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Conservation Officer and Public Archaeologist. Chester Heritage Festival, founder of #Rowvember and Heritage Pub Club. Occasional art-archaeology writer. Leader of long walks. FSA.

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Hot take: if you can't cook well with tofu, you can't cook well.

Because tofu is a blank canvas. It does what you tell it to.

If you have the basics down—deep frying, searing, sauces, seasonings, etc.—you can make good tofu. If your tofu dishes suck... well.

13.03.2026 21:44 👍 1117 🔁 205 💬 5 📌 1

If Costa Coffee sold a badge that says ‘Yes, I know it’s sparkling’ I would buy it

28.02.2026 07:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You could be forgiven for thinking that only woodlands can be ancient in Britain

But there are ancient versions of many other habitats, including grasslands

www.plantlife.org.uk/wp-content/u...

27.02.2026 08:08 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

🙌

27.02.2026 06:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

may I introduce you to: the Paralympics, starting 6 March

21.02.2026 22:42 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

There are countless volunteers that make Heritage Chester events possible, together with groups of professionals who give their time and regularly come together to share ideas and responsibilities. #Chester #heritage #heritageevents

21.02.2026 19:30 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

My absolute favourite part of any breaking news is when a police spokesperson comes out in front of the cameras and confirms the news by delivering a version of it with all the details removed. Pure theatre.

19.02.2026 16:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Norfolk day 1: sunny, day 2: full on snowstorm, day 3: sunny 🤷‍♂️

16.02.2026 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah, ok

14.02.2026 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The sole survival in situ of a shrine of this kind and it’s just in a field next to a playground

14.02.2026 14:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Minerva's Shrine, Chester - Wikipedia

Does the shrine to Minerva in Chester for your criteria? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva...

14.02.2026 14:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

drama

13.02.2026 22:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Just going to leave this here

12.02.2026 18:54 👍 2937 🔁 1198 💬 48 📌 32
A screenshot of text that says ‘the council’s conservation officer has no objection to the proposed works and agrees with the method statement submitted’

A screenshot of text that says ‘the council’s conservation officer has no objection to the proposed works and agrees with the method statement submitted’

In the news again…

12.02.2026 17:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Note the tribute to Hokusai’s Great Wave Off Kanagawa in the far left corner

05.02.2026 20:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If a Yorkshire pudding doesn’t have terrain, regions, character areas, maybe a micro-climate, I’m not interested

05.02.2026 20:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve always made good Yorkshire puddings but this one’s up there with my best work

05.02.2026 20:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A huge Yorkshire pudding

A huge Yorkshire pudding

Yes

05.02.2026 18:17 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

For sure. Though also miss the internet as it was 25 years ago.

03.02.2026 11:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I must be one of the last school years to have done A Level history using only books and encyclopaedia CD-Roms for research. Finished 1998. I wonder when my school got the internet, can’t have been long after that.

03.02.2026 09:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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28.01.2026 13:15 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Spotted in Altrincham… 🫣

28.01.2026 13:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I wonder if there’s a copy of that buried anywhere nearby 🤔

27.01.2026 16:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes! Thanks @sarahmay1.bsky.social ! I include a bit in some of my Chester tours on ‘signs of progress’ in the built environment and trying to appreciate the constancy of change through archaeology and heritage has long been an interest of mine as you know

19.01.2026 12:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Got it, thank you!

09.01.2026 20:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🏺Do I know anyone with a copy of The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain to hand?

09.01.2026 18:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Genuinely thrilling to see someone publicly complain about another person plagiarising one of their AI prompts.

07.01.2026 14:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the sauna thinking about medieval builders. You? #boxingday

26.12.2025 18:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The years I spent learning musical lyrics instead of working on my GCSEs and A Levels are about to pay off massively.

24.12.2025 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0