Diane

Yes please I'd love one for my granddaughter.

Whales in the sky! 🐋✨ From the beach to the clouds at the 38th International Kite Festival in Berck-sur-Mer, France. Absolutely surreal!

#NationalTrust
#Blossomwatch

Dolphin prototype #paperautomata

#SixonSaturday #gardens #spring

#Gwen & Vera's fields nature reserve.
#Gloucestershire Wildlife trust.
#Oxenhall.

Tewksbury abby, peace doves.

Sometimes called the ‘pilgrims door’ this narrow doorway in Gloucester Cathedral may be from the 14th century.

#Adoorablethursday

Patience is a virtue.
#WorldBollardAssociation

My photo shows a lady’s dark-brown leather sandal with toe thong for a left foot, designed for indoor use. Dimensions W 66 mm × H 228 mm. The outer edge of the insole has been cut with decorative lobes to shape around the wearer’s toes. The insole has been stamped with vine-leaves, cornucopiae, and the maker’s name inside an ansate frame which reads ‘L AEB THALES T F’. Translated as ‘Lucius Aeb(utius) Thales, son of Titus (made this)’. This would have been an expensive shoe. It was excavated in 1972 from the period III (c. AD 90 - 105) residence of Flavius Cerialis, Vindolanda’s commanding officer who lived at the fort with his family. It’s possible the sandal belonged to his wife Sulpicia Lepidina, for which reason it is sometimes referred to as ‘Lepidina’s slipper’. It is displayed on a red background at the Vindolanda onsite museum in Northumberland.

French fashion on the Roman frontier some 2,000 years ago!

A stylish and expensive lady’s leather toe-thong sandal made in Gaul (modern France), found at Vindolanda fort in northern England. It is stamped with the maker’s name ‘Lucius Aebutius Thales’.

📷 by me

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology

Done. Share to everyone

#NationalSnowdropDay
Stratford park, Stroud, Gloucestershire.

I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac!

www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara...

#selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

I’ve decided I’m going to take over Lancashire, own it, level it, get all its inhabitants to relocate to Wales, Cumbria or wherever (not Yorkshire!), re-name it God’s Own Country, plant millions of acres of rhubarb and build a Betty’s Tea Room on every street corner.
That’ll sort the buggers!! 👍 👀

It's Traitors Finals Day! And to celebrate, here's me and arch-traitor Paul chatting about the most galactically important part of the show...

🎶
when you go, will you send back
a lettuce from America?
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Happy birthday to us! 130 today and still going strong 💪

A big thank you to everyone who is celebrating with us ♥️

#Caturday

There are too many reasons to feel sad this New Year.
Some days the rain just won’t stop falling.
But flood waters recede.
And good people are everywhere, when you look.
Be kind x

Small mammoth figurine sculpted from mammoth ivory around 40,000 years ago. The ivory is brownish/grey in colour, with a shiny patina. The lower part of the animal’s trunk and rear legs are not present. The mammoth is decorated with rows of engraved crosses on the shoulders, loin, and abdomen. Dimensions: H 3.1 cm × W 5 cm × D 2.2 cm.

As the New Year approaches I wish you all a Happy New Year! 🎉

I’m signing off 2024 with a marvellous miniature mammoth sculpted from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago! 🦣 ❤️

It’s one of the world’s oldest works of figuritive art. From the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany 📷 me

#Archaeology

Looking back over 2024, it's been quite the year including a change of lodger, but my highlight was when @molly1989vinyl.bsky.social and her friends finally got to see me:

Happy Christmas to you Larry, from Mortimer 😻

Dashing through the snow.. 😅

Photo of a museum display showing three candles of brown colour, the wicks have also survived.

The oldest preserved #candles north of the Alps. They were made from beeswax around 1,400 years ago. Found in the early #medieval burial site in Oberflacht. The damp environment preserved the candles in good condition.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

📷me
🏺 #archaeology

I'll give away a set of all three of the brilliant Indiana Bones books to one person at random who retweets this and follows @trouteyes.bsky.social.

Winner will be chosen on Sunday 17th November at about 6pm.

Good luck!

www.biggreenbookshop.com/index.php?se...

Air Horse. Bellows powered paper project to download and make. #bellows #horse #paperengineering #automata #maker www.robives.com/project/air-horse

Beautiful Batsford arboretum.

44 annular blue glass beads. Found when a farmer ploughed up a cremation urn at Kongehøj in Denmark in 1885. The urn broke and was found to contain burnt bones, the 44 blue glass beads and two gold spiral rings. Research shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), indicating far-reaching trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago

Something lovely for the weekend!

Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.

Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.

📷 National Museum of Denmark

#Archaeology