Bowyer Practice also did some incredible conservation and modernisation work, and I think that really comes through in their own house, a grade II Georgian that’s been very delicately adapted for accessibility.
An engraving of circle of Edwardian(?) men sitting in a circle on each others' laps and the caption "Fig. 28 - Sitting without Chairs."
Things I found on my laptop, an occasional series
In Yorkshire, UK
🧶 #knit #swap #donate #yarn
This looks good!
Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
#medievalsky
#history
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Imperial War Museum has this, maybe a couple of others, but WWI and WW2 related.
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Maybe @theorchardproject.bsky.social ?
This is St Peter's, Llancillo in Herefordshire. It sits on the Anglo-Welsh border deep in the Black Mountains and is only accessible by foot - being more than a mile from the nearest road.
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Captain it's Wednesday
Captain it's Wednesday
1825: Found a Mavis Thrushes nest with 3 eggs these birds always build early they make a nest like a blackbirds but instinct has taught them a lesson against the cold which the other has no occasion for & that is they never line their nests without wool which keeps the nest warm at this early...
#OtD 1 Mar 1954 a group of students at Indiana University started the Green Feather Movement to protest against a McCarthyist attempt to ban Robin Hood from school books for promoting communism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8111...
@oddthisday must be older than he presents himself, because here he has described much of my cultural life of, um, nearly 50 years ago.
Botanical illustration of Brunonia australis, showing a central plant with long, slender stems topped with small, cluster-like blue flowers and elongated green leaves radiating from the base. Surrounding the main plant are detailed drawings of flower parts, seeds, and root structures in blue, yellow, and beige tones, highlighting the plant’s anatomy. The illustration is labeled with Latin text and scientific notations typical of early 19th-century botanical studies.
☘ Ferdinandi Bauer Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae, sive, Icones generum quae in Prodromo florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen descripsit Robertus Brown
Londini, Veneunt apud auctorem, 10 Russel Street, Bloomsbury, 1813
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Aha! It’s the service itself that’s obsolete. Thank you.
Thanks. Austria. Should be fine, nothing in the parcel is on the prohibited list. So annoying!
Old textbooks. Cassette tapes. Tiny liqueur glasses. Imperial standard nuts and bolts.
Okay. I know. Don’t @ me. One person’s obsolete is another’s treasure. But I should be able to send obsolete stuff in the post. What stupid nonsense.
Shouldn’t I be allowed to send obsolete products in the mail if I want to?
Dear Mr Kirkdale bookshop keeper, It's me, the boy who asked to put the "One Piece" book on hold. How's your day been so far? Well for me, I'm getting thro teeth out at the dentist, not because their rotten but because I need to braces (I cind of scared). Due to the above, I will not be able to buy the book so please, please, please can you keep the book for one more day. From the boy, Jacob is my name. p.s. plase, please, please rec.
Imagine being like this. Maybe we actually were all once like this. Be more like this guy!
A bunch of drunken Lime bikes in a heap on the pavement
Okay @limebike.bsky.social time you picked up this heap obstructing the way. Coleraine Road SE3.
I volunteer now and then at Charlton House’s walled garden. The project just turned 6 years old, and what a difference! Great use of comparison photos, too.
#gardening
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I am not a religious person, but I was still profoundly moved by this. Watch the whole thing (4-5 minutes). You'll be glad you did.
The world before modern medicine was a really scary place.
#Medical
#Historian
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PeacefulSolitide a singular bird, in a peaceful setting.
Immer Gos caught in a static sundown.
Great Northern diver
Common Loon
#Papay #Orkney
Anyone know of any museums, libraries, professional bodies or societies that have made the decision to delete their Twitter accounts?
Welcome to the Library of Profanity
Whitstable's number one immersive experience (if you like a resting bitch face)
A bright rainbow and fainter second rainbow rise behind some classic Victorian terrace houses.
Double rainbow!
And did Hegseth go to Princeton? The Princeton men my father met at training camp taught him how to sleep without closing his eyes. Life skills, I guess.
My late father graduated from Harvard, joined the officer corps there, and went straight into the army. Crossed to France on D-Day +2, and was wounded. Nearly lost his life for his country and was proud of both college and nation till he died. He would have been horrified by this spurious ban.
Advert for ‘The Equanimity Festival’
Sod that
