, ‘The Music on the Hill’ (1911)

Photograph of ‘The Whispering Knights’ Rollright stones in Oxfordshire by John Piper

My MO online and irl:

More new blooms today.

Part of witchcraft and witchgraft is a charting of spirits. Tutelary deities, genii locorum – the witch walks to make a map of where they can be found. The witch walks to make a connection with them. For all magic is rooted in relationships. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Natalie (my wife) has a new prose poem out in ‘The Prose Poem’! #poetry

Crazy how literally no major films have warned us about this