Dr David Rundle

Good news, @tamarajatkin.bsky.social - a minor technical hitch has been resolved and @memslibukc.bsky.social is back up and available in all its glory. As always, thanks go to the @memsunikent.bsky.social students who make it possible.

Yesterday's impulse buy, thanks to the excellence of @waterstones.bsky.social in Canterbury. And thanks go to @lswisnom.bsky.social for writing a book which manages to be both engaging and thought-provoking. Makes me wish I'd become an Assyriologist.

Odette to pleasure.

Where we spent my birthday.

Tale not over:
4 Arrive LHR 5:50pm. As planes not flying, no available stand. So, remote stand - stairs and buses arrive in moments but not ground staff. It takes 40 minutes to get off plane.
Lesson: it's not just what happens in the air that affects journeys; it's also the effects on the ground.

Our flight disruption story from yesterday. A simple hop from Dublin to Heathrow, except:
1 Coach to airport 30+ minutes late so rush to gate
2 Safely on plane and about to taxi when radar issue announced and take-off pushed back from 3:30pm to 7pm
3 Good news! Take-off actually 4:50pm
But...

St Radegund's Abbey, near Kearnsey (inland from Dover). Bits of it went to help build Deal Castle, in a case of turning ploughshares into swords.

Thanks for the heads-up, @tamarajatkin.bsky.social - will investigate! It would be sad to lose such a great resource.

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Godmersham, church of St Lawrence the Martyr.

Aiming to give the Truss premiership a run for its money in the longevity stakes.

The intellectual world is much bigger than academe and much stronger for having good scholars beyond academe. Thank you for continuing to be one such scholar and, I hope, future collaborator.

St Mary's, Chartham.

For that you need Kenneth Dover.

Roll up, roll up - the fantastic @etreharne.bsky.social's lecture is tonight and I, for one, am eagerly anticipating this highpoint of the palaeographical year.

Can we come even if we know the answer?

It's brave.

Don't forget this, as the interlinear text implies:

Is the naming after The Alchemist an allusion to the play's second line?

Sounds as if someone in that government does not understand the concept of peregrinatio studii.

Admittedly, it is popular: too many citizens would prefer to be subjects. But the disappearance of citizenship from public discourse is notable and corrosive.

Can we pinpoint when government (of any hue) decided that having people with enough learning to be engaged citizens was surplus to requirements?

Many congratulations to both of you: delightful news!

Really enjoyed this stimulating piece on the interaction of urban spaces and human presence: congratulations, @davehitchcock.bsky.social

Yes, this really is quite accomplished.

As God Will: carved in 1511, this is the earliest instance of humanist Roman capitals being used for the English language in stone - on the funerary slab to a French Knight of St John, inscribed on the island of Rhodes.

Who was the Suffolk Red Barn murderer Willam Corder? The story of a notorious killer whose skin covers two books held at a Suffolk museum.

Lest we think that this is unique, let's remember that there are parallels for human skin as bindings in New York and in Paris - all of them nineteenth-century, not medieval. What with the fashion at that point?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I hope for a world where the en-dash and the Oxford comma can live in harmony, friendship, and tranquillity.