Tim Powell

I was an ealdorman with a pretty hefty weregild, so dead though I am (hit with a rock), I was pretty happy with my station in life.

I was there, as a Wimbledon supporter. It hurt but a sensational goal.

Bought two so far, the latest a poetry book after reading a poem from it on bsky ('Whatever You Do, Just Don't', recommended). Am shortly to buy 'Stone Lands'.

The Live and Let Live pub with an evening sky to the west

A back street in Cambridge, one building bears an old painted advert for Colman's Starch

A black and white cat

The plant Bladder Senna, with pretty yellow flowers

A gentle evening stroll round the pleasant back streets of east Cambridge #UnconfinedWalks
A fine cat, the photo doesn't do her/him justice, and some rogue Bladder Senna probably escaped from someone's garden #morethanweeds.

The Council Housing one, no question.

Roman urban settlements? Chichester?

County Championship: Warwickshire chase down 393 to beat Worcestershire in thriller Warwickshire complete the third highest run chase in their history as they score 396-3 to beat local rivals Worcestershire at Edgbaston.

Astonishing win for Warwickshire, coming from nearly 400 behind to beat the old rivals
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Great to know the Turing material is staying in the UK.

Received my copy of 'Whatever You Do...' yesterday. I've just dipped into its pages but I'm very pleased with it indeed.

You'd better prepare a records retention schedule for him.

Religious Archives Group Conference 2025 . Booking is now open for this year’s Religious Archives Group conference on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief.We will hear about three recent digitisation projects:Th...

Our annual conference this year is on the theme of digitisation in archives of religion and belief. It's at The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social on 2 October, booking details below:

#RAG2025

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Back from a Bath Theatre School production of Les Miserables. Stupendous performances, wonderful acting, and the passionate way schoolchildren played the 'schoolboys' dying on the barricades for a better world was so moving. A nice red (appropriate) wine to recover my composure #ConfinedCocktails

sprung

Not many new #morethanweeds on recent walks so pleased to see some Great Willowherb this morning, seemingly strung from nothing.

#morethanweeds

I see what you mean!

I love that Arsenal kit, surely one of the classics.

As others have said, this is so relatable. Brought to my mind knowing there'd be a time when my son (now 18) wouldn't want to hold my hand and telling myself, 'and that's a good thing'.

Lovely, but a bit early for chips?

Advertisement (received in early July) for Christmas booking at camping and caravan holiday parks, featuring Father Christmas reading to 2 children.

Oh yes.

That's sad news. You have my sympathy.

I'd certainly not want to do that in this weather.

Now I've ventured outside, I too can hear music - from the Bath carnival. Nothing I've ever heard before, vaguely folkish, not unpleasant.

A view from my patio chair, wine in the forground, resting grey cat, sunlit hills of Bath in the distance.

A glass of Muscadet, with next door's cat Piper for company. #ConfinedCocktails

Building in Bath showing a painted advertisement for Nestles Milk, 'richest in cream'.

More milk in Bath, Cleveland Cottages

Yup, it has raised more suspicions than ever.

Tactile models of original documents at The National Archives.

We're proud to support new sensory workshops at The National Archives for students who are blind or partially sighted. Learn more: nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/se... Thanks to the Powell Family Foundation, the Edith Murphy Foundation and the Spectacle Makers' Charity for their generosity.

Shown here is a charter issued by King Wihtred (c.670 – 23rd April 725) granting freedom from taxation to the churches and monasteries of Kent, AD 699 [ref. U140/T1] Dated at Cilling, the witnesses include Archbishop Berhtuuald; Gemmund, Bishop of Rochester; Tobias (Gemmund's successor); and Hadrian, described as 'indignus monachus' – a colleague and advisor of Theodore of Tarsus, a former Archbishop of Canterbury. This charter was purchased by Sir Albert Stern at Sotheby's in 1946, for presentation to the county. Some information as to its previous history can be gained from its endorsements. It was sold by Messrs Puttick, auctioneers, in 1861 and purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps. Prior to this it was probably in the Surrenden Dering collection for 200 years – Dering's ownership indicated by marks of a saltire cross in a circle and a Greek letter Delta. An earlier endorsement, possibly dating to the late 12th century, indicates that it was formerly preserved at Christ Church.

#DidYouKnow that the earliest document held by Kent Archives is quite possibly the oldest possessed by any county repository in the United Kingdom? 📜👀

It's a charter issued by King Wihtred granting freedom from taxation to the churches and monasteries of #Kent, AD 699

☟ See U140/T1: bit.ly/4lioB0h

The charity 'Wireless for the Bedridden' (now called WaveLength, a lovely cause) was certainly still distributing transistor radios in the 1980s.