Orangeblossom Old Ways

05/06/2026

So looking forward to this. If you have never heard Coracle Chamber Singers come along, you are in for an exquisite treat!! ♡ 🎶

Coracle Chamber Singers' next concert will be 13th June in St Catherine's Church, Barmby Moor near, York. Songs for MIRACLE, MYSTERY AND MAGIC! Come along for an unusual, eclectic and captivating programme, including folk songs, spell songs, a medieval motet for St Catherine, Rachmaninov's Bogoroditse Devo, Arvo Pärt, and contemporary works by Rebecca Dale, and Coracle's own Nigel Bartram. Thanks to Caroline Lewis for the beautiful poster art!

02/06/2026

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A very pleasing view...

I walk past our village allotment gardens every day and love to hear the murmur of gardeners talking to each other, swapping tips and enjoying the peace and quiet.

Community gardens are very special places. We have a vegetable patch and I have just started a cut flower bed.

Do you have an allotment plot? What do you grow there? Veggies? Flowers?

['The Allotment Gardens' is available as a signed limited edition print in mu €tsy sh0p]

02/06/2026

♡ Claire Porter

For those who put their faith in AI, please reconsider.
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Artwork credit (update): Baba Yaga by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, in Vasilisa the Beautiful, 1900 (sans whoever wrote text over the art for this meme.)

01/06/2026

31/05/2026

So much gratitude as we say goodbye to this beautiful month of May that started with a full Scorpio moon at Beltane and the Sacred Marriage of dear Amy & Matty. And ending with a full Sagittarius Moon and a sunset full of fire after a weekend of transformational magic with and a circle of women and their generous hearts 💕

24/05/2026

Babysitting my best friend's Peacock 🦚

17/05/2026

Bit of magic in everyday life ♡

17/05/2026

🌙 It's a New Moon Day 🌚
Enjoy this image of the universe , created in 1600 BCE.

Did you know this 3,600-year-old bronze plate is the world’s oldest realistic map of the night sky ?

Discovered in Germany, the Nebra Sky Disc proves our Bronze Age ancestors were dedicated stargazers.

Look closely at the gold leaf details: 🌕 The full circle: The Sun or a Full Moon .🌙 The crescent:

The Moon guidied early calendars.

🌌 The 7-dot cluster:

The Pleiades star cluster, was used to track farming seasons. 🚣

The bottom arc:

A cosmic "solar barge" carrying the sun across the sky.

Today, the original rests safely in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany. History is universal 💬 What is your favorite ancient mystery?

If you love history, the share and challenge your friends' knowledge