Ian Collings

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running | reading | ‘rithmetic Autistic & ADHD (Inattentive) There will be occasional ITFC material. 🚜 Dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Curator of #Bardspotting 🐦‍⬛

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Hamlet. Text reads “Ay, springes to catch woodcocks — I do know When the blood burns how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows.”
A sunflower lanyard for a blue work ID card on a wooden desk with a beautiful spectrum ally badge
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Coriolanus. Text reads “Thus we debase The nature of our seats, and make the rabble Call our cares fears, which will in time Break ope the locks o’th’ Senate and bring in The crows to peck the eagles.”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Winter’s Tale. Text reads “Come on, poor babe, Some powerful spirit instructs the kites and ravens To be thy nurses.”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Text reads “ and some keep back The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Tempest. Text reads “Show thee a jay’s nest, and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset. I’ll bring thee To clust’ring filberts, and sometimes I’ll get thee Young scamels* from the rock.”
3 - 7 August For those of you who perhaps haven’t yet read Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons); this is a gentle reminder that today sees the start of: Season 36 “HEAT STIFLES, EVENINGS STAY LIGHT” #Booksky
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Two Gentlemen Of Verona. Text reads “Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale’s complaining notes Tune my distresses and record my woes.”
“Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every Coistrel that comes enquiring for his Tib.”
Paperback edition of All The Little Bird Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing. Text reads : and a capon, the which if I do not carve most curiously, say my knife’s naught. Shall I not find a woodcock, too?
A humorous sketch of coffee cups, adapted with each author’s work in mind. For instance, Shakespeare has Yorick’s skull in it.
The Ghost Mountain paperback by Rónán Hession
A screenshot of Louie Stowell followed you back!
Bobby Robson in the dugout as Ipswich Town manager
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus. Text reads : That blabbed them with such pleasing eloquence, Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear.
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Edward III. Text reads “The amazed French Are quite distract with gazing on the crows, And were our quivers full of shafts again Your grace should see a glorious day of this.”
29 July - 2 August For those of you who perhaps haven’t yet read Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons); this is a gentle reminder that today sees the start of: Season 35 “SWIFTS FLY HOME” #Booksky
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. Text reads “If thou canst nod, speak too. — If charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury, back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.”
The screenshot of There Is No Anti Memetics Division by qntm from Libro.fm
The trenches. The cast of Blackadder Goes Forth. The single most saddest scene in a sitcom *ever*
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play All’s Well That Ends Well. Text reads “So we seem to know is to know straight our purpose — choughs’ language: gabble enough and good enough.”
Cover of the 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Henry V. Text reads “You may as well go about to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock’s feather. You’ll never trust his word after! Come, ‘tis a foolish saying.”
Highlighted text from the alleged William Shakespeare play Double Falsehood. Text reads “ let me be deem’d A tame, pale coward, whom the night owl’s hoot May turn to aspen leaf;”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play As You Like It. Text reads “As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires;”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Comedy Of Errors. Text reads “Ah, but I think him better than I say, And yet would herein others’ eyes were worse. Far from her nest the lapwing cries away; My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.”
A screenshot from the NYT games app. Today’s Spelling Bee. I have typed in the word OFFENCE. The game has issued an error message saying the word is not in its dictionary.
A paperback edition of Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
23 - 28 July For those of you who perhaps haven’t yet read Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons); this is a gentle reminder that today sees the start of: Season 34 “BUTTERFLIES BASK IN HEAT” #Booksky
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Tempest. Text reads “This was well done, my bird. Thy shape invisible retain thou still. The trumpery in my house: go bring it hither, For stale to catch these thieves.”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Henry VI Part Two. Text reads “Drones suck not eagles’ blood, but rob beehives. It is impossible that I should die By such a lowly vassal as thyself.”
A beautiful piece of art from Marswasrubbish
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
A finch
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Henry V. Text reads “By my troth, he’ll yield the crow a pudding one of these days. The King has killed his heart. Good husband, come home presently.”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare poem Venus and Adonis. Text reads “Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yikes her silver doves, by whose swift aid Their mistress, mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is conveyed”
Paperback edition of Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Richard III. Text reads “I cannot tell; the world is grown so bad That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Since every Jack became a gentleman, There’s many a gentle person made a jack.”
My to be read pile with a modest 5 books on it
Paperback editions of This Way Up by Mark Cooper-Jones & Jay Foreman and A History Of The Workd In 47 Borders by Jonn Elledge
Captain Darling from Blackadder Goes Forth
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Lear. Text reads Alack, ‘tis he. Why, he was met even now As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud, Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers*
17 - 22 July For those of you who perhaps haven’t yet read Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons); this is a gentle reminder that today sees the start of: Season 33 “ACORNS FALL TO THE GROUND” #Booksky
Paperback copy of Mark Watson’s One Minute Away.
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Henry V. Text reads “If that same demon that hath gulled thee thus Should with his lion-gait walk the whole world”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Hamlet. Text reads “I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare poem Venus And Adonis. Text reads “As falcons to the lure, away she flies: The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light, And in her haste unfortunately spies The foul boar’s conquest on her fair delight;”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare poem The Phoenix And Turtle. Text reads “Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance and no space was seen, ‘Twixt this Turtle and his Queen, But in them it were a wonder.”
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare poem The Rape Of Lucrece. Text reads “The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire, And unperceived fly with the filth away; But if the like the snow-white swan desire; The stain upon his silver down will stay.”
12 - 16 July For those of you who perhaps haven’t yet read Lev Parikian’s beautiful book Light Rains Sometimes Fall (A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons); this is a gentle reminder that today sees the start of: Season 32 “FLYING ANTS FILL THE SKY” #Booksky
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Merchant Of Venice. Text reads “How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots: go in sirrah, bid them prepare for dinner!”
A paperback edition of The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
Highlighted text from the play King Edward III. Text reads “That with the nightingale I shall be scarred As oft as I dispose myself to rest Until my colours be displayed in France.
The screencard for which any child growing up in the '70s in the UK will instantly recognise. Why is that girl in the red dress playing Noughts and Crosses with a clown stuffed toy? And why didn't she use her advantage as the only sentient being in the game to take the middle square to begin the game?
Emersonn, an Ipswich player in a home shirt.
A view from behind Memphis Depay, the Netherlands footballer, as he executed a ‘Panenka’ against France
Paperback edition of Mick Herron’s book Clown Town
Emersonn the Brazilian striker that Opswich have signed from Toulouse, sat in the dressing room with the new home kit on.
Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Love’s Labour’s Lost. Text reads “O, marry me to one Frances! I smell some l’envoy, some goose in this.”