Built in obsolescence is very annoying!
My trusty (and very old) fitness tracker which still works very well, doesn't allow me set a 2026 date, so in my world it is now 2015!
This and then she disappears on "pawtrol" and comes back to snuggle on my pillow.
Had a really good day writing today. Fingers crossed I can be similarly successful tomorrow.
WTAF
The bottom pic is a bit what my garden is like.
Teeming with wildlife and lovely flowers.
Yay :)
😍
I spent most of this afternoon trying (and failing) to write more of my chapter. So about 4pm, I went for a walk round my local churchyard.
I shouldn't be surprised at what a bit of #Nature can do: I came home, cooked tea, and have just had the best 3 hours work.
#AllSaintsDay #EcoChurch #Thesis
A reminder in case you haven't yet voted in the National Trust elections
On the 89th anniversary here is some appropriate listening.
youtu.be/AKhAlsXgOy8?...
“Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’.”
- business secretary, Peter Kyle.
What do they want knowledge for? Heaven forbid that students go to university to learn something!
Seen across on the "other" site. This is the academic vibe I like. #NosyBitch
j.r.r. tolkien, the return of the king
🤣🤣
The Ship of the Fens. A magnificent place.
For #InternationalCatDay here is Dotty just chillin'
I send my youngest a photo of the cat every day, as she is working away and she misses her.
So this is also a #DailyDotty
Boston Stump: Visible for miles against the big Lincolnshire horizon.
A definite childhood memory, we didn't do much in the way of holidays but I remember the summer comics.
“keep politics out of kids movies”
disney in 1973:
"Archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the presents puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another."
Stuart Hall, "Constituting an archive"
Great time presenting at the Society for Army Hstorical Research Conference today.
Had some great conversations too and lunch was fab. #cake
#SAHR2025
Well done everybody for a great event.
Definitely time for you to have a well deserved rest.
I had a stinky litter tray to clean out - does that count?
Oh, and when Dotty came in from early morning pawtrol and tapped me on the head to tell me to shift over in bed so she could snuggle where it was warm.
True - but it is even better is when it is asked as a question?
Permission is always needed to use the Big Light.
That is so true, we are willing to spend £££ on hand stitched linen and wool items, and handmade shoes for a hobby and then buy everyday clothes from charity shops!
#Priorities
From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account.
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
I respectfully refer you to Sir John Betjeman.
Definitely, I have a great insufficiency!
This is the motivation I needed today - thank you
Just had an idea
