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Apr 22
Greetings, dear Bibliophiles! Apologies for the recent absence. I’ve just committed to an adventurous project that will require a 3 month hiatus from #BookologyThursday. #BookChatWeekly resumes next week. Thank you for your understanding, and looking forward to seeing you here!
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Apr 22
Greetings, dear Bibliophiles! Apologies for the recent absence. I’ve just committed to an adventurous project that will require a 3 month hiatus from #BookologyThursday. #BookChatWeekly resumes next week. Thank you for your understanding, and looking forward to seeing you here!
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Morning all, @frome_maude here, welcoming you to today’s 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 #Documentary📺 “Dickens in Italy with David Harewood”
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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Apr 16
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French children’s book illustrator Loic Jouannigot
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Apr 16
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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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Apr 17
"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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Apr 17
"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
🎨 by Dorothy M. Wheeler
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Apr 17
RT @NiftyBuckles: #FairyFriday 🌷✨ #TulipFairy 🌷🧚♀️
In English folklore, the Tulip Faeries once tended red blooms beside a hidden cottage.…
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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.
Apr 16
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 Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own, with the lines: ‘All 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.’
ALT Inscribed stone floor memorial for Mrs. Aphra Behn, dated April 16, 1689. The engraving mentions, “Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be defence enough against Mortality.” 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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Custard the dragon had big sharp teeth,
And spikes on top of him and scales underneath,
Mouth like a fireplace, chimney for a nose,
And realio, trulio, daggers on his toes.
~Nash
Thank you for your flummadiddle
posts, dear Bibliophiles!
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#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘The 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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Apr 16
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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
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Apr 16
A little bit of Spike Milligan for you for #BookologyThursday 📚
I remember I had his book Milliganimals when I was a kid.
Thanks for the memories, Spike.
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Apr 16
Done and done! And also: a book review (chase it down on Goodreads if you want). goodreads.com/review/show/84…
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Apr 16
#BookologyThursday’s BookCat & the Mothers of #WyrdWednesday & give you:
“Absurd Words, Nonsense Poems, and Nursery Rhymes”
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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Apr 16
In memory of Spike Milligan, #BOTD in India in 1918.
Illustration by Eric Kincaid.
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Apr 16
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 ‘pup’
Avril Haynes #BookologyThursday
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#BookologyThursday #WyrdWednesday #Celtic: ‘Which way didst thou take after that?’ said Emer.
‘Not hard to tell,’ said #Cuchulaind. ‘… over the Great Secret of the Men of Dea. …`
What did the Hound of Ulster mean by that?
Source: celt.ucc.ie/published/T30102…
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ALT Roughly the area of the Great Secret of the men of Dea, Co Louth, map data © Google 2026
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Apr 16
"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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