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Painting of kestrel perched on a branch.

‘It's fierce, an' it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great.’ ~
Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave.

This #BookWormSat will wear feathers and take flight with the birds of literature. Do join us. 🪶
🖼️ Basil Ede

a light pink tulip amongst a lot of dark purple red ones

me hanging out at the goth bar

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.
~Dorothy Richardson

They are cunning, deceitful, and often delightful archetypes! Join us today on #BookologyThursday for this week's theme of Tricksters and Shapeshifters🐇🦇

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Choose 20 plants that have stayed with you or influenced you. One plant per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no details, just photos.

Day 4

#PlantChallenge #gardensky #novascotiagardeners
#gardeningfeed #bloomscrolling #apiosamericana #groundnut

So pretty and dark I love the Gothic architecture 😍

Oh so beautiful I would love to live somewhere like this 😍

Great that you had some too, they are wonderful and it is so interesting to imagine all the transactions that took place and what kind of people held them. Trying to explain cryptocurrency to a Victorian would be fun and take a long time I imagine 🤣

I found these very old Victorian Pennies in a charity shop yesterday a small bag full. The paper tells you what they are. I was happy to find them ☺️

Choose 20 plants that have stayed with you or influenced you. One plant per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no details, just photos.

Day 3

#PlantChallenge #gardensky #novascotiagardeners
#gardeningfeed #bloomscrolling #apiosamericana #groundnut

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Cryptwork #19:

"Beyond the Black Diamond Gates" [cf. Opera IX]

Interior of the dilapidated chapel at Abney Park Cemetery, London, seen from the separating grate, before its restoration.

Pic my own, taken in 2010 🖤

#gothic #gothicadvent [yay!] #photography #blackmetal #metalsky

Cryptwork #17:

"Simply To Thy Cross I Cling"

West Norwood Cemetery, 2010

Apparently the cemetery has catacombs 🦇 It would be wonderful to get inside and photograph these at some point 🖤

#gothic #gothicadvent #photography @fownc.org

Cryptwork #16:

Ironwork hinge, West Norwood Cemetery, London. Nov 2010.

Some of the most beautiful artwork lies in details.

Tagging @fownc.org #gothic #gothicadvent #photography

Cryptwork #15:

Cloister, Brompton Cemetery, London. This shot is taken from the entrance to the crypt that runs underneath the cemetery.

I wasn't able to gain access to it, but maybe one day?

Tagging @samstrzyga.bsky.social since I know she loves this place 🪦

#gothic #gothicadvent #photography

Cryptwork #14:

#gothicadvent is sadly over but I've still a wealth of photography that hasn't been shared to re-tag!

This Celtic cross is from Abney Park, maybe the most 'gothic' cemetery from London's "magnificent seven". It's no surprise that a rock band in the USA used the name 🖤 #photography

Choose 20 plants that have stayed with you or influenced you. One plant per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no details, just photos.

Day 2

#PlantChallenge #gardensky #novascotiagardeners
#gardeningfeed #bloomscrolling #apiosamericana #groundnut

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2 - Shoe factory machinist Alice Hawkins played a key role in the campaign to give women a say in politics in the early 1900s when they were still denied the vote.

Victorian and Edwardian statues in my hometown of Leicestershire

1 - A statue named the Leicester Seamstress. Rather than being of a particular person, it represents the city's hosiery heritage.

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#Victorian
#Leicester
#History
#Edwardian

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Some of my Artwork and Crafts 🎨🖌

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Choose 20 plants that have stayed with you or influenced you. One plant per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no details, just photos.

#PlantChallenge #gardensky #novascotiagardeners
#gardeningfeed #bloomscrolling #apiosamericana #groundnut

Day 1

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In Victorian England, the language of flowers, or floriography, was a popular way to convey emotions and sentiments. Specific flowers such as white lilies, dark crimson roses, black hyacinths, violets, and rosemary (as seen here) are still associated with grief, loss, and remembrance.

Dark green cover bordered in gold inlay, white flowers fill a central panel. ALPINE FLOWERS AND GARDENS PAINTED AND DESCRIBED BY G FLEMWELL

Book Cover of the Day:

Apios americana, called Sipekne’ in Mi’kmaq or American Groundnut in English, a native legume cultivated here by the Mi’kmaw people in woodlands and along stream-beds since time immemorial. It has tubers joined together along thin roots like a string of beads which can be harvested and eaten like a potato. It grows enormous vines and beautiful puce inflorescences every summer. A tremendous plant.

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#PlantChallenge #gardensky #novascotiagardeners
#gardeningfeed #bloomscrolling #apiosamericana #groundnut