This copy of Alice in Wonderland was posted on Reddit, due to water damage it's grown spores and has actual mushrooms growing out of it. Sad, yet strangely fitting.
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"Ghost Apples" in the Fruit Ridge area of Kent County, Michigan - An unusual phenomenon when freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall, the apple turns mushy and eventually slips out, leaving the icy shell still hanging on the tree.
Photos: Woodtv8
‘My name is Thomas Dambo. I build giant wooden trolls around the world and hide them in wilderness and forests. By doing this, I hope to lure people away from concrete cities and computer screens, into the wild and reconnect them with the natural world’
Finally...on my birthday...dad finally coming home today after 2 and half months fighting Covid19!! For a 74yr old severely ill man he’s a trooper 😃🤩 best birthday gift!
A voluntary collective online is working on 700,000 pages of folklore collected throughout Ireland between 1937 and 1939. This material was gathered by more than 100,000 children who were sent to seek out the oldest person in their community
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‘Witch bee’ riding tiny broomstick to feature in Attenborough’s Wild Isles
Insect flies with grass stalks it uses to conceal its nest, which is made of disused snail shells
While undergoing my first chemo, thought would meditate and draw Eostre. (Wobbly as experienced tingly fingers lol) was a hard day, but was good to focus on the incoming new energy 🤗✨🌱🕸
Last chemo officially done 😅😃🙏 so bloody chuffed! (3-6 month checks for 5yrs 🤞) discharged to medical team for checks onwards. Thanking all you fab Twitter friends near and far who have been supportive...it has made a difference. Thank you 🙏✨🙌
In 19C a sarcophagus belonging to a girl named Crepereia Tryphaena, who lived in 2nd C Rome.She has an ivory doll with jointed legs and arms that could be moved.The doll came with a little box of clothes and ornaments for Crepereia to dress her in.
#DollsPuppetsToys
‘fairy stones have been called by many names over the centuries including Witch Stones,Adder Stones,Snake Eggs,Hex Stones,Holy Stones, Holeys, and Eye Stones...they should be considered a sacred object.’
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Happy Beltane, Calan Mai or May Day to you all. Fire can bring many gifts, but it can burn. Leaving ash...but from ash comes growth. Keep safe, take sunlight, give care, love, joy and take rest. Have hope, health and warmth.Take growth.✨🍃🔥🌞🌿✨
So, updating 🤗 after having 4cm tumour removed & sigmoid colectomy.They found cancer was in 2 of lymph nodes by tumour.
So was in 2 of 22 lymph’s they removed from bowel area. So they feel that they have ‘caught it’ with a mop up chemotherapy planned. Feeling grateful 🤗✨🌱🕸
Good news! Dad does not have Covid!! 🤗😂🤩🤞 thank you all for you support and dm’s. He’s still in for next week as he’s struggling with mobility, but coming back to his cheeky self 😉✨
On the new moon I have received some of the best news…my first body check since being diagnosed with cancer, after operation and chemotherapy…I am cancer free for year 1 check (4 more to go) I am utterly chuffed 🤗✨🕸🍃
‘new research suggests that ravens - birds singled out by many cultures as a symbol of intelligence and wisdom-share some of the human ability to think abstractly about other minds,adapting their behavior by attributing their own perceptions to others.’
The real Winnie the Pooh and gang - Gifted by the author A.A.Milne to his son Christopher Robin. Around 1920. They are now in the New York Public Library.
Tradition once banned for being too noisy returns to Penzance
A giant crow wearing a crown died three times, but was resurrected by horn-blowers making as much noise as possible to drive out the devil of winter
“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.”