Mark S. Williamson

It may well have been, not sure where I got bread oven inside from… it looks like it’s been taken down a lot since my visit twenty odd years ago… I’ll have to dig out the photos!

A long time ago, on weekend off from a warehouse job I had in Nantes, I took an extra day off and searched out may of these. They really are amazingly huge. Did you find the one with a bread oven inside? Can’t remember the name now… I must go back!

When I started primary teaching (before they got a bit more strict about it). I would change into trainers and put an old trackie top from, perhaps, the 70s over my shirt and tie. Apparently that’s not sportswear.

A small stone in a field with a figure in the distance.

Another small stone in a field.

Another small stone, partially buried.

A figure standing on a small fallen stone.

We went to Worsthorne Stone Circle. The weather was bleak and there’s not much to actually see there on the ground. There was a cremation excavated there in the 1880’s so it is legit.
Saw our first snowdrops of spring on the walk back to the van…

#stonecircle #burnley

Menhir du Champ de Caesar, Vendée, France. Photo from around 2003/4. It’s a big one.
#standingstonesunday

Glad to be of assistance…

Did it help?

…and so it begins, again. Accompanied by Stone Circles by @spaceshipmark.bsky.social

#JigsawWednesday #Drones

Mark Williamson Stones, vans, traffic, music, noises etc.

And here are some films, in a variety of styles and genres, that I have made:

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backup discs Home of the Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra.

And here is some music that I encouraged some children to make:

backupdiscs.bandcamp.com

Forged River Recordings Limited edition, beautifully packaged CDs of rudimentary music, field recordings, archive etc. (also downloads)

If you’re new to following, here is some of the music I’ve made:

spaceship.bandcamp.com

Just realised there are nearly a thousand people following me on here. Thank you. Here I am despairing at the mess I’ve made in the ‘music room’…
If you follow me, you might get to hear what it sounds like.

Happy Birthday! You beat me to it by five months…

YouTube video by Mark Williamson Making Noise with Small Tins

Egg slicers make great tiny harps… youtu.be/iUR6fpkFiJE?...

This just showed up on my Facebook thing…!

@durotrigesdig.bsky.social

On a childhood holiday, we saw Richard Kiel (of Jaws in James Bond fame) on a ferry from Ramsgate to Dunkirk.
He was in a part of the ship with a particularly low ceiling and had to duck a bit.

...and look! Here is the Einstürzende Neubauten-stickered hard hat worn by Miles Russell and mentioned in the review of the Time Time tribute album:

Doesn’t look like it unfortunately… we plugged the laptop into the telly…

It’s mainly around Beeley in Derbyshire; the pub, Hob Hursts House (although the Church is actually in Castleton)

As a total non-gamer I loved this (to the extent that I went on a field trip to find the real world locations it was based on!)

First few minutes of the new Stranger Things season. It seems to have a proper surround mix. Which I appreciate.

YouTube video by Mark Williamson Happy Christmas 2025

Happy Christmas…

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Watching One Hand Clapping, the Wings thing. Do I remember it being a thing to criticise Linda for playing a keyboard with one finger? Because she’s playing a lot of minimoog on this, which is monophonic and cannot really be played with more than one finger (at a time).

Sadly, plenty of schools will ignore the current news and leave them up on the shelves alongside Rowling and Gaiman. (I’m still not sure if Roald Dahl should be there but at least he could write.)

In the ten years I spent as a primary school class teacher, I always refused to have that awful man’s shit books in my classroom.

YouTube video by Ade Fegan Jack Hargreaves - Out of Town - original theme music

(And not having to deal with the paperwork side of things) we can be more romantic about it.
I did realise, after I made the album, that I’d been subconsciously inspired by the theme from Jack Hargreaves’ Out of Town. Which is a version of Recueredos de la Alhambra youtu.be/tgUE3UvtcPs?...

It was interesting to figure out what the music should be. I guess, like the Johnny Flynn stuff on Detectorists and Digging for Britain I wanted it to be folkish but not from any particular tradition. There’s definitely a wonder and reverence from non-archaeologists and I guess, being detached

🏺 On #archaeology, the practice and meaning of it, as emotionally resonant & inspirational; reminds me of the affection and something more - wonder? reverence? - behind Detectorists, the soundtrack for that, and the musical connection through to Digging For Britain as Time Team's successor.

Thanks @luketurner.bsky.social for this lovely review of the ‘three days to find out’ album!

#timeteam @timeteam.bsky.social

And also, some other archaeologists on t-shirts…

forged-river.teemill.com