On Wednesdays We Wear Black

"Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it" Tom Hodgkinson, founder of contemporary magazine 'The Idler' and advocate of hammock days 🎨 The art of dandified idling #WyrdWednesday

According to Welsh tradition, "Whoever sleeps on Snowdon will awake either a poet or a madman". A couple of hundred years ago, two minstrels, Huwcyn Siôn y Canu & Huw Belisa, tested this out. On waking, one was "inspired by the celestial muse, the other quite bereaved of his senses" #WyrdWednesday

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves on the New Brighton Beach Promenade, Wallasey

Am too idle to tell #WyrdWednesday an entire tale; instead, here's the pith: "Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre" Camus 'A Happy Death' (written between 1936–1938)

A sad day for the north east 🖤🤍 RIP Kevin Keegan, pictured in the mural with fellow footballing icon, Bobby Robson. Standing proud near the gates of St James' Park & sponsored by @newcastleunited.com 'Wor Peter' marks 40 years of St Oswald's Hospice providing support to patients and loved ones

'Two Owls at Sunset' (c. 1860) is attributed to an artist who went by the pseudonym 'Didymus' meaning double or twin. The pairing of the owls and the branches suggests reflection and relationship #OwlishMonday

#BlueSkyArtShow compact clusters of ash pollen #growing in spring #EastCoastKin

GR post box built into The Steamboat real ale and rum pub in South Shields. Built in 1850, it expanded to encompass the old post office in 1941 #PostBoxSaturday

Some of the design notes for this year's production were on display in the Bar Convent heritage centre. Such skill and imagination went into the pageantry

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society" 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' Charles Dickens (1839) 📸 Lewis W. Hine child labourers (early 20th century) #BookWormSat

Hollyhock this afternoon #FridayFlowers #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin

Each shrouded, howling ghost is doomed to bear a writhing flame: this is its own soul. Failure to overcome the Fortress of Fear in life has trapped these phantoms in the Land of Illusion for eternity 🎨 Daisy Makeig-Jones 'Ghostly Wood' inspired by the 'Legend of Croquemitaine' #PhantomsFriday

Sea rocket or cakile maritima - cakile from its Arabic name + Latin maritimus of, or from, the sea. Coastal currents carry sea rocket around our shores. #AquaticPlants on Spittal beach, Tweedmouth yesterday #wildflowerhour

GR pillar box in the coastal town of Spittal #PostBoxSaturday @folkloresociety.bsky.social

#BlueSkyArtShow Saturday July 11, 2026 The #Quiet of an early summer evening in Sedbergh

"The meadow was on a level with Jacob's eyes as he lay back; gilt with buttercups, but the grass did not run like the thin green water of the graveyard grass about to overflow the tombstones, but stood juicy and thick" 'Jacob’s Room' Virginia Woolf 📸 mine Sunday 24 May, 2026 #BookWormSat

flowering gorse bush leaning over towards the sea as if its growth were towards completion of yellow in blue Thomas A. Clark (2014) 🎨 Peregrine Mulvogue Feeney (c.1885) #BookWormSat

Under a Resolution of the House of Commons of 2 March 1624, Members of Parliament cannot directly resign their seat. But there are other ways it can be vacated. See this Parliamentry briefing p. 14, section 4.6 entitled 'Imprisonment and Treason'. Just saying. #Farage

Not so much #ThickTrunkTuesday as Thick Trunkses! Multi trunked tree in an ancient northern woodland

#WeekAforAbandoned Seems like its residents have vacated this churchyard vault #AlphabetChallenge

A magnificent headpiece for #OwlishMonday It was created for an 1890 Crystal Palace Christmas eve panto. "Oh no, it wasn't!" "Oh yes, it was!" The designer Wilhelm was famous for spectacular costumes including this owl headdress, crescent moon staff, necklace of stars & shimmering golden-blue robe

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, & by the time it is printed & bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again #BookWormSat

On Wednesdays We Wear Black 🖤

Impossible to miss the six stone circles atop the peat-rich wilds of Machrie Moor, but what lies buried beneath? Yesterday archaeologists revealed that a seventh circle lies under the surface. Under the surface: that dark and secret place where all that is wyrd smoulders ... #WyrdWednesday

A tree trunk's mossy blanket traps moisture and provides protection from harsh sunlight enabling sorrel to thrive in ancient woodland #ThickTrunkTuesday #EastCoastKin @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Athena with an Owl c. 450 BC. Athena's ancient epithet Glaukopis (γλαυκῶπις) translates to "bright-eyed" or "owl-eyed" representing her ability to see into any situation with clarity and insight #OwlishMonday

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYonder #StunDay View across the valley onto ancient volcanic hills #Northumberland #EastCoastKin

Wyrdly cool things happening in the Biddick Arts Centre, Washington (no, not that one) tonight @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” 'The Use of Life' John Lubbock 🎨 'Galatée' (detail) Jean-François Jalabert #BookWormSat