Laurapicklechop
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Veg grower 👩🌾 proud @RamblersGB member 🥾and voyager aboard life’s magic swirling ship. ⛺️✨
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This canister is surely enchanted? 🏰🥀✨
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Essential hibernation prep! 🐿
🎨illustration by Italian illustrator/cartoonist, Franco Matticchio.
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This old holloway is bounded by the Icknield Way on one side and the Oxfordshire Way on the other.
#theoldways
#footpath
@RobGMacfarlane
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Wistman’s Wood in Dartmoor, England, where the oldest oaks are 500 years old. The name may derive from ‘wisht’ (eerie, uncanny or haunted), and the wood is said to harbour the Devil’s black hounds as they go on their Wild Hunt, chasing sinners or the unbaptised. 🐺 🌳 🐺 🌳
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In Shetland and Orkney supernatural creatures called Trows live underground or in hollow hills and mounds. They are very fond of music, and have been known to kidnap musicians or lure them to their dens.🎵🎶
#FolkloreThursday
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Thought you'd never see a 1,600 year old yew tree? Well now you have. This old fellow is still loving life at Hope Bagot in Shropshire after 1,600 years (since Roman times), drawing up water from the holy well that nourishes it.
#yewtreesofengland
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Happy weekend everybody. If anybody needs me I’ll be drinking wine in my new book nook 🍷📖
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Served to my friend at a restaurant in Iceland. Can’t decide if it’s meant to represent a campfire or a chicken’s foot.
@WeWantPlates
#wewantplates
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👉Me: Finishing Day 27 of
@yogawithadriene
’s Joy playlist
👉Grandad: Walks in, finds me sprawled on the floor in Shavasana (corpse pose), raises the alarm🚨
👉Parents: “she’s doing her yoga”
👉Grandad: “I thought yoga was something you eat”
😂Gotta love being home for Xmas 🧘♀️🙏
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“I think all the best children’s books are set at Christmas... in that period between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, when there seems to be a suspension of time, a magical time out of time... a time when Herne the Hunter is abroad... the hinge of the year.”
~ Katherine Swift
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To be clear I’m not receiving commission on these but the photo is from . It’s called “canister with attitude” and available in multiple colours 😂 I don’t own one but wish I did!
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@41Strange
It’s a similar story at Sedlec Ossuary in Czech Republic, where the remains of plague and war victims were deliberately exhumed in the early 16th century and later used for decorative purposes. The chandelier is host to every kind of bone in the human body.
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Interviewer: “where do you see yourself in ten years’ time?”
Me:
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Absolutely love these stained glass works by
@TamsintheShed
. Rural Britain has never looked so good 😍
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Ever since Pinterest introduced me to the work of Phoebe Wahl I keep coming back to it. It’s somehow vibrant, bold and delicate all at once 🥰
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When you’re a hopeless romantic but like to keep things real.
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Buttercups and delicate heads of cow parsley glimpsed through branches of hawthorn 🌳
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☘️In Ireland a red-haired lady was believed to bring bad luck at sea and lower the catch. Seamen would protect themselves by carrying a stick or piece of rowan tree to stave off the evil eye. 🧿 🌳 This also protected against the “curse of a scorned widow”.
#folklorethursday
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Downloaded
@Tell_StreetLink
and logged a rough sleeper on the app. Today I received this email. Apart from providing access to services for those sleeping rough at night, this gives me something to say other than “no sorry” when I’m approached by a homeless person. Please Retweet
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❄️❄️❄️Happy Winter Solstice to all my Twitter friends. ❄️❄️❄️
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In Wilcote, England, is an old walled well with stone steps going down to it. It is called the Lady’s Well, and on Palm Sunday local girls would take bottles of liquorice, fill the bottles with well water to make ‘Spanish juice’, then walk round the well.
#FolkloreThursday
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Johnny Depp is NOT the abuser, but the abusee.
#justiceforjohnnydepp
How Amber Heard Co-Opted the
#MeToo
Movement, and How the Mainstream Media Helped Her
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As all my adventures this year have been cancelled I’m taking refuge in old photos. And what could be nicer than a Cornish cliff blooming with bluebells? Taken near Port Isaac, 2018.
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My mom is a skilled knitter so for Christmas I gave her a woodland-themed pattern book. Then for my birthday she knitted me these 🥰🍄
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Guilty as charged 🙋♀️ Multiple offences I’m afraid.
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One of several magical symbols to be found in the Sorcerer’s Cottage, a 17th century turf house at Klúka, Iceland. This one is carved into the doorpost and was thought to guard against theft. 🧙♂️
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Rainbow contours, West Highland Way, Scotland. 🏴 🌈
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the wild lupin is Queen among invasive plants. I can’t get enough of them! 👑💜
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The Grimm Forest illustrated fairytale wood at Gibson Mill. “A paper forest conjured from the leaves of a book and inspired by the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm”. Each tree has a corresponding tale printed beneath it.
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Grabbist Hill Dunster, UK, where a dip in the hill is said to be the armchair of the Giant of Grabbist. "According to legend, he was a very kindly Giant, who amongst other things when waving his hands caused a breeze that dried the villagers' washing."
