An epic thread,but one worthy of space and time, of grief and thought, of love and landscape. Walking as exploration of place and self of belonging and exclusion.

An utter joy

Glorious Clay Chorley
#Exhibition by the Northern Potters Association, at the Coach House Astley Hall #Chorley
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#pottery #clay #ceramics #potter #glaze #ceramic #earth #leica #leicaq3

#snap_vip_member #snap_world #snap_minimal #snap_art #snap_leica

Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

What a mild way to say "this is against the law and has been anathema since the founding of this country."

Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed: 1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks 2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens 3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens 4: India: Cottons Cowries 5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns 6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance 7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products 8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain 9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco 10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo 11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses 12: Brazil: Coffee 13: Brazil: Gold 14: Mexico / Peru: Silver 15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America. A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled: Yellow: Books with gold covers Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell) Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book) The Office (where hazel makes tea) Bathroom Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out) The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece) Taboo The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase) Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens) A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs.

Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean.

Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge". The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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A gold ring with a flat pyramidical top in which is inlaid a violet sapphire.

Another gem - literally speaking this time - from today's trip to Sorø. The ring found in the grave of Archbishop Absalon of Lund (r.1177-92). The stone is a Sri Lanka sapphire, testifying to the wide reach of Afro-Eurasian trade networks in the Middle Ages.

Goodnight from Tim Nye, only remembering the cursed fate of those who drunkenly climb Weychester University statues during Fresher’s Week after it’s too late. Goodnight from Elma Cade, stitching the little sorrows of the day into a rag for banishment by burning. Goodnight from Hookland.

Night, night, sleep tight.

Wake up world! #climatebreakdown #oilandgas #biosphere #Arctic #Overshoot

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

- Orwell, 1984

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Knowing that a puffin colony is in the U.S. (Maine) impels me to go to Maine, because, you know, puffins, but also to see their burrows. Adding it now to my list of must-visit places... 🧪🐦🕳️

I guess this simply confirms that my Rebellion! project, exploring and celebrating the importance of peaceful protest as part of our cultural identity, in the face of draconian anti-protest legislation, has never been more timely.

37423 with 20048 acting as brake translator approaches Rifle Range with the 0940 Kidderminster Town to Bridgnorth service during the third day of the Severn Valley Railway '65 Years of Class 37' Autumn Diesel Bash. (04/10/25)

A massive oak tree

Another photo of the Arbour Oak in Wollaton Park, Nottingham

Courtesy of my son Elliott, who was enjoying University Freshers Week by getting to know the local oak legends, & not just the pubs

This is a thread of pure joy

A black and white drawing of two rotund men - one bald with a beard, the other with a beard and lots of hair, on a bench, laughing and sharing a pot of chocolate buttons.

Two bearded men at a bus-stop do infectiously lovely, sugar-fuelled belly-laughing as they share a huge bag of giant chocolate buttons.

Art by Danny Noble. Words by me.

Yes. And it won't win over a single voter whose main concern is immigration. Pointlessly self-destructive.

To-night I am going to clean my briefcase again, and then perhaps go to the discotheque and have an early night I hope.

Remains of a factory at Broadheath, near Altrincham.
📷 #photography #abandoned #derelict #industry #canal

Rare fossil reveals ancient leeches weren’t bloodsuckers A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller m...

🪱 The oldest leech ever found

A newly described fossil, Macromyzon siluricus, dates back more than 437 million years, pushing the known origin of leeches 200 million years earlier than previously thought.

🔗 news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

#SciComm #Paleontology 🧪

Tomorrow's video about the plans for a new rapid transit system in Liverpool is live and advert free for Patreon and Youtube Members.

Other perks of membership include access to the Members' only Discord and your name in the credits.

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Farewell Patricia Routledge. Here is a picture of her in 1968 receiving a Tony award from Groucho Marx.
What a life she had.

Happy Sputnik Day. Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite was launched into Earth's orbit on October 4, 1957 and marked the beginning of the Space Age. The name "Sputnik" also refers to the carrier rocket used for the launch, a Russian-language term for "fellow traveler”.

A fabulous fly agaric fungi, reminding me of childhood fairytale books!

Phwoar! How many #FlyAgaric photos are too many? I was convinced after such a dry summer the #mushrooms wouldn't be impressive, I was completely wrong! What will you find this weekend. #fungi #VitaminN #Lancashire

From a medieval manuscript, The artwork depicts two hares, a beetle-like insect, and a moth in a field of flowers and other plants

‘The quick-scut, the dew-flirt,
the grass-biter, the goibert,
the home-late, the do-the-dirt.
The starer, the wood-cat,
the purblind, the furze cat…’ ~ The Names of a Hare, trans from Middle English by Heaney. #BookWormSat
🖼️ From Cocharelli Codex, c.1330, Genoa, Italy, Brit. Library, 28841, f. 6v

A gloriously rotund brown frog flecked with burnt umber, resting on a dead leaf. This is the iconic Rhombophryne testudo. He is a thing of beauty.

After ELEVEN YEARS of work, today I finally submitted my 205-page monograph on the diamond frogs of Madagascar, genus Rhombophryne, in which we are describing several new species. Feels so good to finally have it submitted. I can't wait to share the new species with you all! 🧪🐸🟤💎

A mammoth figurine carved from ivory, its surface weathered with age. The shape captures the essence of the animal, with a prominent trunk and sloping back. The figure is displayed on a metal stand against a dark background.

I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago.

Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.

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An ancient Roman coin with nicks missing around the edge and the profile of a man in the centre.

Have you ever heard of the emperor Domitianus?

This remarkable coin discovered on farmland near Chalgrove in 2003 provides proof that a man named Domitianus claimed to be emperor in the early 270s CE. It was fused in a mass of nearly five thousand coins within a partially intact Roman jar.

Bronze figurine of a Capricorn with head and front legs of a goat and tail of a fish

Capricorn, the sea goat, was mascot to the II Augusta legion being the favoured astrological sign of #Roman emperor Augustus

This splendid copper alloy figurine was found in 2012 at Burrington #Somerset

Now in the excellent @museumofsomerset.bsky.social

📷 July 2021

#FindsFriday