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The Pied Piper of Hamelin was hired to rid a town of their rat problem using his magic flute- however he was refused payment so he waited till the adults were at church and returned dressed in green to lure all the children away.
🖼️Kate Greenaway

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2023-02-20

Happy everyone!
The Self-Heal Flower Fairy, by Cicely Mary Barker, 1923

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2023-02-17

"Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

🎨 Walter Schnackenberg

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2023-02-17

“The world has always been the same -
An endless farce, an antic game,
A universal masquerade!” (Goethe)

🎨 AbigailLarson

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2023-02-16

"Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades." (Isak Dinesen)

🎨 Hofer

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2023-02-14

“To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying” (Ted Hughes)

🎨 Teagan White

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2023-01-29

“‘Why is a raven like a writing-desk?
‘Have you guessed the riddle yet?’ the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.”
—Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

🎨 Tenniel & Rackham

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2023-01-28

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
—Lewis Carroll

🎨 John Tenniel

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2023-01-28

Happy Birthday to Lewis Carroll! Not his, un-birthday, mind you. 🎂😉So I’ll post a few scenes from Alice’s world today:

Alice: ‘How long is forever?’

White Rabbit: ‘Sometimes, just one second.’

🎨 John Tenniel

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2023-01-28

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
"Who are you?"
~ Lewis Carroll

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2023-01-27

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

― John Steinbeck.



🎨 winter scene, Paul Klee

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2023-01-26

"Those are the eyes of the dead, truly,
No loving hand has closed their void" (Goethe)

🎨 Fritz Roeber (1910)

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2023-01-21

ICYMI - a NEW lesson about communication
How to use trees to understand how we communicate
4 great activities to engage your Ss
https://t.co/EHTaPLZZNP


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2023-01-20

Thank you to everyone who is accompanying and for a stroll through imaginary snow! We return tomorrow.

🎨Lowell Birge Harrison

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2023-01-12

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.

~Italo Calvino

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2023-01-11

'He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.'
-Robert Frost

🎨Alexandre Calame

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2023-01-10

📚📖Our Teatime Bookchat group are having their first monthly meeting of 2023 in Greenock Central Library on Monday 9th January at 5.30pm. Why not start the New Year with like minded people who love books. 📚📖

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2023-01-05

"Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth."
(John Ruskin)

🎨 Charles Livingston Bull

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2023-01-02


“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

~ “A Dream Within A Dream” ~
by Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49]

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2022-12-30