On the way to Dartmoor and stopped off to see the Cerne Abbas giant on the way, as well as nearby St Catherine's well. Apparently if you look into the water on Easter Day you'll see the faces of those who will die that year.

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I've always been curious about the story behind the famous Irish Samhain turnip, so I finally looked it up, and it's a plastercast of an original made by schoolteacher Rose Brennan from Finntown, Co. Donegal, for the Irish Folklore Commission. #Halloween www.museum.ie/collections/...

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"It was a fine #Autumn. The blackberries were ripe, the nuts were ready & the mice of Brambly Hedge were very busy. Every morning they went out into the fields to gather seeds, berries & roots which they took back to the Store Stump & stowed away for the winter ahead." Jill Barklem #BookwormSat

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"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches', 1892 #BookwormSat 🎨 by Helen Allingham

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Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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