Whats a distaff?

Whats a distaff?

Wool and mohair yarn (© Jurate Buiviene/Alamy)

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7 Jan 2024Great Staple Tor, Dartmoor National Park
7 Jan 2025Moeraki Boulders, South Island, New Zealand
7 Jan 2026Old Rock Day

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4 Sep 2024Dusky eagle-owls, Pakistan
7 Feb 2026Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia
27 Jun 2025Splendid leaf frog
29 Mar 2024South Stack Lighthouse, Holyhead, Wales
Holding back the tide
The ‘eighth wonder’?
4 Jul 2024Italica, an old Roman city in Santiponce, Andalusia, Spain
6 Nov 2023Lago Pehoé, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
19 Apr 2024Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland
How sweet to be a star, floating in the blue.
10 Dec 2024Lands End, Cornwall, England
13 Sep 2025Last Night of the Proms
16 May 2025Endangered Species Day
14 Oct 2023Ring of fire solar eclipse
Were halfway there
19 Aug 2025The Three Musketeers Falls at Iguazú Falls, Argentina
Check out these ‘sea cows’
May the 4th be with you
27 Mar 2025World Theatre Day
When life imitates art
8 Jan 2025Great Wall of China
2 Oct 2025National Poetry Day
Singing the blues
5 Dec 2023Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castles, Bavaria, Germany
10 Nov 2024Remembrance Sunday
A stunning chamber for beautiful art
11 Dec 2023International Mountain Day
2 Oct 2023World Architecture Day
19 Sep 2023Splügen Pass, Switzerland
3 Jan 2024J.R.R. Tolkien Day