Lucy Betteridge-Dyson

Wonder how this is panning out for all those people who go on and on about how moving to Dubai is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

She is, a rarity these days!

I am biased because @sarahloumiller.bsky.social is a great pal, but her work on women in intelligence is particularly fabulous IMO. I know she is working on some really exciting projects at the moment 👀 🤫

Toby Keith would be loving this

Managed to go for a gentle ride in the school. Maxy moo was very good. He is super stiff in his back at the moment from an old injury, this long wet winter hasn’t helped.

The magic lantern dispatch newsletter along with a photo by Ernest Brooks of a statue of Mary in a ruined church in Hervilly. A postcard of an artillery unit and a sticker with the caption "lean into it" with the leaning virgin of Albert.

The Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres is partially destroyed and a golden statue of the virgin Mary hangs at a precarious angle from the top steeple. Credit: Australian War Memorial E02068 taken by Frank Hurley 1918.

Received my first packet from the magic lantern mail club today! Carla-Jean is a magnificent historian and the cherry on top was the "Lean into it" sticker with the golden virgin of Albert. If you know, you know! 🗃️ #cdnhist

Doing a work out video I think which just goes to show it’s safer to sit and eat doughnuts.

I know right! Don’t know what’s going on lately!

Thanks for your support pal 🙂

Ah, cheers mate. Wasn’t my best but glad people enjoyed it.

Yes I’ve fractured my foot. Hooray. Just what one needs with a horse to exercise and a 6 month old 😂. In other news, yet another power cut this morning. Going to my parents’ place because COFFFEEEEE

Always appreciate your support!

If you’re on Instagram (I know, it’s awful) do pop by and follow me @lmbd1418 !

Finally booked our holiday

“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library.”

— Carl Sagan

a man with blonde hair and a beard is laying down ALT: a man with blonde hair and a beard is laying down

That is good going

Oh god knows, I think it’s a stress fracture. Either that or tendon damage. Hobbling around.

LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes An insight into the secretive 'matchstick men' painter as he guides us through his revealing life story in unheard interviews from the end of his life, lip-synced by Ian McKellen.

Just brilliant.

Ted fell asleep during swim class today whilst floating on his back 😂

In other news: I’ve managed to get my hands on the back catalog of the British Mule Society Journal which I’ll be helping to digitise. I came across a name I did not expect to see in the index, but it all makes sense somehow:

She barked to go outside just to sit in the sun. I know the feeling babe.

This is brilliant. Thanks B!

Reclining boar with magnificent tusks in a snow-covered landscape

Ohara Koson

Think I’ve fractured my metatarsal 😭 also, in case you didn’t know, babies are incredibly tiring.

Hezekiah Moscow und Ich. Groß in Deutschland!

Me and my fella are in Der Spiegel online. Might make it to print too!

Vielen Dank Der Spiegel, Frank Thadeusz, Ossi Piispanen 🙏🏻

I feel sick and my heart might explode. And I only look and sound SLIGHTLY like an obsessed crazy woman, right? 😆

I love how it’s all the men suggesting these thirst traps. On the road to Man-delaylay 🔥 could be the top shelf version.

I enjoy this detailed debate as if he’s already accepted the role

Howling.

Great, now I fancy Bill Slim.