Cathedral Basilica of Saint Cecilia in Albi, France 🇫🇷
It is widely considered the largest brick building in the world.
The cathedral was built in the Southern French Gothic style between 1282 and 1493.
WILLIAM TELL: if evil Albert of Hapsburg insists I use a weapon to knock this apple off my son's head, I will -- but should I throw my pike? Or aim my crossbow?
MAINWARING (rushing in): don't pike him, Tell!
As you do
Dreamlike illustration of a woman in a dark dress standing on a windy moor beside a bare tree, her hair and ribbons blown sideways. Below her, in a pale mirrored pool, her reflection becomes a shadowy image of a man, echoing the bleak, haunted mood of Wuthering Heights.
“I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights;”
(Emily Brontë)
🎨 Rovina Cai
#bookwormsat
A bit of snow at the Devil's Arrows
#photography
Next week: join us for our first online talk of 2026: Simon Young, 'The Mystery of Changelings: Origins, Geography and Nature'. Tuesday 13 January, 19:00-20:30 GMT on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-myster...
A formal bedtime routine in a small house is conducted by Mum - dad merely lowers his newspaper for a moment
Flannel pyjamas and chunky dressing gowns - and no heating upstairs
(1964)
Artist: John Berry
And mum and dad look 65 even though they are under 30
A drop of dream fuel - January-Cernay-near Rambouillet by Léon-Germain Pelouse
A classic Pennine Prospect - High Cup Gill breaks through the curtain of Whin Sill, with Narrowgate Beacon the distant headland.
an endless line of zombie elves in a cave, innit? Pencil drawing with white chalk and paint highlights.
My first piece for Rise From These Dark Waters. Making more friends for it now.
I am passionate about illustrated books and being part of that tradition of illustrators, so doing interior art is a joy.
Man, that is what you call a palimpsest... Wonderful
Roman mosaic floor in Trieste Cathedral.
Trieste Cathedral was built over a Roman temple next to the forum and retains the original mosaic floor. #TilesOnTuesday 🗃️🏺
Maiden Castle in Dorset is one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Europe. It dates back over 2,000 years and occupies a prominent position atop a natural chalk hill. Here in snow. Happy new year all 🥳 #HillfortsWednesday
Yes. And it affects children even more. We have so much history of what happens whenever we privilege any sub group of males with unfettered access to children and women.
Photo of an arched stained glass window with bold colours and featuring an owl and fish design
Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak designed this stained gjass window at John Bell Chapel of Appleby College in Oakville (Ontario) near Toronto (Canada) #Womensart
Horror anthology idea
each writer gets assigned or chooses an unexplained weird photo from the deep web. You write a story about it
This is mine
The shears usually represent a woman. Medieval women went around with a set of shears attached to their belt. They were useful for spinning and household tasks like scissors are.
Because you are a grown man and it doesn't affect you. Big of you.
That's a wonderful church. If you don't think of Thunderbird 3.
Coo. I didn't know Oaks could do this and survive.
What a wonderful little church!
🏺 Top tip for British Museum visitors: go across the court, up rotunda stairs, cross bridge into upper floor, head past crowds aiming for Egypt and Mesopotamia, and go straight to Rooms 50 and 51 where the most stunning array of glories from later prehistory await you!
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Engraving of an underground cavern with a couple of flying bats in the air. A group of gnomes with digging tools are gathered round looking at a fossil skeleton of an ichthyosaur buried in the rock.
#WyrdWednesday 'Gnomes of the German legends laying bare the skeleton of an Ichthyosaurus'
From 'The Universe, or, The infinitely great and the infinitely little' by Félix-Archimède Pouchet, 1895
wellcomecollection.org/works/j62xw8...
Moody clouds partially covering the mountain summits in Glen Etive in Scotland with the rusty coloured mountain slopes and the little lochan (water/puddle) with bright green moss in the foreground.
Heavy charcoal clouds roll over the rusty mountains of Glen Etive. Then every few minutes a shaft of light slips through & softly lights up the mountain slopes. While in the foreground the moss around the little lochan glows almost lime-green. Wild. Bleak. Beautiful Scotland. #landscapephotography
mushrooms on a messy stump
mushrooms on a dead tree
mushrooms on a dead tree with some berries on a shroom
mushrooms on a dead tree with some berries on a shroom
deeper in the woods, left that for lil children imagination a few days ago. #mushrooms #fungi #woods #Mos #mossy #offerings
Wonderful, exciting news – my Reynard the Fox is now an audiobook! Completely unabridged and read by the perfect narrator, Joseph Edward Degnan. It's available now at all the usual places, see below for links and a clip!
In November 1703, a woman and her child in Llanelieu, Powys, were “blown away by the Wind…taken up in the Air two or three yards, and very much Wounded and Bruised by the Fall."
📷 St Ellyw's, Llanelieu, Powys
St Michael's Church, Barton-le-Street is a remarkable example of Norman architecture, originally built around 1160 and extensively rebuilt in 1871
For Palm Sunday: St Michael's Church, Barton-le-Street is a remarkable example of Norman architecture, originally built around 1160 and extensively rebuilt in 1871 in a richly romanticised Norman style. For once I agree with Pevsner who described it as "a sumptuous small Norman church,
