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Join #BookChatWeekly daily to share literature, lore, and more. Host: @Kerria📚
#bookchatweekly Katılım Temmuz 2022
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Greetings, dear Bibliophiles! Apologies for the recent absence. I’ve just committed to an adventurous project that will require a 3 month hiatus from #BookologyThursday. #BookChatWeekly resumes next week. Thank you for your understanding, and looking forward to seeing you here!
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Morning all, @frome_maude here, welcoming you to today’s theme of:
THE LORE OF TREES, FORESTS, WOODLAND & GREEN SPACES.
Bring your posts to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost.
See you soon! Maude xx
Image: Bluebell Wood by Lucy Grossmith
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2pm to 4pm TODAY on @SkyArts
Both episodes of #Documentary📺 “Dickens in Italy with David Harewood”
The actor & writer follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens' journey through Italy's most beautiful cities, examining the country's influence on the author
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"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?".
C.L.Balfour
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"They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon."
Edward Lear,
The Owl and The Pussycat
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"Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full;
One for my master,
And one for my dame,
and one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane."
- English Nursery Rhyme (circa 1744) #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly
🎨 by Dorothy M. Wheeler
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#FairyFriday 🌷✨ #TulipFairy 🌷🧚♀️
In English folklore, the Tulip Faeries once tended red blooms beside a hidden cottage. When a farmer tore them up for crops, the faeries vanished… and the red tulips with them.
Yet each full moon, they return—blossoming only on one old woman’s grave, a quiet tribute to a mother’s love and lingering magic. 🌕🧚♀️
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🎨 Cicely Mary Barker
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Professor Janet Todd's 'definitive biography of Aphra Behn, the Royalist spy and pioneering Restoration dramatist, novelist and poet of the erotic', is one we can highly recommend! A fascinating life.
Westminster Abbey@wabbey
Aphra Behn died #onthisday in 1609. She was one of the first women to earn a living by writing plays and poetry, publishing under the pseudonym Astrea. She was also employed by Charles II as a spy during the Dutch War. She is remembered in Virginia Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own, with the lines: ‘All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.’
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#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘The Dagda came with his club of anger, and sang the following words at Teme Mara [the Plain of Murthemne, Co. Louth, between Dundalk and the Boyne]., i.e., the shelter, or covering of the sea:
Silent thy hollow head,
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They weren't English and they weren't Latin. Burlingham described them as reminding him of the old nursery rhyme:
"There were three brothers over the sea.
Peri meri dixi domine
They sent three presents unto me
Petrum partrum paradisi tempore
Peri meri dixi domine."
"The Dabblers" by William Fryer Harvey
🎨Gabbo Elías
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A little bit of Spike Milligan for you for #BookologyThursday 📚
I remember I had his book Milliganimals when I was a kid.
Thanks for the memories, Spike.
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Done and done! And also: a book review (chase it down on Goodreads if you want). goodreads.com/review/show/84…
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#BookologyThursday’s BookCat & the Mothers of #WyrdWednesday & give you:
“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”
Little Willie hung his sister;
She was dead before we missed her.
Willie's always up to tricks.
Ain't he cute? He's only six.
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In memory of Spike Milligan, #BOTD in India in 1918.
Illustration by Eric Kincaid.
#BookologyThursday 📚
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Whales have calves,
Cats have kittens,
Bears have cubs,
Bats have bittens*
Swans have cygnets,
Seals have puppies,
But guppies just have little guppies.
Ogden Nash
*Bitten is an invented rhyme. A baby bat is a ‘pup’
Avril Haynes #BookologyThursday
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