#westcountry

[ipadnotesdotcom]

frog&scorpion fable. ipad notes app. uncropped below cut.

[splitcane]

A cane rod on a Westcountry river.

[djohnhopper]

The nakedness of winter. For more photography featuring the natural landscape of Cornwall, just follow the link: https://johnhopperphotography.blogspot.com/

[ultralowoxygen]

Lifeguards by peterphotographic Via Flickr: Olympus OM2n / Zuiko 28mm f3.5 / Fujicolor Superia X-tra 400 This OM2n evidently has an intermittent light leak - I quite like the subtle effect here Tregonhawke, Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, UK

[tonydaddingham]

headcanon: Crowley invented the famous cheese rolling event where someone chucks a wheel of Gloucester down a hill and everybody flings themselves after it and it results in multiple severe injuries.

COOPER'S HILL MY BELOVED 💕 (my father is from gloucestershire and the attending of/participating in the cooper's hill cheese roll is frankly a rite of westcountry passage. kinda. depends on if you count gloucs as westcountry)

now look, completely agree - and i could see crowley absolutely doing that to be a nuisance, as is his right. but for me? that's aziraphale choosing to celebrate whit monday with a boujee lil picnic. but alas! he accidentally dropped a heavy-ass round of double gloucester cheese (he rather overestimated how much he'd need and instead brought the whole cow) and it rolled off down the hill. now, of course, he'd never do anything so uncouth as to run/tumble after it himself, but some passing locals very gallantly leaped after it to return it to the nice, comely angel wringing his hands over his lost lunch. when the brave, brave warrior who managed to catch it first returned it to him, he instead gifted it as a token of his gratitude, and carried on his merry way. purely accidental that this should henceforth become a tradition/festival.

the fact that it has since resulted in multiple injuries is absolutely not his fault, of course, but crowley found out about it all a century or so later and laughed so much it nearly made him sick.

tar barrels, however? in ottery st mary? now that is one of crowley's:

[aagciii]

A friend just sent this to me. One of the coolest posters I have ever seen... Show the Westcountry Baseball League & the Exeter Spitfires Baseball Club some love & give them a like...

[dotsayers]

watching the sister boniface christmas special with great joy

[mimble-sparklepudding]

I heard that Mimble puts the cream on his scone before the jam!

He certainly does. Doing otherwise is a filthy Nymian habit unbecoming of a Gentleman.

(Scone politics is a serious business, at least on the better side of the Tamar)

[j-august]

As Reginald Scot sagely observed, the place left empty by the saints of the medieval Church was filled by the wise women of the Tudor countryside. Devout Catholics could pray to St Vincent or St Anthony of Padua for the recovery of goods which had been lost or stolen; the Protestants had only the cunning man. At the end of the sixteenth century 'the more ignorant sort' were regretfully observed by Perkins to be better acquainted with charms and spells than with the word of God.

Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic

[tonydaddingham]

*deep inhale* i will defend brother francis until my last breath, he just wants to make friends with the lil bugs and teach you about love and respect, hes the best blue peter presenter they never had

i will not support brother francis slander on my page. he's a special little guy

[lesbiansforboromir]

Tom Bombadil was just as superfluous and unnecessary as I expected but I have to say the accent was just a little worse than I predicted and physically hurt me a lot more than I anticipated, he really couldnt hit those 'a's right.

And more seriously, his whole conciet for being there was JUST as aggravatingly-put as I expected. 'This all used to be green, now it is just a desert' Tom says as he gestures at a perfectly flourishing desert ecosystem with hundreds of plant species in every single shot, as if that's some tragedy.

The racist elements of the Stranger's plotline are not only getting worse but are bleeding into other aspects of the show. The only non-english accents we hear are from evil moth cultists worshipping a dark wizard and skull-mask wearing lepers(?) who just hit people for no good reason. The Stoors have lived in Rhun for centuries apparently, why do they have westcountry accents? It's absolutely bizarre!

And now we've seen the barrow wights, who apparently were laid to rest by some long gone civilisation, and they are in... Keffiyahs? RoP I would be delighted for you to place an arabic-inspired culture in the middle of Eriador, but that is not what you have done you have just orientalised these evil ghosts.

In general there is just no effort whatsoever to actually explain human society in middle earth currently, the only people we've seen are all just brown tinted hollywood peasent-core. In comparison to the costuming for elves and Numenoreans it's kind of dire, and Pelargir is apparently just a tiny collection of huts in the middle of ruined Numenorean architecture. Like... ow, firstly, that's the city from my blorbos, but more to the point if all human 'cities' are currently so 'primitive' then where the HELL was that ship Sauron took with the refugees drydocked?? That was like a pirate-golden-age schooner or something, how the hell was it maintained? Who sails it? Who built it, it's not a numenorean design- WHAT is going on with men in middle earth right now!! I am disappointed and frustrated!

I did like the big worm though. Couldn't get enough of that big mud bobbit worm.

[ipadnotesdotcom]

immigrants. ipads notes app. uncropped + bg without characters under cut.

[djohnhopper]

Welcome to Spring... officially. Though it's unofficially been going on for a while now. Personal photography featuring the natural world of Cornwall: https://johnhopperphotography.blogspot.com/

[ultralowoxygen]

Unemployed Lifeguard by peterphotographic Via Flickr: Olympus OM2n / Zuiko 28mm f3.5 / Fujicolor Superia X-tra 400 Tregonhawke, Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, UK

[tonydaddingham]

[bringing back unhinged asks culture] do you think nanny ashtoreth and brother francis ever touched each other bodies

i wouldn't like to speculate what occurred between that strict but naughty nanny and her rollin' in the hay westcountry stud, but i know it'd make one hell of a porno

[emailhysteria]

good morning westcountry