#folklorethursday
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For
@clungreenman
crowds gather on Clun Bridge to witness a battle between the Frost Queen, with her entourage of Icicles, and the Green Man with his May Queen. His leafy face represents nature, fertility and the cycle of death and rebirth.
via
@CountryfileMag
#folklorethursday
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@RobGMacfarlane
@StanleyDonwood
I wasn’t familiar with hagstones before reading The Old Ways but always look out for them now. 👀 Here are some finds from Cromarty, Scottish Higlands; I snapped these photos and then put them back for others to discover.
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@HWarlow
Reminds me of Wilderhope Manor in the Shropshire hills, where I camped a few years back.
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@RobGMacfarlane
On a foraging course I was told the white leaves taste of marzipan/almonds and this is because they have a trace of cyanide in them! Sure enough, they do. 🖤☠️
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Huge thanks to
@RamblersGB
@PenguinUKBooks
and
@RobGMacfarlane
for this stunning hardback copy of Underland, I will treasure it. Glad you liked my photo of the holloway at Watlington!
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The show that nature put on for us today was so extraordinary that even the trees were marvelling at it.
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£3 from Hardy’s Bookshop in Welshpool, published in 1977. I love the gold foil on the jacket 😊🤓
#folklorethursday
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In my lockdown mind these boulders heave themselves out of the moss come nightfall and roll around the moors searching for a tearoom or a pint of Black Sheep.
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Stopped to capture this on my commute today. A rainbow shining defiantly (and beautifully) in the absence of rain 🌈
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Found a deserted tumbledown cottage in the Cumbrian hills. Bagsy mine. ⛰ 🏠 ⛰ 🐑
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“It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." 🌍🙌
—John Muir
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Ramsons, celandines, geums, avens, herb robert... you name it, was in the woods today.
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“Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.”
~Thomas Carlyle
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Norman church (St John the Baptist) on the same site as the yew in Hope Bagot. The churchyard has been allowed to grow wild with daisies and clover.
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So I recently moved to an old house with a cellar. The TV frequently turns itself on in the night and the living room door, even when tightly shut, has started to open by itself. Is it time to call Ghostbusters?
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The roads suddenly became treacherous while I was out today so I had to abandon the car at the village pub and finish the journey home on foot 😱 I took this photo, gratefully, five minutes from my door in West Yorkshire
#winterwonderland
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How am I coping with the Coronavirus situation? Thank you for asking.
~ Illustration by
@hellomissmay
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Dinas Brân castle, Wales. (a.k.a Crow Castle / Crow City / Hill of the Crow / Bran's Stronghold - you choose!) 🐦⬛
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The sycamore tree is associated with melancholy lovers, who are "sick-amour," so a sycamore tree, with its spreading branches and flaking bark, would provide an appropriate lurking-place for a melancholy lover. [via ]
#FolkloreThursday
Photo: Sycamore Gap
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So the house I’m hoping to rent up north has a cellar... not sure whether to be excited or creeped out. Any thoughts? 🤔
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Been working hard in the garden! Nothing like a bit of manual labour to lift the spirits ☺️
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@RobGMacfarlane
@StanleyDonwood
I suppose this is quite a large hagstone too, though whether naturally formed, I’m not sure 🤔 (Men-An-Tol, Penwith).
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Pasqueflower or Easter flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) traditionally provided a bright green dye for Easter eggs. Also known as ‘Danes’ blood’ owing to its association with Danish invaders in southern England. 🩸 🇩🇰 🏴
#FolkloreThursday
Photo credits: Wikimedia; Flickr: Wackystuff
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Mist in the valley, yet I saw,
And in my soul I knew
The gleaming City whence I draw
The strength that then I drew,
My misty pathway to pursue
With steady pulse and breath
Through these dim forest-ways of dew
And darkness, life and death.
~ Alfred Noyes
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So I moved into the house with the cellar and my landlady left instructions asking me not to disturb the two frogs that live in the log pile. Suddenly I feel so much happier about going down there 😊🐸
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What a gorgeous picture this paints. The dream 😌
Taken from the book I'm currently reading, The Morville Year by Katherine Swift.
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“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
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A family of deer playing in the field opposite my house 🦌 🥰
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Mountains make a mockery of everything. Here are a few from my Highland travels this week.⛰⛰
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@Bob41Dylan
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow 🎶
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Please help me. I spent my evening watching Pride and Prejudice and now I’m trapped in this horrible cycle. 🙈💔
#JaneAusten
#PrideandPrejudice
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Me, an INFJ: “Always be kind to others and one day those kindnesses will be returned to you.”
Also me, on realising the naivety of that assumption:
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INFJ here 🙋♀️ Is anybody else cursed 🙊 I mean blessed with this personality type?
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The Twelve Apostles stone circle on Ilkley Moor is said to pre-date Stone Henge by 1,000 years. Here it is today looking stoic under a cloudy Yorkshire sky. ☁️
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“What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?”
~ From I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 📖
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Always be the person who picks up a bug on the path and carries it to safety. 🐞🐛🐝
#internationalkindnessday
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Forbury Gardens in Reading is home to the most muscly representation of a lion I think I’ve ever seen 👀🦁
@ForburyGardener
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📍Shropshire: Most underrated county in the UK.🏅This taken earlier today with my old man on Hope Bowdler Hill. Combined with the climb up Caer Caradoc on the other side of the valley, this easily rivals any of the Lakeland peaks imho. 💜
#visitshropshire
@VisitShropHills
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