Tim Powell

Small purple flowers, in circular clumps of a dozen or so blooms, amid a variety of fallen autumn leaves.

Usually with white flowers, this lovely purple Alyssum (or Seaside Lobularia, though a long way from the coast) was an unexpected discovery this lunchtime. I like the pleasing effect of the fallen autumn leaves around the flowers.
#morethanweeds

Football Shirts as Heritage: Archiving Identity - Football Makes History This article examines the approaches of three English clubs to archiving football shirts, highlighting their heritage value as symbols of identity, memory, and community.

"More than just sportswear" - read former MA Heritage & Museum Studies student Stijn van Gerrevink's article on football shirts as heritage:

footballmakeshistory.eu/football-shi...

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

Oh yes, I feel I got my money's worth!

A fine city.

How long's your journey? I'm on the train to Edinburgh. Though thanks to an upgrade, not nearly as arduous as it might have been.

An early atumn sighting this afternoon of Purple Toadsflax. Very good for bees. #morethanweeds

All heroes are flawed. Otherwise they're fictional characters.

Buffet supper: quiche, olives, rolls and crackers.

Buffet supper for a biggish family get-together. I deserve this glass of red. #ConfinedCocktails

I remember liver and bacon, I loved it. All my school dinner puddings, though, were served with so much pink custard, you couldn't tell what they were.

Sounds like the Infinite Improbability Drive ((c) Douglas Adams)

Fantastic!

Good grief, I've found they've pinched my stuff too.

Migration Museum Walking Tour Discover 2000 years of migration history, following the stories of generations of migrants that have shaped the City of London.

Join the Migration Museum team for a walking tour exploring the incredible stories of the generations of migrants who’ve lived, worked, and shaped the City of London.

🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025
🕜 1.30–3pm
📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL
🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...

Wow, that's a great haul!

And what a day to do it! Nothing like owning your own ground!

A group of sunflowers, a dozen or more, brightening a passage-way in Bath

I found these sunflowers apparently growing wild in a back alley (though I wonder if they could have been planted to bring some joy to passers by). Magnificent. #morethanweeds

Someone, Stephen Fry, I think, suggested the best way not to have anyone sit next to you was to smile broadly at them and pat the empty seat next to you.

Thanks!

But only in their original languages, of course.

Yikes - the land surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant is up for sale!

Lot 1 is top-quality chalk downland bursting with wildflowers & butterflies - orchids, skippers… going for £950k. It absolutely needs to be preserved. Hope the NT or similar can buy

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That was my take as well.

Having been there with my M & D, death is such a trial for the living.

Oh, such a difficult choice. The Ambush.

Plymouth University, Maritime Business and Logistics.

Congratulations! And cheers, I'll join you with a tipple, as son number one is also off to uni in September.

Dumbarton Rock from the Clyde estuary.

A view of Dumbarton Rock, site of a hillfort from the Iron Age to the early middle ages, taken from the paddle steamer Waverley #HillfortsWednesday

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The Greats!

Emma by Jane Austen