Dr Tim Meek

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Consumed wriggly tin.

Gravestone with wide triangular top including panel with blue background, which has a gold cross in the middle and three gold crosses either side. A lot of nettles around it. Inscription: In loving memory of George Powys of Grove Farm who died Sept 9th 1925 aged 69 years At eventide there shall be light Also Clara Susanna wife of the above who died Oct 12th 1947 aged 81 years Dearly loved by all

#31DaysOfGraves day 30 - colour. Intrigued by the blue pattern on the top of George Powys’s (c1856-1925) gravestone at Berrington #Shropshire. No other like it there.

Oh this is just great! Myself and @millyallen.bsky.social are working on applied colour on headstones- they are everywhere once you start looking. May we use your image and credit you? Please do let us know if you see more. Ta very much.

An important and overdue piece of research - hopefully just the first - which will inform future development in both sectors. 🙌

I love the timelessness of covering buildings and people unable to resist throwing snowballs. A detail from the Cycle of Months, Eagle Tower, Castelo del Buoconsiglio, Trento. Maestro Venceslao, c1405 –1410. Our thanks to Vrinda Jariwala , Vivienne Whyte , Sarah Mayfield for their LFG talks.

It might have been cut back Michael, because it was on that exposed corner where the masonry touches the rock. 2019.

Twisted tree growing from where the Old Castle Lachlan meets the earth and overlooking Loch Fyne on the Cowl Peninsula.

Multiple layers of limewash.

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We fell out - ran off in the woods this morning.

This is just perfect, tiles bedded in a thick lime plaster and at ground level, where there are likely to be salts, a thick coarse plaster which has been lined out. Guimaraes, Portugal.

It’s just fabulous Claire.

More from Guimarães - I mean phwoar! Strange and intimidating delivering an interdisciplinary paper to a wholly scientific audience, but I enjoyed the feedback.

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Went looking for a local beer in Guimarães and got lost but found this on the route back. They make so much sense in this climate.

Top decorative windows. Sad dereliction.

They are fabulous. What I have come to realise is that Portugal is very wet and humid at this time of year and the tiles discharge water really well, they serve a practical purpose as much as aesthetic.

Should have read, If you are going to do god stuff, at least do it with panache.

@limefinishes.bsky.social Saw these lovely wooden buildings on a website about the place in Ukraine where the Ruskies are occupying a nuke plant (Zaporizhzhia)

Arrived in Guimaraes in Portugal to give our paper. The tiles are set in a really thick coat of lime plaster. If your going to god stuff at least do it with panache.

Porto just now.

This could be really important for the housing stock.

And with more intense spells of wind and rain, it is a much neglected area of study. @curatorkate.bsky.social is taking this forward and we all look forward to a greater understanding of the impact of external/internal pressure differences and how complete lime coats moderate them.

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Heading out to Guimarães in Portugal to present our paper on pressure difference and the positive impact of complete lime finishes and have been told I need to smarten myself up and do @curatorkate.bsky.social and I credit. #Heritage #LimeMortar #ClimateChange #LimeFinishes