And I was after recommendations for the whole of the British-Irish Isles throughout history, so I apologise if I have been accidentally insensitive.
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And I was after recommendations for the whole of the British-Irish Isles throughout history, so I apologise if I have been accidentally insensitive.
Fair enough. I get that there are colonial connotations and that the Ordnance Survey of Ireland doesn't recognise it, but for what I was after. Although Ireland doesn't recognise it and I understand why it is the most common used by geographers, and so for my albeit clumsy shorthand was most useful
Lads. I'm not having fun anymore on here, so I think I'm out. You can find me on IG same name x
Thank you- although I meant geographically rather than anything else (as the great-grandaughter of an Irish rebel from Cork I am aware it is a separate country)
I love haunting, but you can't work from home.
Ooh thank v much!
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
I wonder @folklorepod.bsky.social if you know of any books specifically about the folklore of birds in the British Isles? Of course we know the magpie rhyme but there must be other stuff (wrens in Ireland, robin redbreast aside).
And a rare thing- I could make almost all of the projects quite happily!
A book called Witchy Stitching
New book arrived from @bertsbooks.bsky.social! Now I can combine hobbies into one super hobby!
PROTESTANTS HATE ABBA, pass it on x
Since Saturday I have walked 25 miles. Today I will take Pip out for a bimble and then spend the day not doing very much of anything.
A landscape in silhouette - black against an inky blue sky. We see the outline of a church tower in front of a river, with trees and a few houses. Overhead in the starry sky there is a meteor shower
The Night Sky, 1965
The #Perseids
Artist: Robert Ayton
I thinky interviewers were surprised when I said I enjoyed the test part of my interview because I like a puzzle
I have a job interview at 2 and have basically been ready since 9
We did not suffer through Baz Luhrmann at No.1 for this
I asked my Lithuanian colleague about this and she said it's nothing to do with the doll- apparently it's from the 19thC and was coined because of it rhyming as a phrase
It's the way she squeezes the pigment out of the shell- it just awoke something within me
Ursula the Sea Witch from the animated Little Mermaid purses her lips in order to put lipstick on
I realised the other day that this scene imprinted on me age six and I was, as a result, destined to become a lipstick addict (I am working on the sea witch bit)
I love Taylor Swift but my very very Swifties friends are so excited about her new album that it's lovely to see (also the colour theme for the next album is orange aka my favourite colour)
Nitro was meant to do it last year, right? But got injured
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and a dog that plays basketball
Very excited that Strictly announcements are starting
No, I don't want to 'circle back'. I want to stare at the sea and wonder where the Puffins go.
Why are people
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Also this is LIFE
Rewatching Derry Girls and I still marvel at how well it captures the mid-90s. I was a teenager at the same time, albeit in Yorkshire, and so much is just spot on.
Also today, it’s the 124th anniversary of a jaunt around the gardens of Versailles by two Respectable English Ladies, who either experienced a joint hallucination, or travelled through time and saw Marie Antoinette
Image of widow surrounded by advertisement for mourning goods
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1891 advertisement for LATHAM’S Family Mourning Department, Chelsea
with prices for mourning goods like Widows’ Costumes, Skirt and Body fully Trimmed with Crape, £1 1s., £1 5s 6d., £1 9s. 6d.
Widows’ Crape Bonnets with Veil, 6s. 11d., 8s. 11d., 10s. 6d.