Profile avatar
21rosa.bsky.social
Currently working out how to fully migrate from that other site. Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance
469 posts 1,483 followers 1,341 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

*Folk Witch book challenge* A book per day (as you’re able), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best history & folklore books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #books #folklore #Witchsky #folkwitchbookchallenge #folkwitch #fairytales

#ThickTrunkTuesday Keswick #Cumbria 📸 mine from last Saturday @showcasecumbria.bsky.social

"A treasure in the hands of a rapid writer" Macniven & Cameron Owl pens for a belletristic #OwlishMonday

For #MagentaMonday a colourful memory of Dilston physic garden #Northumberland 📸 mine Saturday 27 August, 2016

Skies and moon over Cold Fell #Cumbria on #BlueSkiesMonday 📸 mine Saturday 18 May, 2024

An innovative and inclusive event in a polarised and fragmented world. Thank you to @deedeechainey.bsky.social for creating this space next weekend. Still a few tickets left on Eventbrite, so nab yours now 😊

#WeekIforInside Blackwell – the Arts & Crafts house in Bowness on Windermere #Cumbria #AlphabetChallenge #Lakeland

@showcasecumbria.bsky.social Hope everyone had a good weekend? Driving to #Keswick's Mint #film festival under rainbows and fells; sun coming through on Saturday afternoon, and Venus over Derwentwater by night. Glorious #Cumbria 🤍💙💛💚

Lesser celandine stretching towards the sunlight after a reviving rain shower #Wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Coltsfoot and Common field speedwell bringing colour to our footpaths in Hexham and Corbridge #Northumberland @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Wildflowerhour

#Keswick this morning and in the afternoon light #Cumbria

"A Door, the only outlet from the Vault, had attracted my eyes. I hastened towards it, having wrapped my winding sheet closely round me. I pushed against the door and to my inexpressible terror found that it was fastened on the outside" The Monk (1796) Small Things Like These (2024) #BookWormSat

Slaley forest from sunlight, sunset to moonlight on Sunday 2 February, 2025 #ForestFriday #Northumberland

Boiled in milk, jelly ear was a sixteenth century remedy for sore throats. It grows on dead and dying hardwoods, like this specimen found in #Northumberland last Sunday #FungiFriday

Dilston sunset at 16:46 today #Northumberland

#rainbow reaching over Corbridge right now #Northumberland

Once part of the Melrose abbey estate, you can now step through this #AdoorableThursday to an enchanted orchard of apples pears, plums, mulberries and medlars #Scotland

#Snowdrops are brought by Proserpina returning from Hades. The symbolism is ambivalent; tho they're first to bloom, they bring a reminder of death & burial. Victorian lore suggested their colour & shape echoed the shroud 📸 mine 🎨 Blanzifiore (or Snowdrops) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti #WyrdWednesday

Tucked away in Melrose town centre, a repurposed piscina making for a characterful #WallsonWednesday #Scotland

Galway city's @woodberrywines.bsky.social #Ireland #WeekHforHeroes #AlphabetChallenge

Taking #TuesdayTea in Dilston physic garden #Northumberland 🫖

Illuminated #ThickTrunkTuesday in the grounds of Melrose rugby club #Scotland

"Will you listen with Owl ears for a while?" 'The Lost Spells' by Jackie Morris and @robertmacfarland.bsky.social A searching stare on #OwlishMonday

*Folk Witch book challenge* A book per day (as you’re able), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best history & folklore books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #books #folklore #Witchsky #folkwitchbookchallenge #folkwitch #Scotland #folklore

Fully expected Slash, Noddy Holder or Jay Kay to be under this impressive fungus this afternoon. Not sure what it is ... artist's bracket? Would appreciate any guidance from @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #mycology 🤘🏻

A wine coloured botanical palette this afternoon: jelly ear fungus, ivy fruits and dogwood buds all discovered in Wylam/Prudhoe #Northumberland #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” Romeo and Juliet II, ii 133-136 #ShakespeareSunday #Love 📸 mine from 24 December, 2024. Tynemouth

*Folk Witch book challenge* A book per day (as you’re able), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best history & folklore books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #books #folklore #Witchsky #folkwitchbookchallenge #folkwitch #forests

An august entrant to #PostBoxSaturday on Buccleuch Street, Melrose #Scotland

The power of inexorable fate (wyrd) shaping, constricting and destroying human lives and situations was a recurrent theme in Old English literature. The 'Wanderer' tells us: Ne mæg werig mod wyrde wiðstondan The weary heart cannot fend off fate 🎨 Bertha Wegmann (Danish, 1847–1926) #BookWormSat

A 1967 anthology of livin, lovin #folksong for #Valentine's Day, priced 12/6 The front cover is a reproduction of Eric Gill's "Man and Woman Embracing" ❤️🌹 #folklore #ballad @folkloresociety.bsky.social