Dr Meri C Dickson

@earbyfae.bsky.social

PhD in Religious Studies Living liminally between Yorkshire and Lancashire, fairyologist, jinnologist, supernaturalist, ECR, jejune philosopher, socialist. #TheGreenParty https://open.substack.com/pub/drmericdickson She/her 🔯☪️✝️🕉️☸️☯️🪯🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🏳️‍🌈

There is an old belief that walking through a ripe wheat field at dusk could be dangerous, because harvest spirits, fairy folk, or wandering souls were thought to move among the golden stalks after sunset. The safest path, folklore advised, was the one that stayed along the edge. #WyrdWednesday

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We've had some gorgeous pics of our campus ducklings shared with us recently! 🦆🐤🐤 Don't forget to tag us if you manage to get a snap of our fluffiest inhabitants 📸 📸 1 & 2: Jessica Fisher 📸 3: AbramTom (on Instagram)

Two ducklings standing on a low wall.Two ducklings in the pond near Engineering One.A duck and six ducklings (five brown and one yellow) walk beside a building on campus.

Where on earth does Badenoch get the bare faced cheek to pop back into the #R4today to pontificate about early release? It’s ONLY happening because the Tories deliberately & negligently cut funding without a plan to manage services through their austerity

Rod Liddle, who once wrote in The Spectator that he couldn’t work as a teacher because he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from shagging the kids, has died aged 66. I won’t be shedding any tears, personally.

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