Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann

Here is thinking of poor souls needing a lot of good luck. Godspeed.

I love it... And so spot on at times

Looks as if it really needs a turkey sized sample. Also, I think this corn might not be designed to go pop just produce some corn that has gone nearly soft. Still, I want to see this. 'Can we set up a go fund the turkey'?

That kitchen wing is amazing what is possible.

In unrelated news the nominations for the 2025 Darwin Awards will remain open until New Year. You too could become the most watched video of 2026. :-)

This week's visit was to the Egerton Mansion at #Tatton Park which currently beautifully decorated for Christmas. (If you have the chance visit). But what I would like is their amazing kitchen with this fantastic range island with six ovens and 8 hobs. #dreamsofahobbybaker.

Happy birthday

So "Ship Shipson"? :-) seriously I thought the kennings were more in the line with wavedancer and Seastallion (but then that's already taken).

2/2. The NLS has the right to remove disruptive elements from their premises. These are not the Trans or queer members of the community but the Anti-Trans activists who seek to bully them.

Happy to support this. The NLS is a place of research for many different groups. To make any one of these groups unwelcome sets a dangerous example, it also puts the frontline staff of the library at risk. 1/2

Thank you so much. If it is from the Manchester-Sheffield Road it might be linked to the Hope Cross and the cross at Cheadle
People just aren't appreciating enough what an amazing collection of Anglo-Saxon sculpture Derbyshire has (even if you ignore Bakewell, which you definitely shouldn't)

Why oh why can't I just get in the car and drive there right now. I could be there tomorrow for sunrise...alas the heating bill is beckoning

...'energetic' is one way to describe the destruction wreaked all over Italy by his generals.

Both Chester St. Winifred (new Cathedral) and St.John (old Cathedral) are partially built on bedrock and partially on Romans (same as York, Carlisle and Newcastle(19th c. interloper).

You will enjoy it. I am pretty sure

Have you seen Carlisle Cathedral? I would dearly love to know which Roman buildings underneath are causing this:

Someone I worked with a lifetime ago had the job of monitoring this. Whenever we got worried about Bede falling over the cliff, he and Peter Hill, who checked the results said 'stop worrying, all sound'.

This is basically fruit loops with custard? I am so glad I didn't grow up in the 1950s!

No need to restrict yourself to Cathedrals. I have lots of photographs of wonky arches, hastily added buttresses and records of continuing repairs to Go this parish churches from all over Europe.
As a priest once said to me: Look up and tell me that God doesn't love his church - it's still here!

But my bottle of pennies is only 3/4 full....another futile art project. :-)

The American penny died on Wednesday in Philadelphia. It was 232. The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the Treasury Department said. Nothing could be bought any more with a penny, as the cost to mint the penny had risen to more than 3 cents. nyti.ms/48bFd5K

The thing that always gets me is that despite all that - on the whole (Coventry, I see you) they survived WWII better than their Romanesque predecessors.

But there is a team of 30 people and a highly skilled Dombaumeister who makes sure of that - despite the Südbahn. :-). Greetings from another Cologne person in exile

This is fantastic news.

#OTD
Am 9. und 10. November 1938 wurden in ganz Deutschland Synagogen, Geschäfte und Wohnungen, geplündert und zerstört.
Alleine in #Frankfurt wurden über 3.000 jüdische Mitbürger in der #Festhalle zusammengetrieben und in #Konzentrationslager verschleppt.

#Novemberpogrome #NieWieder #WeRemember

Wie schade, da kommen so einige meiner Bücher her.

On second thoughts and going to the pictures again. This is either an incomplete cross with one part of the vertical shaft missing or two different crosses combined. Possibly the cross head coming from a later cross. Still amazing carvings

Detail of the cross head of the Anglo-Saxon high cross at Eyam with angels and the Annunciation?

Day trip to #Eyam in #Derbyshire. So much amazing history from mining to water catchment, to beautiful architecture, and of course the plague story. In the middle of it all a beautiful and pretty complete #Anglo-Saxon cross with figurative decoration and lots of Angels. #archaeology #history

Capidava was an important Geto-Dacian center on the right bank of the #Danube. After the #Roman conquest, it became a civil and military center, as part of the province of Moesia Inferior (later Scythia Minor), modern Dobruja.

#RomanFortThursday 🗡️ #Archaeology
#History

Hi. That is eye watering and unnecessary. Get an Interrail ticket for half the price, even after you pay for the reservations, it also gives you the chance of switching trains without problems. And yes, there are first class Interrail tickets.