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Morning all, @frome_maude here, welcoming you to todayโs theme of:
THE LORE OF TREES, FORESTS, WOODLAND & GREEN SPACES.
Bring your posts to the hashtag #FolkloreSunday for a repost.
See you soon! Maude xx
Image: Bluebell Wood by Lucy Grossmith
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2pm to 4pm TODAY on @SkyArts
Both episodes of #Documentary๐บ โDickens in Italy with David Harewoodโ
The actor & writer follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens' journey through Italy's most beautiful cities, examining the country's influence on the author
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"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?".
C.L.Balfour
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"They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon."
Edward Lear,
The Owl and The Pussycat
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"Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full;
One for my master,
And one for my dame,
and one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane."
- English Nursery Rhyme (circa 1744) #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly
๐จ by Dorothy M. Wheeler
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#FairyFriday ๐ทโจ #TulipFairy ๐ท๐งโโ๏ธ
In English folklore, the Tulip Faeries once tended red blooms beside a hidden cottage. When a farmer tore them up for crops, the faeries vanishedโฆ and the red tulips with them.
Yet each full moon, they returnโblossoming only on one old womanโs grave, a quiet tribute to a motherโs love and lingering magic. ๐๐งโโ๏ธ
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๐จ Cicely Mary Barker
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Professor Janet Todd's 'definitive biography of Aphra Behn, the Royalist spy and pioneering Restoration dramatist, novelist and poet of the erotic', is one we can highly recommend! A fascinating life.
Aphra Behn died #onthisday in 1609. She was one of the first women to earn a living by writing plays and poetry, publishing under the pseudonym Astrea. She was also employed by Charles II as a spy during the Dutch War.
She is remembered in Virginia Woolfโs book A Room of Oneโs Own, with the lines: โAll women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.โ
ALT Inscribed stone floor memorial for Mrs. Aphra Behn, dated April 16, 1689. The engraving mentions, โHere lies a Proof that Wit can never be defence enough against Mortality.โ The text is carved in elegant, historical lettering, creating a solemn atmosphere.
ALT An intricate engraved portrait of Aphra Behn with softly curled hair and a calm expression, set against a patterned background. The style is historical, reminiscent of classic banknote or book illustration engravings.
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#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: โThe Dagda came with his club of anger, and sang the following words at Teme Mara [the Plain of Murthemne, Co. Louth, between Dundalk and the Boyne]., i.e., the shelter, or covering of the sea:
Silent thy hollow head,
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They weren't English and they weren't Latin. Burlingham described them as reminding him of the old nursery rhyme:
"There were three brothers over the sea.
Peri meri dixi domine
They sent three presents unto me
Petrum partrum paradisi tempore
Peri meri dixi domine."
"The Dabblers" by William Fryer Harvey
๐จGabbo Elรญas
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A little bit of Spike Milligan for you for #BookologyThursday ๐
I remember I had his book Milliganimals when I was a kid.
Thanks for the memories, Spike.
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Done and done! And also: a book review (chase it down on Goodreads if you want). goodreads.com/review/show/84โฆ
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#BookologyThursdayโs BookCat & the Mothers of #WyrdWednesday & give you:
โAbsurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymesโ
Little Willie hung his sister;
She was dead before we missed her.
Willie's always up to tricks.
Ain't he cute? He's only six.
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In memory of Spike Milligan, #BOTD in India in 1918.
Illustration by Eric Kincaid.
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Whales have calves,
Cats have kittens,
Bears have cubs,
Bats have bittens*
Swans have cygnets,
Seals have puppies,
But guppies just have little guppies.
Ogden Nash
*Bitten is an invented rhyme. A baby bat is a โpupโ
Avril Haynes #BookologyThursday
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#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: โWhich way didst thou take after that?โ said Emer.
โNot hard to tell,โ said #Cuchulaind. โโฆ over the Great Secret of the Men of Dea. โฆ`
What did the Hound of Ulster mean by that?
Source: celt.ucc.ie/published/T30102โฆ
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ALT Roughly the area of the Great Secret of the men of Dea, Co Louth, map data ยฉ Google 2026
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"Four and Twenty Tailors" (trad. nursery rhyme)
*Should read 'Kyloe cow'
#book #illustration by Doris Burton (active early 20th century, UK)
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A limerick about Miss Winifred's cake, from "My Fairy Story Book", Treasure Hour Children's Books, reprint 1971. Illustrator uncredited.
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