Pamela Thom-Rowe
@thom_roweOld tales, strange ways, hidden things, landscape, memories, history & context of folk history
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“You can decide right now to become a guardian of your local river, to hold it as sacred, and to look after and care for it on that basis” positive.news/society/for-th…
A wonderful arrival from @andtheHare...thank you! A beautiful book with the most excellent addition of tricksy foxes. Midsummer customs described by @thom_rowe, published by @graffeg_books
Bricks. Iron. Water. Georgian architecture meeting nature at Bratch locks S Staffs. Towpath now smooth with the passage of boot clog hoof & paw…echoes of past lives #bratchlocks #southstaffs #canalarchitecture #pastlives #navigators #Georgianarchitecture #18thcentury #canals
The liminality of Canals. Hacked out of cold clay, deep channels of water between earth & sky, conduit’s through an indifferent landscape. The more time I spend on canal the more engaged I am by their essence of the in between #canals #navigators #liminality #canalboats #borders
I live in Sadiq Khan's London & the doorbell just rang twice. First, a neighbour asking if she could take a sprig of our rosemary as she uses it to keep her blood pressure down. Then another asking if I could help open a jar of Calpol. It's an absolute hellscape out there.
Easter Even and all was quiet in the Sheep Church. It smelt of damp wool and damp plaster, of a faint amber linger of myrrh and the mud of the rain-eddied fields and the blackthorn which edged the paths from the Sea Road. The distant calls of herring gulls and the sweet song of a…
'Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions' #OTD 1881 Mary Webb was born in Leighton, Shropshire. Famous for her romantic novels & poems. #Shrewsbury
Crab Apple Vodka made from the fruits of an ancient tree at the lovely Heath Chapel in Shropshire. Shame I can’t give @wmarybeard a bottle as I understand its her favourite building #heathchapel #crabappplevodka #homebrew
Tomorrow is St Vitus's Day, an early martyr from southern Italy. Amongst from epilepsy & nervous diseases he is also patron saint of dancers, actors & mummers... #stvitus #earlysaints #patronsaints #dancers
Walk in the Bronze Age at Mitchell’s Fold where a witch was turned to stone (the old tales say a giant) & warriors sleep under hills of lead & stone #mitchellsfold #shropshirefolkore #bronzeage #folklore #whitegrit #giantcountry
From the apple growing county of Worcestershire comes a Georgian dish - Malvern Pudding. This is a caramelised sugar topped apple pudding with a creamy custard filling flavoured with cinnamon. In 2010 was said to be one of the ten most "threatened puddings". #FolkloreSunday
Old friends meet, sup dandelion coffee and mull over the woodland gossip. It’s late spring, twilight stretches out long and gently towards night. Food for foragers is plentiful and there is time to enjoy the scents of the growing meadow grasses and late spring flowers.
Claricia was a 13th-century German illuminator. Nothing is known about her life, but she is noted for a tiny self-portrait in a psalter of c. 1200, in which she depicts herself as swinging from the tail of a letter Q., with her name inscribed over her head. #WomenYouDeserveToKnow
There ain’t nothing like a dame! #pantomime #cinderella #uglysisters #tradition #nothinlikeadame #slapstick #matinee
Today is Candlemas, a festival of light in the lengthening days of early spring. An Anglo-Saxon sermon for this ancient and beautiful feast, when 'þæt soðe Leoht, Crist, wæs geboren to þam temple' ('the true Light, Christ, was borne to the temple'): aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2012/01/lfric-…
St Bride's Day. On this day Gille Brighde, the 'servants of Bride', appear bringing with them spring in all its glory. They are also known as Oystercatchers and long ago, Sea-pye. #stbride #stbridget #spring #oystercatchers #tradition #gillebrighde #seabirds
'All hail to the Moon, all Hail to thee I prithee good moon, reveal to me This Night who my Husband (or Wife) must be' Say to the years 1st new moon to dream of your true love John Aubrey 1695 #johnaubrey #folklore #17thcentury #newmoon #newyearmoon #dreaming
Wishing you all a wonderful New Year.... #newyear2024 #happynewyear24 #happynewyear #oldpostcard #1900s #maninthemoon
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