Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜

It is very much treasure hunting rather than archaeological survey...

So how do you think it can be fixed?

'War Scene at Queensway Tube Station, 1941' by Joseph Batò

(Private collection)

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.

I can't get over the fact Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are 61 and 60 years old!! I just have to face up to the fact I also am getting old. (It does certainly feel like it.)

Alex Winter on fame, AI and reuniting with Keanu Reeves: ‘Sometimes we’re on a groove and go, ‘God damn, that was good!’ Midway through the Broadway run of Waiting for Godot with his Bill & Ted co-star Keanu, the actor-director talks about his new film, Adulthood, overcoming the abuse he endured as a young performer, and why we’re wrong about artificial intelligence

Alex Winter on fame, AI and reuniting with Keanu Reeves: ‘Sometimes we’re on a groove and go, ‘God damn, that was good!’

Estate Agent language :-)

Like a lounge then?

I can't say I've heard it used a lot... is it a waiting room?

If Guy Fawkes had succeeded at the House of Lords, the nearby House of Commons and Westminster Hall would all have been destroyed, many other buildings would have been severely damaged and a lot of innocent civilians would have died.
The explosion could have looked like this;

Can't you just get AI to do it? :-p

I was checking records and one of the references was this website: www.wymondhamleics.free-online.co.uk/sitemap.htm I love stumbling across web pages that look like the olden days! So many aren't still online...

A black and white photo of lots of people running. Amongst the crowd is a person dressed as a gorilla, a person dressed as a clown (not a weird one, more like the Ashes to Ashes Bowie sort of clown) and a scary, evil looking clown in a tattered prison uniform.

This week's #MKMonday photo is in our catalogue as 'May Day fun run in Linford Wood, 1980', but that fails to capture just how much it looks like a still from a slasher film.

A photo of a Snickers bar cut open. Inside of it is a close up of the map of Boarstall.

Parents, make sure you're careful this Halloween! Inside this Snickers we've just found the 1444 map of Boarstall, one of the oldest maps of an English village and a fantastic example of late medieval cartography.

Congratulations!

The car washed its hands?

Pits, enclosures, and barns – excavations along the Soar Valley, north of Quorn. - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources In 2021, ULAS excavated 96 trenches on land north of Quorn in Leicestershire ahead of proposed development of the site which sits on the floor of the Soar valley, immediately west of the river’s curre...

In 2021, ULAS excavated 96 trenches on land north of Quorn in Leicestershire ahead of proposed development of the site which sits on the floor of the Soar valley, Site Director Adam Clapton describes the excavations and offers some initial interpretations of the site!

www.bajr.org/pits-enclosu...

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My dad introduced my to the Wilburys albums last time I saw him - it is odd but very catchy. :-D

Updating my LEGO White House

IT'S OUT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎊🎉🎈
(sound on, please)

'Piccadilly Circus' (from 'Looking Round London', c.1938) by Helen Carstairs

Pencil sketch of a rat reclining on a chair next to a table with an umbrella, on his patio.

Not the only one!

Abstract colourful geometric rat drawing done with felt pens.

Day 20: "Abstract Rat". #rattober2025

What about taking away car lanes to provide more cycling space - always seems unpopular but think about how many more bikes you can fit in that space than cars!

Garden update - leave leaves

Rats eat up to 11% of their poos... lovely.

Pencil sketch of a rat reclining on a chair next to a table with an umbrella, on his patio.

Day 6: "Ratio". #rattober2025

Cartoon sketch of a rat being the Olympic pistol shooter Yusuf Dikec

Day 2: "Accu-rat" #rattober2025

A long cylindrical wooden pole, with a hollow end, lying on the floor next to the Mary Rose

A section of the wooden cylinder, with a rectangular hole in it

#OnThisDay, 1989, Technotronic's hit single "Pump Up the Jam" reached No. 2 in the UK charts.

Luckily, the bilge pump on the Mary Rose had an inspection hatch, so you could see what was jamming it and clear it out.

No, hang on, that's "Jam up the pump"...