Matt Leivers

Nothing that's too small to see can matter... or something

One of my happiest memories of my Dad - who was a lifelong civil servant - is of him watching Yes Minister. Like Stupid Deaths, it's funny 'cause it's true.

Great to see you, Jody

The report on our excavations at Cheeseman's Green, Ashord is now on our open library. A remarkable site with two Late Mesolithic cremation burials among a host of other evidence.
wessexarchaeologylibrary.org/library/repository/view/233/

Did you ever find out what the stone was?

New Opportunity – Chair of Expert & Stakeholder Group  ⋆ Stonehenge & Avebury This is a prestigious voluntary opportunity to play a key role in the governance of Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site (WHS) and contribute to protecting the WHS for current and future generat...

www.stonehengeandaveburywhs.org/new-opportun...

I loved Villager, and I come from a family of Nottinghamshire miners, so I'm looking forward to this one a great deal.

Miss Roscoe the cat - aka The CEO - posing with four paperbacks of my book 1983 and looking kind of pissed off after I told her a cat only appears very briefly in it

My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below.

You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining

"some of Kesey's autobiographical writings" 🙄

Kesey remains one of my favourite writers (for the first two novels, anyway) but re-reading this as an adult alongside so of Kesey's autobiographical writers did alot to shift my teenage notion of him as something like Jesus to something closer to egotistical self-obsessed nightmare

Thanks! I had no idea. Information about anything at Tara was frustratingly hard to come by.

Virtually none now, either, but that meant I could sound knowledgeable without fear of contradiction!

For Standing Stone Sunday, here are a couple in the churchyard at Tara.

the missing final word is 'values'

Jacquetta Hawkes, of all people, pre-empting John Barrett by a good half century

Cloudflare won't let me see it, so I don't know if you've realised the danger here or not, but when you actually end up liking The Yes Album don't say I didn't warn you.

Ho ho.

Glacial transport or you're dumped

It's your fault!

At first I thought that was a Hawkwind bootleg I don't have. Looks ace.

Any good? Sorry it's you-know-where related

Was Stonehenge a phallic temple? Study suggests key stone represents a giant penis Research suggests fallen stone was deliberately altered in order to give it a phallic appearance

A giant penis at Stonehenge? That's hardly news www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

I apologise in advance for the five books about Stonehenge-related things I currently have in various stages of completion.

❗️Save the date❗️

Europa Conference 2025: Landscape connectivity in Prehistory at Univ of Reading, Sat 7th June 2025. Conference honours achievements of Prof. Martin Bell, Prof of Arch Science at Univ of Reading.

Call for papers now live. Info in link:

www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...

You can't stay at the YMCA (by Ian Samson)

When I was an undergraduate at SDUC Lampeter, I was taught by Rob Young, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley, Mike Shanks, Matthew Johnson, Martin Bell, and Nick Barton, among others. It beggars belief that the institution has been run into the ground so comprehensively.

Kabbalah?

Petition: We call on UWTSD and the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the long-term future of Lampeter campus The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) has announced a plan to end all undergraduate teaching at its Lampeter campus by September 2025, a decision that would sever nearly 200 years of Lam...

This is going to be an uphill struggle. UWTSD are evidently disinterested in keeping the Lampeter campus alive. We presented a plan for the revitalisation of the University to them several years ago but might as well not have bothered. petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

Happy new year, Rik. Hope you're quickly better

If I remember my Orwell, this was basically his argument in Part 2 of Wigan Pier?