Chasson Knight

@redheadmuppet Twitter's a strange space. If you haven't interacted with them, why wouldn't they just stop following you? Be yourself, and fuck 'em.

I’m scared to post this because it’s almost TOO Irish: filming yesterday at Newgrange, Co Meath, at Europe’s oldest building, when a rainbow appeared above the passage tomb.

@redheadmuppet They always want to compare tragedy in their favour, like it's a competition. I'm sorry to hear you're having a tough time. ❤

🐾🌘🐾In Welsh myth the Cŵn Annwn 'Hounds of Annwn' are white, red-eared and red-eyed spectral dogs of the Otherworld that run with the Wild Hunt. Any mortal hearing their howl is said to be doomed. #FolkloreSunday

"The pisgies used to com' about more'n they do now. They used to be up to their pranks almost every night. I've a heerd tell about mun [them] poundin' apples and makin' butter, and doing all sorts o' things, and zometimes us used to put a penny 'pon the table as wages vur mun."

Glen of the Hall of Spirits Here in this deep valley, green swarded and embowered, once stood an ancient house, Boggart Hole Clough. Lone and desolate, misty and fearful even at midday, the place is still known as the glen of the hall of spirits. #Manchester

Water-devils or Mermaids The water is their Chaos wherein they live. Some call them faeries and say that Habundia is their queen. They cause Inundations, many times shipwrecks, and deceive men divers ways. #folklore #Mermaid

There is an Irish phrase I wish you all knew and used in the UK: “making a hames of something”. For example in the sentence “The BBC is making a fucking hames of this”. You can probably guess the meaning.

@redheadmuppet That's lovely!

I saw this beautiful ancient Egyptian statuette in the Louvre last week, labelled ‘Body of a goddess’. Bronze decorated with gold lozenge pattern. Height 12cm. Third Intermediate Period, 1069-664 BC. 📷 my own #Archaeology

Brú na Bóinne, the #Irish Valley of the Tombs, older than #Stonehenge. "It is not in the power of poets or of sages to reckon the number of heroes under the mounds. There is not a hillock which is not the grave of a king or royal prince, or of a woman, or warlike poet."

GRUMP STUMP-A particularly malcontented tree trunk in the Odenwald National Park,Deustche

@redheadmuppet Blimey, it feels as though they could write a new chapter a week for that book.

Awe-inspiring #IceAge art. Yesterday, I saw this statuette known as the ‘Little horse of Lourdes’. Sculpted from mammoth ivory around 16,000 years ago, the coat and mane are rendered by lines and cross hatching. From the Espélugues Cave, Pyrenees, France. 📷 my own #Archaeology

Today, 27th February, is the Feast of St #Ælfnoth, Anglo-Saxon hermit. As a boy, he looked after cows. As a hermit, he was killed by robbers. As a saint, his shrine was at #Stowe. Pilgrims once visited his relics. No longer. All is lost in the mists of time. #Northamptonshire

Ancient Egyptian weight in the form of a cat, c. 1550-30 BC. Bronze, silver, lead, 0.6Ib. 📷 Brooklyn Museum (CC BY 3.0) brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection… The ancient Egyptian (onomatopoeic) word for cat is ‘miw’. Meow!🐱❤️ #Caturday #Archaeology

WICKER PIC OF THE DAY- TV's Songs of Praise definitely knows how to put on a show!

A c. 2000 year-old Roman-era cobalt blue glass flask signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. A Greek inscription reads ‘Ennion made me/it’. He was the first known glassmaker to sign his work by incorporating his name into the mould’s design. 📷 The Met #Archaeology

Tomorrow is #ShroveTuesday or 'Fat Tuesday', the day before Lent begins. Eggs are banned in #Lent. Eat pancakes today. "And all the kitchen doth with laughter sound, To see the pancakes fall upon the ground." #PancakeDay