Just heard that Dave Shepherd has died. He wrote some awesome tunes - here he is with Anna Pack playing my favourite of them, Rose of Raby https://youtu.be/xb460hMHqrE
OccasionalDucks
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Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner.
“Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT.
Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy.
“Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
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Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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What is more beautiful, more deserving of poetry, than the thousand galaxies of a starling’s plumage?
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Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Excellent episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage on birds -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09ly26f?
#Birding #Birds #InfiniteMonkeyCage #Radio #Radio4 #BBCR4 #NaturalHistory
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Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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£100+ walking shoes I bought reduced to £80 a year ago for morris dancing in: falling apart and can’t be fixed.
£80 full price ankle boots bought a decade ago for morris dancing in with traditionally constructed soles: just back from the cobblers with new heels and fresh rubbers, good to go for another decade.
Next month I’m taking in my 20 year old fake-Corcoran paraboots for the same treatment.
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Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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“Our sergeant major jumped from 30,000 feet
‘Cause he didn’t wear his his head phones”
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@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Feb 24, 2026
RE: @newz@mas.to
I think this article hugely underplays the extent to which the decline of sales of sane sized “mass market” or “a format” book sales is due to the publishers only offering “trade” sized paperbacks - we can’t buy what they don’t print in the first place!
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Feb 24, 2026
This recording from Blowzabella’s early days of the well known “Bear Dance” is listed as “Bear Dance No. 3” - so is it the/a third recording of it, or are there two other Bear Dances that didn’t become popular? Anyone know?
https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/track/bear-dance-no-3
Anyone got any cool folk music to share this #TuneswapTuesday?
#Bagpipes #Europipes #Cornemuse #Melodeon #Accordion #DiatonicAccordion #AccordeonDiatonique #Diato #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Feb 23, 2026
The gen is that there should be a green sandpiper somewhere in this photo, but I’m buggered if I can find it with bins or with clever zoomy bridge camera…
#GreenSandpiper #TringaOchropus #Birding #ForestOfMarstonVale
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@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Feb 22, 2026
Good night at the Insomaniacs Ball - we didn’t stick it out to the bitter end as I’d hoped we would, but left some time around 1am, as not only were our dancers tiring (and busking nearly everything as there’s very little Cotswold we actually know!) but the numbers were thinning (probably 2/3 of the proper Cotswold dancers left before us) as a hard core settled into grind out the more obscure dances until dawn, and most of the musicians had left too so we were being asked to play things we didn’t know and then having to scratch around for someone who did. At that point discretion seemed the better part of valour.
Definitely a fun experience, and good for my “playing along quietly with things I don’t really know” skills.
While we only stayed a couple of hours later than most ales, it felt a bit different and if your a morris dancer wishing striking distance of Long Clawson and haven’t been you should certainly consider giving it a go.
Mild disappointment that the excellent cheese board didn’t include Long Clawson cheese though. :-P
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@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Feb 21, 2026
About half an hour until we leave for the Insomaniacs Ball - because what better than an all-night session of Cotswold morris when you, um, barely dance/play any Cotswold? Fingers crossed it is going to be #Epic!
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@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Feb 21, 2026
Four-way temporary traffic lights on main road into town not working, with traffic already in conflict just after 7 before it starts to build. Called the highways out of hour number. Now, guess who they think is responsible for hunting down the contractor to rectify it and why?
#Transport #TransportPlanning #LocalCouncil #LocalGovernment
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@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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OccasionalDucks
@OccasionalDucks@c.im
Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner. “Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT. Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy. “Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
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Feb 01, 2026
Today, 11 Pluvîose, is the day of ellébore, and once I noticed that it was inevitable that I’d share this awesome Naragonia tune - Hellebore https://youtu.be/_EezqKvAdJE (played here with Gregory Jolivet)
#Naragonia #Accordion #AccordéonDiatonique #Diato #Melodeon #HurdyGurdy #Gurdy #VilleARoue #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
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