Royal Mail launches Myths & Legends stamp collection based on UK folklore:
Designed by Adam Simpson they feature include:
• The Loch Ness Monster
• Cornish piskies
• Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion
• Beowulf & Grendel
• Grindylow
• Black Shuck
• Selkie
• Fionn mac Cumhaill
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Michael Oliver just can’t help himself.
Why is he working this game? He has worked for City’s owner the last 12 months, can’t see how that isn’t enough grounds for him to have a conflict of interest. @pgmol?
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"Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps." - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Today is the eve of Candlemas, the festival which traditionally marks the end of the Christmas season. At its heart is a meeting between birth and death, childhood and old age, hope and grief - the darkness of winter and the first, fragile light of spring unherd.com/2021/02/we-nee…
The first snowdrops, there in the village churchyard, starring the muddy ground, moon white, green and brave as thunder under the great Wolfish moon, circling the old gravestones with their hourglasses and skulls; hope we are, they sang, hope in death's shadow, hope in winter's…
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