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First there is a mountain,then there is no mountain, then there is.
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood. #BookWormSat 🎨 Augustus John
There wont be a Romano British teenager enslaved in Mayo tonight...
The whole Mayo curse thing is a purely modern fakelore attempt at explanation... however the national folklore collection is full of accounts of St Patrick cursing certain areas, landscapes and children of Mayo, the location of his childhood captivity. My favourite one has him cursing the children..
..of a location near the wood of foclut so that they would never have any sense of smell. These esrly modern takes are variations on an early medieval theme. In Tírecháins account of the Saint,(a Mayo man himself) he curses peoples locations and dynasty 6 times. 4 of them are in Mayo...
Sadly parts of Spain and France are seeing huge wildfires with over 40,000 hectares in France impacted and temperatures over 40c will hit parts Spain and France later this coming week.
After all, the cherry blossom blooms every year, but does anyone find it the less lovely for that? Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book. #BookWormSat 🎨 Getty Images
Greetings pastry pickers! It’s Friday morning, it’s the Farmers’ Market, that means…. #coffeeandcakefriday
The beginnings of turning the office/box room into a sort of music room/listening space. Selection of what’s to be listened to over the next while.
Mary Magdalene's little-known early life as a bartender, by Andrea Solario, 1525. It's her feast day today.
3/3 Another totally fab Magdalene with A+ applied ornamentation by Crivelli, 1487, for the Feast Day of Mary Magdalene.
NME, September 24th 1977. Bolan has just died / Bowie announces Heroes
If you haven't seen it yet, BBC's montage at the end of the World Cup was fucking tremendous www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Fi...
BBC FIFA World Cup 2026 Closing Montage
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The team trying to play football win. Well done to Spain 🇪🇸
Quick update on yesterday’s post about theatre going in the heat. @gatetheatre.bsky.social did have ac, which meant we thoroughly enjoyed the production of The Brightening Air by Conor Mc Pherson, with a stellar cast
FUCK/PUBLISHING When asked by her publisher why her work had not been submitted while on her honeymoon: "I've been too fucking busy or vice versa.” ― Dorothy Parker
Miss Cardew seems to me a most attractive young lady, now that I look at her. Few girls of the present day have any really solid qualities, any of the qualities that last, and improve with time. Oscar Wilde- The Importance Of Being Earnest- #BookWormSat 🎨 Maggie Smith as Lady Bracknell
Some lovely stuff by Brian Case on RBP this week if you subscribe. On Nick Kent "He looked like an El Greco wasted saint or something, like he should be peppered with arrows." On CSM "Charlie had the feeling that no gig could start until he was in his seat or at the bar."
What possessed us to book theatre tickets in this weather? #TheHeat
Classical in its beauty. Better that Banksy could ever conjure. The blank uncomprehending stare into the Brexit abyss by a man who has constantly been let down by a Nation's inability to go back to the 1950s via 1966. I don't understand it Beryl. I just don't understand it. What happened?
Only just caught up with @louiseann.bsky.social on her most recent Secret Handshake show, on @lwstdfm.bsky.social . Her best yet, not a duff track on it, but particularly loved Fluke, Mass Density Human and Youth In Asia, along with the usual spicy interludes. Keep up the good work L.
@barryglendenning.bsky.social returns the fearometer to the cupboard for another four years. #ENGvARG
