Peigi MacKillop

It's route to publication was awfully sad 😔

My Kobo pre order downloaded today at 12.23am. Yay!

Team Miles for MND Help Team Miles for MND raise money to support My Name'5 Doddie Foundation

My cousin Charlotte and her friends are cycling hundreds of miles across Scotland, for the Doddie Triple Crown, raising money for research and support for MND patients.

If you could help at all, donating or sharing this link, they - and I - would be so grateful.

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Absolutely! But who to cast? Hot dogs! Collapsing porches!

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🧵 The ability to express yourself as you wish, to create & to have artistic freedom is really important. For me it’s about bold colours, exploring nature & investigating the symbols in our subconscious, as you can see if you scroll down, in this thread [1]

You don't want to see the verso...

I appear to have accidently bought myself a new pair of Docs... Oh dear 😊

Oh my goodness, not my personal style but these are absolutely beautiful 😍

A woman's hand holding a pack of playing cards with an illustration of 3 cans of Tennents lager. Central can illustrated with two tall glasses of lager, two cans either side show brown haired women in low cut white shirts. They are named Marie and Erica.

I have 2 packs of these. If you are passing you are welcome to one.

In the early days of Google earth an (IT) work colleague asked if they ran into their garden and waved, would I see them?

Yeah, it is dreich. Our daffs look like they are at a rave!

Screen grab of a call for papers at Leeds IMC. The text reads: TIME FOR CHANGE: TEMPORALITIES & CASTLES Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026 - 'Temporalities' What is a castle in time? Is there a time of castles, for castles? Can castles be atemporal? What does a castle studies engaging with questions of temporality look like? Whose castle temporalities matter? Can we call time on the castle studies of yesterday, yesteryear? Can the lens of temporality challenge castle knowledges and interpretations? This panel welcomes proposals which examine temporalities and temporalities in castle studies as a field of inquiry at the intersection of (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism. Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome: • Temporality in castle studies; • Remembering and memorializing in castle Obscured history, identities and heritages in spaces, communities, themes: past and castles past and present present; • Medieval temporalities and the heritage • Temporally situated antiquity, novelty and innovation in castles; • Planning, timing, scheduling, recording in • castle communities, lives, societies; • Ruined, lost and fictional castles in time Parallel and contradictory times; • Time and temporality in the reception of castles; Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to Dr William Wyeth (william.wyeth@english-heritage.org.uk) by 15 September 2025. This session is organised by Emma Fearon (Nottingham Trent University) and William Wyeth (English Heritage)

Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.

If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social

Original CfP below ⬇️

Tarnished but clean and still super-sharp

1950s flat potato /cheese grater with four sections, crinkle cut slice, straight cut slice, large grate, micro grate.

I have my parent's wedding gift, 1957.

Hoopoe wears a Medieval net cap with pearls

Small Prophets #SmallProphets

Buyer beware, be very aware.

Why do the top row get light sabres?

I have a beautiful soprano, hand made but this is super cute.

Ohhhh droooooooooool

Outstanding!

That is derisory.

Sour Puss 🤣

Goodnight Hookland.

Marmalade wonder.

George was brilliant. Harry is good.

OMG I saw a documentary about a woman who got a job in an undertaker. It was grim.

Being on a small island, it spoke to me, although our shop is not as comically short of stock!

Hedda Hopper, tart and acidic