Reichenbach Falls by Sidney Paget Strand magazine 1893 Illustration for "The Adventure of the Final Problem" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Reichenbach –
Come for the view, stay for the fall
#WyrdWednesday #travel #SherlockHolmes
I need to get back to listening to nothing except David Bowie.
Young Man Bogart.
The good news is that Chapters 44 and 45 are done. The bad news is that part five, the final section will have 12 chapters instead of the expected 10, so I'm kind of spinning my wheels.
A balloon 4 above a balloon 2
It was an eerie sight, the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything, all alone, ambling up Fitzjohn Street last night in the form of an oversized silver balloon.
A balloon 4 above a balloon 2
It was an eerie sight, the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything, all alone, ambling up Fitzjohn Street last night in the form of an oversized silver balloon.
Splashes of green and white foliage on Hampstead Heath. It’s alive! It’s ALIVE!
Very pleased to receive author’s copies of Offa, King of the Mercians from @yalebooks.bsky.social today. Looking superb, and an excellent publishing experience!
The Heath looking foggily picturesque these days
No, just a place of quiet despair.
One last time, autocorrect: It is not Guibert de Cogent? Okay?
I hate feeling relevant
Two books: Norman Cohn's Pursuit of the Millennium and @medievaljay.bsky.social's Armies of Heaven. We've been here before. Just not with nuclear weapons.
One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.
Visited the Sigmund Freud Museum in London today. While perusing Anna Freud’s library, I was delighted to see that she was a Lawrence Block fan. I read “The Burglar in the Closet” about the time it came out, which means that at some point Anna Freud and I were reading the same book
Isn’t it pretty to think so?
It is a strange feeling, being pigeon holed like that.
Another review of my edited volume Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception has just appeared. Menendez runs a thorough eye over each chapter:
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The ebook is downright affordable from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social.
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That the sweet buds which with a modest pride
Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside,
The Heath looking hopeful again this morning. Is that spring over the misty horizon?
The Heath looking hopeful again this morning. Is that spring over the misty horizon?
Happy Twin Peaks day to everyone like me still stuck in the Red Room
Perfection
I’ll be talking about my recent research on the Bayeux Tapestry in a public lecture here in Bristol on Thursday 30 April. Attendance is FREE and includes a drinks reception 🍷 Everybody welcome! Please join us if you can and help spread the word! #medievalsky #skystorians
One tree flowering white amid a leafless wood
A sign of hope on the Heath this blustery miserable morning that winter may be losing its grip
One tree flowering white amid a leafless wood
A sign of hope on the Heath this blustery miserable morning that winter may be losing its grip
I think only Assassins will die in this chapter
Chapter 43 is about the Assassins. It had to happen eventually.
A brick wall with a message painted in thick white letters: DO NOT DEMOLISH THIS WALL
The graffiti artists in Hampstead are defiantly pro status quo
Every time you read the word “technofeudal” you have to read something by Peggy Brown. Doesn’t matter what. Just read anything she published to compensate your brain for the violence of a stupid concept you’ve been forced to assimilate with your eyes.
