Stephen Reid

How can #OldDown not be a Local Nature Reserve? See my latest blog entry at reidaboutbasingstoke.co.uk

#FolkloreThursday It's said that the Palace Theatre in London kept two seats permanently bolted open and unavailable for booking. They were reserved for the Theatre's resident ghosts, one said to be the spirit of Ivor Novello, the other the ghost of a ballerina #31DaysofHaunting

New developments impact existing infrastructure: the Borough Council needs to rethink its planning strategy, See reidaboutbasingstoke.co.uk

@BasingstokeGov planning fortnightly bin collections and weekly food waste. #Basingstoke. See reidaboutbasingstoke.co.uk

Great to get an update from ⁦@HHFTnhs⁩ at the Basingstoke Heart Centre, which has now been open for 18 months, and how clinical plans for the new hospital bring stoke and heart attack expertise together to provide the very best for patients.

Thanks to the pupils and staff at South View Junior for making me so welcome!

Big thanks to everyone who reached out to @MariaMillerUK for St. Michael's Hospice! Your support means the world. We'll keep fighting for fair funding to protect the vital services we provide in #NorthHampshire. The care we provide is worth fighting for. #hospicesupport

#BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly "I give you the light of Eärendil our most beloved star. May it be a light to you in dark places when all other lights go out." #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings Img: Evelyn De Morgan: Lux in Tenebris

#FolkyFriday Medeina is the Lithuanian Goddess of the forest. Associated with Artemis and Diana, she sometimes took the form of a hare or a rabbit. To protect animals from hunters, she would send out a rabbit to lead the hunt away. Art: Ophelia by Arthur Hughes #spring

Great to be out meetings residents over the past few days in Hatch Warren, Beggarwood and Oakley. Thanks to all the @BSKconservative Councillors and volunteers for your help #Basingstoke

What is the moral of the story of Pandora? Hear @TerriElizabethR 's version of the story here: youtube.com/watch?v=7SLAqa…

#WyrdWednesday The C19th passion for green created demand for bright wallpaper, clothing, accessories. But arsenic was used to produce emerald green & this could be deadly, in wallpaper this gave off cyanide. In 1862 a 15 yr old girl died after licking green millinery decorations

Out meeting residents in Hounsome Fields with our great ⁦@BSKconservative⁩ team. Lots of support for our petition to cut traffic speed on A30 west of Basingstoke & for more safe pedestrian crossings, especially for children attending the new school including from Beggarwood

Planning 18,000 homes on West of #Basingstoke is flawed. See reidaboutbasingstoke.co.uk

"But Prometheus loves man..." @TerriElizabethR explores 'Agape' in her sumptuous retelling of the myth of Pandora. Listen here: youtube.com/watch?v=7SLAqa…

How great is @TerriElizabethR's voice? Listen to the full tale here: youtube.com/watch?v=7SLAqa…

#FolkyFriday In a Charles Dickens story a young woman appears to an artist asking him to paint her from just one sitting. She then disappears. The artists discovers the reason - she was a ghost and she wanted the portrait as a memento mori for her Father #BookChatWeekly

Surface of Jupiter? Nope. Two thousand year old yew tree at #uptongrey Hampshire. Planted by the Romans.

#FolkloreSunday Rhiannon first appears in the Mabinogi on a horse. She chooses her consort but is falsely accused of killing her son and punished. She endures, is proved true and her son returned to her. The song of her sacred birds can wake the dead or bring sleep to the living

Veery, very excited to be asked to be part of this super event taking place tonight

#MythologyMonday Zeus sends his new, perfect creation, Pandora, to Epimetheus as a gift. When Epimetheus sees her he is so overcome by love that he forgets the warnings of his brother Prometheus against accepting any gifts from Zeus, and welcomes her as his wife @WoodwoseProd