floradora 🇬🇧

Proud to be English ... normally I enjoy scrabbling about looking at small flowers and stuff in wild places.

[Michelle Cowbourne @Glastomichelle]

A colourful end to the day here in Glastonbury. It was worth the walk I think. Now it is time for a glass of wine 🍷

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@John_Dabell 💐

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@FUDdaily @ShabanaMahmood 💯

[The Medieval Scholar @MedievalScholar]

Today, September 25th, is the anniversary of the battle of Stamford Bridge!

In mid-1066, Harold stationed his army on the southern coast to repel William's invasion but had to dismiss the militia for the harvest.

When Harald Hardrada invaded the north, Harold rushed to meet him and won the Battle of Stamford Bridge on September 25th, killing both Hardrada and Tostig Godwinson.

Despite the victory, Harold's army was weakened and far from the south, where William's invasion loomed.

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@bettedavisthizz Yes... Sheesh...

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@LumpyandFriends I have similar... I recognise your pattern because it's so similar. I have no agenda... I'm working through it like you.
Talk to me if it helps... I know it doesn't.. it's a connection though... We who are left drowning and coping need connection. All love xxx

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@bornfirstkindly @TemuDuchess I'm old enough to be old school. I don't pretend to be anything.
I've done nothing disrespectful nor pretended any inside knowledge. I'm a normal royalist by birth and I've watched longer than most who jump on the latest royal bandwagon.

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@MedievalScholar 4th plinth please

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@SBarrettBar Steven is correct. A gentleman does not offer his hand unless some agreed or further intimacy is implied. An arm is what is required.
But then ... He is an American........

[helen warlow @helen_warlow]

Hello again
Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1941)
Irish painter
Watercolours and Oils Landscape artist also associated with the Newlyn School of artists
Beautifully melancholic
@helen_warlow

[Kentish Ways @Cantwara_]

Good to see Queen Eadgifu, third wife of King Edward the Elder of Wessex and daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent.

But Kent also remembers Queen Bertha, Seaxburh, Princess of East Anglia and Queen of Kent and Eanflæd Princess of Kent and Queen of Northumbria.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🦴 A skeleton in a cave. Nine thousand years old.

They tested his DNA. 🧬

And matched it to a man living half a mile away. 🇬🇧

In 1903, workers were digging a drainage channel inside a gorge in Somerset. They hit bone. A body. Curled up. Deep inside the rock.

He'd been there since before Stonehenge. Before the pyramids.

They called him Cheddar Man. 🧀

He hunted deer through forests that covered this island. He fished rivers that still run through the same valley today. And then he died. Alone. In a cave.

For a century, he sat behind glass. A museum piece. A curiosity. A name on a plaque.

Then in 1997, a scientist from Oxford had an idea. He took DNA from one of Cheddar Man's teeth. Then he went into the village. Walked into the local school. Swabbed the

cheeks of twenty residents.

And ran the tests.

🧬 One matched.

Adrian Targett. History teacher. Living half a mile from the cave.

Three hundred generations. Same family. Same valley. Nine thousand years. And the line never left.

He didn't know.

The longest unbroken connection between a living person and an ancient ancestor. Anywhere in the world.

Same hills. Same river. Same village. Half a mile from the cave.

You are the reason we can tell these stories. https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

[Katherine Moore @M74596Katherine]

@ProudofusUK @cholatera But there is no indigenous in britain they said

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

At this time of year, one old English harvest custom was “Crying the Mare.” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

When the last corn of the harvest was left standing, reapers would throw their sickles at it until one of them cut it down. The final patch was called the Mare.

In Shropshire, the men would then loudly proclaim that they had “her” and jokingly announce that the Mare was being sent to a neighbouring farmer who had not yet finished his harvest — a bit of old-fashioned rural boasting at his expense.

And “corn” here means grain such as wheat, not American maize.

An old English harvest tradition once heard across the Shropshire countryside 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

England's countryside is sacred 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

These fields, hills and ancient trees are more than scenery. They are the landscape that shaped our people for centuries. Our ancestors walked these paths, worked this land and worshipped in the churches that still stand today.

Perhaps that is why it feels like home even to our American/ Australian/Canadian brothers and sisters of British stock. It carries an ancestral memory that reminds us who we are and where we came from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Rev. Peter White, MA @PeterWhiteThD]

The LAST Anglo-Saxon King of England fought the Vikings 3 weeks before the battle of Hastings

The inscription on the marble tablet reads:

THE BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE
KING HAROLD OF ENGLAND DEFEATED
HIS BROTHER TOSTIG AND KING HARDRAADA OF NORWAY HERE ON
25 SEPTEMBER 1066

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@MeghansMole Tired old schtick.

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Stonehenge Autumn Equinox Celebrations.

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@bornfirstkindly @TemuDuchess Why so aggressive? it's not necessary. My cancer was found during abdominal surgery. Do I need to draw a diagram? No need to say anything except having been there, I know adjuvant is horrible but important. It's real. That was my point. What is your problem for heavens sake .

[floradora 🇬🇧 @hedgewatching]

@XOQueenEsther A tone deaf, ill-matched and inappropriate angle on parenting sick children. He insists on inserting woke, meaningless 'community' angle garbage.