Catelyn had never like this godswood... The gods of Winterfell kept a different sort of wood. It was a dark, primal place, three acres of old forest untouched for ten thousand years as the gloomy castle rose around it... The gods who lived here had no names.

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For a very hot morning, the Queen of the Night fan, painted by Gustave-François Lasellaz (1848-1910) and scattered with rose diamonds.

The tortoiseshell sticks are particularly lovely, delicately carved and pieced to evoke rays of moonlight.

From the Fan Museum.

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Thanks to for his review of by in Groat News ‘A simple, startlingly profound picture book...A delicately composed work, calmingly powerful.’

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quick comm for ZapCatElement on FA

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Catelyn found her husband beneath the weirwood seated on a stone. The greatsword Ice was across his lap & he was cleaning the blade in those waters black as night. Humus lay thick swallowing the sound of her feet, but the red eyes of the weirwood seemed to follow her as she came.

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This Singaporean snack, Ice Gem Biscuit, is a biscuit topped with this intricately-shaped icing. It's sweet and brings me back to my childhood days! Always bite the icing first! It makes a great souvenir for foreigners visiting Singapore!

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The thought of Winterfell brought a wan smile to his face. He wanted to hear Bran’s laughter once more, to go hawking with Robb, to watch Rickon at play. He wanted to drift off to a dreamless sleep in his own bed with his arms wrapped tight around his lady, Catelyn.

-Ned Stark

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Keith Tyson, Life Still
Opens on Tuesday 21 May, 6-8pm, until 7 Sep 2019
'I don’t believe in a permanent self or in developing an artistic style. Our world is full of intricately connected systems & events. I’m simply trying to make work in collaboration with them.'

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Cake is finished! It's a Chinese 5 Spice cake! >:D With delicately Orange flavoured cream cheese icing.

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1920 Paris by Nina Hamnett
Fearless, unconventional, promiscuous, known to dance naked on tables of Montparnasse before haunting pubs of Fitzrovia. Fav anecdote tells of NH throwing up in handbag before clipping it shut, delicately wiping her lips and resuming drinking.

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A pale blue-grey French Couture bias cut Day Dress from the 1930s, decorated with appliqués of abstracted Japanese tsuru (cranes) flying delicately across the skirt. (Image: Leslie Hindman)

Japanese prints: Sugiura Hisui, Shoson Ohara, Kano Norinobu, Utagawa Hiroshige.

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— “i am sansa stark, lord eddard’s daughter and lady catelyn’s, the blood of winterfell.”

— “i am the blood of the dragon, she told herself. i am daenerys stormborn, princess of dragonstone, of the blood and seed of aegon the conqueror.”

art credit: https://t.co/yCHy9DDPD7

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Highly intricately wrought historiated 'F'(uit) at the beginning of from the first book of Kings (1 Samuel).

Harley MS 2798; c1172; Bible ('The Arnstein Bible') (Genesis to Malachi); Germany, NW (Arnstein); f.102v

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