Alex (Forever Twixmas Edition)

It’s compost time.

A digital map of Europe is shown with dark blue location markers displaying white numbers, indicating quantities at various points across the continent. The highest concentrations appear in Germany (9.7k), France (130), Italy (228), and the United Kingdom (84), with smaller clusters in surrounding countries. The map offers both “Map View” and “List View” options, suggesting an interactive interface for exploring regional data or listings.

Behold the "Dawn Chorus", a citizen-science project where people record birdsong in their local neighborhood and upload it

you can listen to birds from around the world by drilling down on the map

item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

‎Pestle: Recipe Manager App - App Store Download Pestle: Recipe Manager by Will Bishop on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Pestle: Recipe Manager.

apps.apple.com/app/apple-st... Pestle recipe manager is super handy - currently using it to wrangle #Christmas #baking (making candied orange peel so that I can use it in choc-orange cookies)

a boy is looking at a woman with a santa hat on . ALT: a boy is looking at a woman with a santa hat on .

'Gavin and Stacey' is my traditional lead-up to Xmas binge watch, but TVNZ is taking it off air in 20 days which is far too soon, which means Xmas is already RUINED.

Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over

On Black & White & Read All Over, we have a resources page for academics to find publications to pitch their work to, an announcements page to celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues, and a page that's literally just pictures of our cat Biscuits because we understand this community's needs.

Mr Cross has presented a paper on the Amazon district of South America to the quarterly meeting of the Bicester and Claydon Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses Association. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Still no details for Mr Capp's auction. #OnePlaceStudies #1875OPS

Tonga Could Soon Become the First Country to Recognize Whale Rights | Atmos Ahead of Tonga’s election, whale and ocean advocates are preparing a bill to grant legal personhood to the island kingdom’s first ancestors.

Personhood for the #whales of #Oceania, led by Tonga. atmos.earth/ecological-w...

UK, nominate your history teacher for the Inspiring History Teaching Awards www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...

An ad for "The Bottled Curse, or Sally The Dunstable Witch, A Legend of the Priory Church" by Alfred P. Wire in this issue of the Leighton Buzzard Observer (26 Oct 1875) has led me to this 2008 news article with the fascinating story of how this came to be published www.bbc.com/threecountie...

Still no details of Mr Capp's properties. Starting to suspect Messrs F. & D.T. Willis are also "late", not just Mr Capp. #OnePlaceStudies #1875OPS

#OhNoIBoughtAnotherBook and another one.

Indeed. *readies protest sign*

Corn dealer Joseph Faulkner supplied baker Henry Rogers with flour weekly, and has sued Henry’s father Joseph (proprietor of the Dove Inn) for the outstanding amount of £64 (!) from Dec 1874 (!) #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies

For those of you also impatiently waiting for the details of Mr Capp's properties that are to be auctioned, I regret to inform you that this week is still not that week. *side-eyes Messrs F. & D.T. Willis, solicitors* #OnePlaceStudies #1875OPS

I know nothing about the bonsai wizardry you are conjuring but your pictures always make me very happy.

#Bonsai Forest Friday

Nine Pines Looking Fine.

9 x Japanese black pine forest in development.

Just playing with controlled growth via candle management only for now and seeing what the trees do by themselves as far as movement.

Cool tiny cones too.
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Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

We need to know! We’d better get a bonus mention of the tenant names when they eventually tell us.

An advertisement for the auction of the properties of the late Stephen Capp has appeared for the fourth week in a row, promising “full particulars will shortly appear”, but when, pray tell? #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Henry Bolton and Thomas Ginger were both fined for being drunk last month (with Henry also being disorderly in court), and there were around 300 attendees at the Harvest Festival (fed by Mr Whitman). #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies

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Using a timeline to organize historical research material Timelines | #OnePlaceTimelines | Oct 2025 - Society for One-Place Studies I started researching my One-Place Study, the Lying-in Department (1878-1918) at the Destitute Asylum in Adelaide, South Australia (Figure 1), about four years ago for my master’s degree. At that time...

www.one-place-studies.org/using-a-time... An interesting look at a building that played an important role in the lives of its temporary inhabitants #OnePlaceStudies #Australia

Some arches in London.

One of the arches close up. A tiny felt mouse dressed as Rick Astley is on the ground in the centre of the arch.

A close up of Rick Astley Mouse with the arch in the background.

A close up of The Intellectual Mouse Couple and The French Rustic Mouse Couple with the arches in the background.

Finally got around to taking Rick Astley Mouse to Freston Road, where bits of the Never Gonna Give You Up video were filmed. The Intellectual Mouse Couple and French Rustic Mouse Couple came along too.

Marian Call Marian Call has things to say. She sounds a little like Ingrid Michaelson meets They Might Be Giants & Regina Spektor for bourbon & laughs, which sounds improbable, but give it a try. She hails from A...

it's bandcamp Friday! if you appreciate an indie musician, buy something from them today! mariancall.bandcamp.com

Buying a single album is worth more to an artist than thousands of streams in a month.

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Welcome to the Coral City Kissing Club - Bluestriped Grunt edition 😘😘 #bluestripedgrunt #grunt #coralcitykissingclub #mouthoff #mouthfight #fishfight #kissyfish #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #coralcity #biscaynebay

Save Our Water Conservation Orders Te Waikoropupū Springs have some of the clearest water ever measured on earth. In 2023, the Springs were protected by a Water Conservation Order (WCO). The WCO gives a special cloak of protection that...

To keep fighting to maintain Water Conservation Orders already granted and now under threat, please sign: community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/sa...

YouTube video by Society of Genealogists Finding a (micro) focus – an example from Waters Upton - Steve Jackson

Back in 2023, on the day 1 of the first All About That Place event, I explained how my own #OnePlaceStudy of Waters Upton in Shropshire began, and how Finding a (micro) focus🔗 can provide a ‘way in’ to studying a larger place. #AATP25 #OnePlaceWednesday