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“They speak of hope to the fainting heart;
With a voice of promise they come and part;
They sleep in dust through the winter hours;
They break forth in glory; bring flowers, bright flowers.” — Mrs Hemans
Narcissus and tulip at Ascott House to wish you a Happy Easter Monday.
ALT Collage of spring flowers at Ascott House: clusters of white narcissus with soft yellow centres among green buds; drifts of pink and coral tulip; close view of yellow daffodil with orange trumpet; taller daffodil rising above tulip, all set against fresh green foliage.
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Thank you all for your wonderful posts today & Happy Easter to you all!
Next week’s theme, as we start to look more towards breaks & getaways, is:
LORE of the COAST
Bring your posts to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost after 10:30 am BST.
See you then! Maude xx
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Narcissus Poeticus is the last daffodil to flower & is so-called as it has always been the inspiration for poets. In Greek myth Narcissus was turned into the daffodil by Nemesis. It is also the flower Persephone was gathering when she was abducted by Pluto. #FairyTaleTuesday
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'The Anatomy of Melancholy': 'Shall I wrap it up or will you read it now? Art: Ronald Searle 1920-2011
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This #BookologyThursday
Join us this #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme:
Memorable Places
from mansions and huts to wardrobes and TARDISes…
in literature, art, and lore.
🎨Frank Moss Bennett (1923)
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#WyrdWednesday 📖
Poetic magic from Christina Rossetti’s Sing-Song (1872):
“Delicate and dainty thing!
For the fairies you were fashioned;
Than a flavour so impassioned
Pine and grape no richer being.”
🎨 "A Dish of Apples" by Arthur Rackham (1921), for Eden Phillpotts' book. 🍏📗
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#WyrdWednesday
Theme: Rhyme & Riddles
In 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit—full of riddles in the dark!
The Hobbit (Riddles in the Dark):
“What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?” (Answer: Mountain)
—The Hobbit, Gollum’s riddle
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🎨1942: Children's Book Club edition's— dust jacket
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‘Two of my favourites from ‘
The Hare and the Tortoise’ illustrated by Paul Galdone 🐰🐢
#bookchatweekly #vintagebooks #illustration #picturebook #kidsbook
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In some versions of the Greek myth, the Sphinx asks a second riddle: "There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first. Who are the two sisters?" The answer is "day and night" (both words are feminine in Ancient Greek).
#WyrdWednesday
ALT Oedipus ponders the riddle of the Sphinx. A red-figure kylix from Attica, Greece (c. 470 BCE).
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7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 2017, Ep 8 (of 10) 📻 “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4” - “Political Awakenings”
Sue Townsend's 1982 novel📖 abridged by Sara Davies & read by Harry McEntire.
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Join us this #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme:
Memorable Places
from mansions and huts to wardrobes and TARDISes…
in literature, art, and lore.
🎨Frank Moss Bennett (1923)
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“Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.”
― Paul Klee
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Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy apparently had quite an influence on John Keats. He annotated his copy liberally, highlighting supposed cures for heartache and 'Love-melancholy', and even adapted Burton's retelling of the Lycius and Lamia tale into his own 'Lamia' poem.
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In Chinese #folklore, a tiger’s true power is not only in its claws, but in the mystery hidden within its body. Its kill is described as eerily deliberate, allowing the corpse to undress before feeding. Beneath the skin near the waist and at the tip of the tail lies its 1/3
ALT 虎殺人，能令屍起自解衣，方食之。虎威如乙字，長一寸，在脅兩旁皮內，尾端亦有之。佩之臨官佳，無官人所冒嫉。虎夜視，一目放光，一目看物。獵人候而射之，光墜入地成白石，主小兒驚。~《酉陽雜俎 -> 卷十六·廣動植之一》
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#WednesdayReads
#BookReview
#MollyMarpleMystery
#CozyMystery
#WritingCommunity
@carolyngrace505
Molly Marple Mystery by Carolyn Haynes is a delightfully twisty read with just the right blend of intrigue and heart.
Molly is the kind of heroine you can’t help but root for, making this a cozy, page-turning mystery that lingers like a good story should. 📖 😸 ❤️
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The mythological horse Enbarr could go over land and sea! He was the property of the Irish sea god Manannán mac Lir. He was provided to Lugh to use at his disposal. Enbarr was also said to be 'swifter than the wind'! In my Lí Ban the mermaid story in my book! 📷Shedevrum 🐎
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“Lo! in the middle of the wood,
The folded leaf is woo’d from out the bud”
The month of April is often said to derive from the Latin aperire, “to open”. It is the budding month, when the buds of trees swell, and blossoms and vernal-green leaves burst forth from the winter bonds.
ALT Collage of spring tree buds and blossom: fresh green leaves unfurling, clusters of white blossom, pink buds just opening, and tight buds swelling on branches, all set against soft green backgrounds, capturing the early stages of April growth and renewal.
