Nina Antonia
@NinaAntonia13
Represented by Kevin Pocklington @ North Literary Agency
With an host of furious fancies, whereof I am commander,...' L.A.M.F
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Dadtastic noticeboard outside the Olympic Records store, which sells mostly discs recorded at Olympic studio's in its hey day. The studio, which is now a restaurant, with a new recording facility is just across the road.
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#FolkloreSunday# A tongue in cheek illustration by Charles Addams featuring television's favorite fiendish family recoiling from a scene in 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane' (1962) a harrowing exploration of the darkest depths of sibling rivalry.
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The Philosopher's Stoned: Writing on the wall Westminster last week.
#Caturday# An example of Top Cat topiary by contemporary Canadian artist, Eric Fan.
The amazing 'Walfisch Blitzbank' Whale-Mobile, 1920's, which advertised house hold cleaning products. Although it is described as 'Grotesque' in the caption, it is really quite wonderful.
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I will be talking Lunar Moths to the esteemed Robert Elms on BBC Radio London at 1 o'clock today. Turn on, Tune in.........
#LAMFriday# The Heartbreakers, Johnny, Jerry, Walter, & Billy at their peak, playing the Vortex, London, July 77 & the Village Gate, NY, August 77. They had to leave London briefly due to visa issues.
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My customary Bosie & Oscar birthday card from the Estate of Lord Alfred Douglas. 'We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the cards....'✨
#WyrdWednesday#
'You sunburnt sicklemen of August weary
Come hither from the furrow & be merry
Make holiday, your ryestraw hats put on
And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
In country footing' (Shakespeare/Corn Mother Photo Benjamin Stone, 1902)
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#WhitheringHeightsWednesday# 'The Withered Hags were Free!' It must be a sale. (art Howard Pyle)
'Sleep well' said Peter Grimm 'I wish you the very pleasantest of dreams.....' As long as you don't wake up & see a scary clown perched over your bed. ('The Return of Peter Grimm' David Belasco, 1912)
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#FairyTaleTuesday# The Queen of Elphame (The Elfin Queen of Faerie) whisking away Thomas The Rhymer in one of Scotland's greatest folkloric ballads. Her seductive role is paralleled in 'Tam Lin', who escapes with the help of a mortal woman, unlike Thomas who returns to his otherworldly amour. (image H.M Brock's Book of Ballads)
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He is the Walrus - played by Mr. Stavely in the 1898 stage production of Alice in Wonderland at the Opera Comique, London. The Oyster was played by either Miss Beaden or Miss De Becker. Hard to tell really.
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#OwlishMonday# Lovely illustration by author & artist, Kathleen Hale (1898-2000) creator of 'Orlando the Marmalade Cat', the first book from a series of 19, was originally published in 1938.
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#FolkloreSunday# #StainedGlassSunday# Image of St. Francis of Assisi, St Martin Church, Leicester. Designed by Aidan McRae Thomson.
'When Francis preached love to the birds
They listened, fluttered, throttled up
Into the blue like a flock of words'.
(Seamus Heaney 1913-2013)
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They perch beneath strange skies
London is not an easy city to live in but it still has unexpected gifts, decorative details on the grand front of old houses & a statue of St. Francis of Assisi on the site of a former Franciscan priory, now a school. Clues to the past & indications of what once was.
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#Caturday# 'King of The Cats' illustrated by Vera Bock 1905-1973.
'And still of a winter's night, they say when the wind is in the trees
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding
Riding-riding-
A highwayman comes riding up to the old inn door' (Alfred Noyes 1906/ art Charles Mikolaycak)
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Forget me Not but stick pins in my ❤️?
