Su Fullwood

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Discussed Roman autocracy at Kennedy Center last night with @petridishes.bsky.social Eg on how ancient autocrats depended on collaboration as much as violence, on autocratic corruption of language & gave shout out to Roman sarcophagus where one US president refused to be buried. tinyurl.com/4m9vkuwv

Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The beach this morning looking as good as a silvered clock dial again

I love a good turret clock and this one is fab

Image credit: Andrew Jankunas

Image credit: Bath in Time

Image credit: Somerset Archives

NEWS: C20 is leading efforts to save Bath Fire Station from proposed demolition.

The 1930s classical Art Deco building was a rare pre-war project by a female architect, and went on to play a crucial role in protecting the city during the Baedeker Blitz of 1942.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/c20-lea...

It really is!

I had the best day today, surveying the structure and dials on the stables tower while Peter of The Cumbria Clock Company dismantled the motionworks & clock movement for overhaul. The clock was originally installed by London Clockmaker Langley Bradley in 1725.

“Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women remarkable” - so starts this brilliant new research article by Lara Cassidy, Miles Russell et al.
New ancient DNA research suggest that Iron Age communities were matrilocal: women stayed put while men moved away to marry… 1/2

The Trundle southern ramparts dominating the coastal plain of Sussex #HillfortsWednesday

Chimney sweep whose death changed child labour laws honoured with blue plaque George Brewster, youngest to get plaque, died aged 11 in 1875 after getting stuck in flue, leading to law banning ‘climbing boys’

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Sussex needs Beavers! These ecosystem engineers improve water systems and boost wildlife. @GOVUK, it's time to take action for wild releases. 🌿

Read The Wildlife Trusts' vision for a Beaver-friendly future: https://buff.ly/3Wk7CjL

📷 Eurasian Beaver, © The Wildlife Trusts

Sunset while walking across the fields home tonight. It was one great big orange globe of loveliness

Ahhh, well at the risk of putting a dampener on it all ....no!

BUT
That's because I do already have some indicating! I mix and match where appropriate. I so know how to have a good time! 😍

SILICA GEL 🤸💃

I am waiting for one as I read this post 🤗

Our next committee meeting is coming up later this month, when we'll be discussing some old favourites, plus some bright shiny new things for our website and social media channels! Stay tuned!

From Balloons to Spacesuits: women’s technical contributions to the work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Dr Nina Baker OBE Tuesday 25th February 2025, 7.30pm Simon Jarvis Lecture Theatre, Farnborough 6th Form College, Sand Hill, Farnborough GU14 8JS 25 Feb 2025 talk v1.0 Free to FAST Association Members, Guests and Non Members Welcome (donations of £5 per head to FAST are invited) Parking is in front of the Simon Jarvis Lecture Theatre in the 6th Form College Student Car Park (entrance in Sand Hill). Map available on request. Admission to this popular talk will be by ADVANCE BOOKING ONLY To get your Booking Reference Please email distribution@airsciences.org.uk or phone 01252 679898 / 07746 957498 In her talk, engineering historian, Dr Nina Baker, will describe the long and illustrious history of women’s technical work at the RAE and its predecessors from the Weinling family of balloon makers, through the maths stars recruited after the First World War to the work of the Cold War and early Space Age. Whilst there is a general awareness of Beatrice Shilling’s work on the Merlin engines, there might be less awareness of her post-war work on rockets or of the aeronautical engineering work of Hilda Lyon on the R101 and WW2 aircraft longitudinal stability, or Anne Burns’ pioneering work on strain gauges and then clear air turbulence. Still less-known are likely to be the many other women who worked on oxygen systems, early space suits, the effects of G on the human body and many other essential features that make flying safer for all. This talk will be an introduction to a number of these more forgotten women’s significant contributions to the work of the RAE.

To any mutuals who are in the South of England, I am giving a talk "From Balloons to Spacesuits: Women’s Technical Contributions to the Work of the RAE"
25th Feb, for the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust and it would obviously be lovely to meet any of you IRL:
airsciences.org.uk/FAST-Talk_25...

CARS VANS CLASSICS WANTED Cars & Vans

“We sell Nissans, Ford Transits and The Iliad”

Morning Bluesky.

If you’re in the UK, take some time to celebrate the National Trust - 130 years old today.

Clock, moon and bird 😀
Lovely day for work today, a big improvement on the cold sleety snow yesterday

@daveyndiva.bsky.social 👋

A lovely wintery scene this evening on the road by our local church ❄️
#Rotherham #Yorkshire #Snow #Church

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I supported this protest and am completely delighted that the new UK government will not be going ahead with plans to destroy paper wills and records. They’re the lifeblood of historical research.

In the light of all the announcements & shenanigans going on elsewhere, decided this is really the only place to be.
In other news I had to escape to my car when it started to snow today during a sort of "watching brief". I have quite a high tolerance for the cold but 8 hours outside was too long

@rachelwhitechurch.bsky.social soooooo good to find you here rachel

Moon and Venus over Emsworth tonight

We are in middle of Chichester and Pagham Harbours and near the Witterings Beaches on the South Coast. James still misses Norfolk but some of the wetland areas are quite similar here. We both miss Wales of course 😊

A bit more serious on the Substack this time. A small bomb exploded in the heart of Greenwich Park 130 years ago. A young Frenchman named Martial Bourdin died. He was only a few feet from his intended destination: a clock. Why did he hate it so much?

One of my favourite sounds, we here it a lot here too. Song well captured and described. Let it take away the knock backs