EH have started opening up Tynemouth Priory for sunrise walks for free, closing for an hour or so before opening again at normal times for normal pricing.
I've not looked into it, and it seems fairly irregular when it happens, but I don't think it gives wider access than the usual ticketed entry.
Cow tools!
I did get a little slated on the old site for daring to suggest many famous sites are simply just fields (Yeavering, Spong Hill etc), but nothing beats seeing it in person. Sutton Hoo for definite comes across far better on the ground than any of the excavation reports tell you.
Sunrise at a trig point. The golden rays have just poked above the horizon with the concrete post still covered in frost.
A selfie of myself stood in from of the trig point, the sun glaring at me from behind the camera. My orange coat is reflects back the orange light as if it was glowing.
View of the access road snaking down the hilltop, long shadows cast by the snow poles.
View of my car's info screen when I set off, telling me that the air temperature was -5 degrees Celsius
A very cold breeze to blow away the cobwebs
Spiritually appropriately, this book was started in a sunny beer garden in Norwich then continued in a sunny field in north-west Norfolk back in July, and largely finished in a wet and cold site cabin in a Shropshire field in December.
Continuing the thread with the last/first of 2025 and 2026.
Definitely a book that is heavily on the pro-site-visit side.
Daniel Lee's 'The SS Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi'
(Realised I never put this one) Never trust a Nazi was my takeaway.
The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of
Today's wordle. I have entered one guess, and that guess is 'Jesus', and that guess is wrong.
Rude
The appropriately-sized hand of a six-foot tall person holds a 'Maxi Babybel' out to the camera. It is large. It is chunky. It is a big boi. It is roughly the size of the palm, and feels substantial.
PSA: Adultbels are currently for sale in Sainsbury's.
It’s a Christmas market. Yes it looks like a boot sale in the car park but we’ve got mulled wine and Geoff made some mince pies.
YouTube Wrapped screenshot. My top five interests are vehicles, cooking, military history, comedy, and boats.
Very middle-aged man vibes from my YouTube history
My dad is a Methodist minister and I used to crawl from the back of the church right up to the front to be picked up and held by him whilst he preached. A number of times the person up front was not him, but still picked me up and carried on regardless.
The image is of a comic. Panel one depicts Santa Claus. He says, "Have you been naughty or nice?" Panel two depicts a happy dog. He says, "I am ALWAYS a good boy." Santa responds "Very nice!" Panel three depicts Santa again. He says "...And you?" Panel four depicts an orange cat climbing a Christmas tree, turning his head to look back at Santa.
Potentially. Too crowded to bother waiting to try, so it’ll always be a mystery
Photo shows a market stall selling savoury meat-based snacks. A sign advertises the Pie of the Day, which is listed as 'Poppy's Paddington Pie' with a hand drawn illustration of Paddington Bear.
And what, exactly, makes it a Paddington Pie?
Missed it by heading south for work, but we did have snow flurries yesterday morning.
End of aisle display at an outdoor shop. Three metal detectors are shown beneath the manufacturer's brand.
Close up of information and accompanying photos next to the detectors, saying that they can be used to find coins, treasure, relics and jewellery.
Meant to share these ages ago but life got in the way. Metal detectors for sale at Go Outdoors back before the summer, explicitly with the goal of finding "treasure" and "relics"...
Poster for the course booking. The season is between the 12th of July to the 7th of August, with excavation and human remains courses now available to be booked. More courses will also be advertised soon.
The bookings for the 2026 season are now open!
The 2026 season will be a special one for us as we will be celebrating our 30th anniversary, so there has never been a better time to join us!
Just visit www.sharp.org.uk for more details!
It did result in a very funny advert that Google put out of our head of IT doing his best "as a history teacher, I love the Google software" impression, that got played a lot in the school in random lessons as adverts on YouTube had realised that school/teacher accounts needed to be targeted to.
Doesn't add much, but that's my old school uniform (them having made money on selling loads of stock photos one year), and that school had absolutely bought into the tech bro nonsense. We were even a 'Google school' at one point, using Chromebooks and their own e-classroom website.
It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
It's a poster of some research I did in undergrad. No one needs this.
Screenshot of an email from Academia.edu I forming my that their AI has turned my uploaded paper into a "sharable comic"
Who is asking for this?
Operating 'a one for you, one for me' policy with my treat bowl tonight.
Went out last night to see the local regional orchestra perform* and it was nice to see people still make the effort to dress up** to go out to the theatre.
*How To Train Your Dragon play along
**as vikings
Gonzo and Rizzo
And Doctor Who, which did NOT die...
Boxes of Roses and Whiskas for kittens,
Discounts on kettles and M&S mittens
That lovely young man who sang "fried onion rings"
I think non white people can advertise things
A cat sits on the tv stand, right in front of the tv, bang in the centre and blocking a lot of the content.
If anything, his position adds to the viewing experience
