Dr Tig Lang

A ball of yellow wool, and sample pieces of yellow and green.

It's also a good dye plant: the yellow is almost too bright, but makes a lovely green if overdyed with indigo. Alum mordant for the yellow.

1971-2?

Litter picker and two bin bags full of rubbish.

Picked up two bags of rubbish in half a mile of country lane. What is WRONG with people???!!!

It's always trying to take my commas away!

Amanda drives an ancient "electric brougham", which she bought for a pound, in Margery Allingham's 'Sweet Danger' (1933). She charges its battery with power from the watermill in the village, & it goes for five miles, "two and a half miles out and two and a half miles back" on each battery charge.

😁

I've already used it - it's superb!

I've been to York in the spring so often that this view looks really odd without daffodils!

I thought your paper was fascinating when I first heard it in Leeds and even more so on second viewing after I got home. I look forward to more!

My husband's rented rooms in Bristol in 1984 had a bath like this (with an ancient, scary gas geyser to heat the water).

Replica of a medieval surgical instrument designed and made by surgeon John Bradmore to remove an embedded arrow.

...Prince Henry unwisely lifts his visor, and days later at Kenilworth Castle surgeon John Bradmore retrieves an arrowhead from the back of his skull with an instrument of his own devising.

And yet trying to find out from our local medical practice whether we need a tetanus booster after an injury takes multiple phone calls, great determination, and no objection to being made to feel like a hypochondriac for asking ☹️

Very specialist scriptwriters and subtitlers, we assume?!?

Moomin reading a heap of books

When you remember what you bought at the bookfair!

#imc2025
@imc-leeds.bsky.social

When you remember it's a year to go before the next IMC...

#imc2025
@imc-leeds.bsky.social

Too many "wonderfuls" and #IMC2025 are surely incompatible statements?

These are amazing! So beautiful and so witty.

Thanks! You too! What a week, eh? 😊

Look threatening, they said (you can't see the big grin behind the pigface)! @imc-leeds.bsky.social was fun from beginning to end. #IMC2025 #medievalsky

The @yorkisthistory.bsky.social sessions are on all day tomorrow @imc-leeds.bsky.social
#IMC2025

Wonder what these potions do?
Come to session 642!

#imc2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social and again, with the squirrel added this time!

I've not seen any @imc-leeds.bsky.social bunnies yet: will a squirrel do? #imc2025

My sample audience wasn't impressed by my trial run for session 642 #IMC2025, though .....

My preparations for session 642 at #IMC2025!

It's more a question of whether I was 'normal' before, really ....

If you are interested in Constantinus Africanus from the point of view of studying the brain, Anne Jeavons' PhD thesis from the University of Reading, 'Concepts and treatment of disorders of the mind and brain in medieval England: The impact of the work of Constantine the African' (2023) is online.

I think the fourth word is 'ready', not 'rowdy'. (I agree that the missing words are 'accursedly' and 'cheap').

I'll be singing it in my head all day now!

Isn't that a Babel fish? (perhaps showing my age by the Hitchhiker's Guide ref?)

Battering ram. Some have likened my conversation to .... Hmmm. Show nobody :-)