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This is lovely!
Strongly reminds me of the sweet little Welsh church at Pontfaen next to the house a group of us use for fieldwork stays. But could be any one of so so many similar gems.

🗃️ jobs, jobs, jobs - and one for #medievalsky

I’m going to keep sharing this PSA: although the MMR is usually given at 12 and 18 months, your baby can get a first dose as early as 6 months. They will still need the other two doses, because immunity doesn’t stick at that age, and insurance may not cover it. But it’s protection.

This thread is an absolute joy! Loved all the bird facts tucked in there. Thank you @rspb.bsky.social 😍🪶

Hello environmental historians - what are your book recommends on the histories of communal access to water? For me, 'cause I'm interested 💧

Superb, as ever, Allan!

Brilliant! How did I not know this? Thank you for flagging 🙏

Such a hopeful sight! 💚

I went at 17 on an A-level Geography trip and loved it! 🖤

A photograph I took quite early on New Year's Day, 2019, while walking on the Isle of Purbeck during the research for my book Ring The Hill, not long before I did a tweet using the photo and this same caption. I imagine it won't have as much impact here, since loads of people have since reused it, and the phrase is now more widely known. It is still very very true, though. Lots of things are solved by walking. Although not everything, obviously.

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

Early Morning. 6°C and blue skies. Snowdrops.

Early Morning. 6°C and blue skies. Snowdrops

Superb, love this!
👀 @artefactual.bsky.social

Applications for Up Skill, Down Dale 2026 are OPEN!

A free 12‑month volunteering programme for 18–24yr olds in/around the #YorkshireDales. Monthly Saturday sessions, travel support + no experience needed!

Apply by 25 Feb 👉 on our website

📩 caroline.hall@yorkshiredales.org.uk

Sublime 🖤

Wonderful - well done and congratulations, Hannah!
Thank you for your tireless efforts
🪶🪶🪶🪶

Such a wonderful opportunity to nurture a significant area for nature, habitat, heritage and a space for humans to breathe 💚

(The large smirk factor is a bonus, but it’s not the main point… 😉)

Blue cheese axe 💛

Also, libraries pay for books! Don't apologize if your friend bought a book and lent it to you, either. If you want to own a book, pay for it. But if you're not sure you want to own the book yet or you can't afford the book, borrow it from an owner willing to lend! (Like a library.)

Thornton Rust, Wensleydale.

'Vernacular Architecture of the Yorkshire Dales' - YVBSG day school held in conjunction with Upper Wharfedale Heritage Group on 28 Feb 2026 in Skipton Town Hall. Do join us for an excellent programme of talks exploring the wonderful traditional buildings of the Dales! www.yvbsg.org.uk/events.html

Look at this beauty!! 💙🪲

A new one to me - the rare Blue Ground Beetle (Carabus intricatus), native to the UK and found in a handful of sites in England & Wales.

Well this looks interesting for one of my #AerialArchaeology #RemoteSensing #GIS mutuals!

Might be an interested @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social member out there?

Oh my, I didn’t know I needed this website, but perhaps I do… ⛵️

Three million cheers for sharing it!

👋 Sorry to miss you all this week! Out of office for field survey in the cold but beautiful Yorkshire Dales.

I never got to bounce (🥲), but I did get to buy myself and appropriate friends bags made from the deflated artwork - forever amusing and a good conversation starter

I tackled just mobile ones, far too easy to click up 100s on there: searches more wide ranging (from academic to who was that actor or where can I buy these thermals) and device always too close at hand 😬

PC ones get cleared most weeks as I do full shutdown regularly for the laptop’s health.

The window drew inspiration from the book 'Cuthbert and the Animals 'by John Mc Manners & the Lindisfarne Gospels. So two otters link to “The Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters” who were reputed to have warmed and dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating and praying whilst standing in the sea. The Celtic knotwork border is influenced by designs in the Lindisfarne Gospels.

St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North #Yorkshire

“St Cuthbert” window (2020)
#HelenWhittaker

The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea.

#StainedGlassSunday

I managed to reduce from 486 (🫣) to 150 last week. Progress, but looking for zero + a cache-clear.

Surprising number of repeats, many academic searches/articles (which I enjoyed rediscovering), recipes, places to visit, ‘what on earth can I buy for so-and-so’s, and lots of www.metcheck.com

Very old fieldnotes , 1911, on ringforts of Co Louth. Written by Harry Tempest. The pages are yellowing, the handwriting reassuringly scrawly yet precise

And the archaeology of archaeology: notebooks on ringforts, 1911, belonging to Harry Tempest

I visited this on Sunday, it’s truly wonderful.