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It’s a favorite of mine!

Sometimes I get to draw really fun and different maps, like this one

BOOKSHOP MAGIC; where you'll find the book you need. It’s always raining outside but cozy inside, your favourite armchair will be free, and the bookshop dog will curl up with you to read. Best of all; on your birthday you can read your favourite book for the first time again. #questpit #Q #P #RF #S

A horse is a horse, of course, of course...

Eel metaphors have been with us as long as we've been eating eels -- so a long time. The ancient Greeks certainly had their share. In his play "The Knights" Aristophanes (d.386 BCE) compares demagogues to eel fishermen who had to muddy the waters before they could make a profit. 🗃️🧪

Eel metaphors have been with us as long as we've been eating eels -- so a long time. The ancient Greeks certainly had their share. In his play "The Knights" Aristophanes (d.386 BCE) compares demagogues to eel fishermen who had to muddy the waters before they could make a profit. 🗃️🧪

Buying redemption w/ eels wasn't just a medieval English thing. Oh, no! In 1500 the Duke of Ferarra wanted nuns in Florence to pray for him. But that kinda thing ain't free, & to get his prayers the duke had to make regular payments of eels to the sisters. Soul food, y'all.

Buying redemption w/ eels wasn't just a medieval English thing. Oh, no! In 1500 the Duke of Ferarra wanted nuns in Florence to pray for him. But that kinda thing ain't free, & to get his prayers the duke had to make regular payments of eels to the sisters. Soul food, y'all.

Maybe the fanciest medieval eel recipe was the French "reversed eel." How do you make it? Well... First, you skin & debone the eel. Then, sew it back together inside out, stuffed with bread crumbs, meats & spices. Then, cook it in red wine. Kind of a super-fancy eel hot pocket! 🗃️🧪

Maybe the fanciest medieval eel recipe was the French "reversed eel." How do you make it? Well... First, you skin & debone the eel. Then, sew it back together inside out, stuffed with bread crumbs, meats & spices. Then, cook it in red wine. Kind of a super-fancy eel hot pocket! 🗃️🧪

Cool!

In 1397 the city of London arrested several Dutch eel merchants for unpaid debts. But that meant fewer eels! And that won't do. So the king intervened. He ordered that the Dutch be set free to sell their eels, and also that the city never again hassle eel merchants in this way. 🗃️🧪

In uncertain times, you need spiritual insurance. Eel insurance. Emma de Beaufoe (d. 1256) knew. In her will, she left 400 eels each year to Blackborough Priory. The eels bought prayers for the souls of Emma, & her friend(?) Isabelle Freville. Salvation is slippery. Bring eels.

He lived up the road from my aunt, and she told me that everyone in the neighborhood found him extremely weird and off-putting

We all change in appearance as we age. Even eels! For most of their lives, living in fresh water, they're yellowish-brown. It helps them blend into the mud. But as they prepare to migrate back to sea to mate & die, they become silver in color. Just like the rest of us. 🗃️🧪

Thank you!

There are so many ways to be surprised by eels!

It is! They're catadromous. When I'm describing the life cycle to people, I often say that eels are like reverse salmon!

We all change in appearance as we age. Even eels! For most of their lives, living in fresh water, they're yellowish-brown. It helps them blend into the mud. But as they prepare to migrate back to sea to mate & die, they become silver in color. Just like the rest of us. 🗃️🧪

Yup. But by this point there’s not a lot of beaches in London. Lots of docks, tho