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Bob Fry

@bobfry.bsky.social

Overly fond of oolite, stars, folklore, photography, beetroot, fossils & other old things (& The Fall). All photographs my own, unless stated or reposted. Not the light! Not the light! IS IT BIN DAY?

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Hwæt!@hwaet.info · 5h ago

"Lo!" Beowulf, an Epic Poem. Translated from the Anglo-Saxon into English Verse, 1849 A. Diedrich Wackerbarth 🇬🇧

Bob Fry@bobfry.bsky.social · 6h ago

#WyrdWednesday Personification of John Barleycorn from the exhibition John Barleycorn Must Die held at the New Brewery Arts Centre, Cirencester, June to Aug 2019. Created by the artist Matt Rowe with the aide of Carol Partridge, a member of the Guild of Straw Craftsmen.

A figure made of barley stalks, sacking & hops, looming over the observer in a gallery
Bob Fry@bobfry.bsky.social · 12h ago

#WyrdWednesday Children of the Corn by Stephen King (1977) tells a tale of a remote town in the Nebraskan corn fields ruled by an evil entity called He Who Walks Behind Rows. Everyone is killed on their 19th birthday and a married couple who chance upon the town are ritually sacrificed.

The illustration for the first publication of the story by Don Punchatz (in Penthouse 1977)
Bob Fry@bobfry.bsky.social · yesterday

Various painful conditions have caused me to limp to the pub where I am drinking a cheap potent lager (apols to @richardmortimer.bsky.social) & eating Mini Cheddars (for which I apologies to no one) Please note shabby not at all iconic titfer. (Wish I could be as cool as Richard Mortimer) Cheers.

A pub table. Pint of lager, bag of mini cheddars and a shabby hat. People at the bar in the background.
Bob Fry@bobfry.bsky.social · yesterday

Sun Horse, Moon Horse My favourite Sutcliff novel “From somewhere far away in time and place, he knew the weary joy of his people’s homecoming to their herding runs between northern mountains and the sea. ‘Brother, go free,’ said Cradoc. He saw the sun-flash on the descending blade.”

The cover of Sun Horse, Moon Horse. A herd of wild horses running across the hillside beneath the White Horse of Uffington.
Simon Spanton@simonguy.bsky.social · yesterday

"Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse. And he wore a kingly crown; And in his grasp a sceptre shone; On his brow this mark I saw— 'I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!'" Happy birthday, Percy.

A photo of the Oxford 1988 reprint of Shelley's Poetical Works. The cover shows "Shelley composing 'Prometheus Unbound' in the baths of Caracalla" (which seems an unlikely scenario, frankly) by Joseph Sevérns.
The Ghost Monk@theghostmonk.bsky.social · yesterday

Dinas Bran, one of the #folklore hot-spots of #Wales. Here Bran the Blessed ruled; Payn Peverel slew the giant Goemagog; Tudur ap Einion was forced to dance with Y Tylwyth Teg; and here lies buried treasure, perhaps the Holy Grail, that will only be found by a boy with a white dog with silver eyes.

One of several paintings made of Dinas Bran by Richard Wilson - the so-called 'father' of British landscape painting - in the 18th Century.