#AdoorableThursday St Andrew’s Kirkby Malzeard Yorks. Includes a pile of old bibles (1900-to date)Lovely old door. And an unexpected visitor…

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I should have shown my mum and dad this.. “You’ll get square eyes…”

The first episode of the NEW SEASON of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week' should have aired on Monday 5th January but it was delayed due to snow etc. It WILL launch this week. Maybe not today. But soon.

Could someone please explain to me how the FIFA World Cup can go ahead now? That’s a rhetorical question because we all know that countries involved won’t have the guts to boycott it.

Nigel Farage confirms that Reform UK will vote *against* the bill to lift the two child cap, keeping hundreds of thousands of children in poverty.

Morning.

A snowy scene on the home front Deep Over-Night Fallen Snow, 1916, by George Kenner. A view of Alexandra Palace in the #snow with prisoners sliding down the hill outside and throwing snowballs, while guards in greatcoats patrol along the bottom of the hill. #WW1 Art.IWM ART 17082

Slow news day in Hertford in 1976! Back in less troubled times!

#WindowsonWednesday St Peter’s Formby

#WallsOnWednesday Lime kilns. Solva

‘Give an example of a euphemism” US discussing options to acquire Greenland

Just discovered my great grandad was found guilty of scrumping aged 8 ( it made the papers!). Later, aged 34 he was found guilty of Defalcation (had to be careful how I typed that!) never heard of it!though in mitigation he had 4 kids and a widowed mum to support. #FamilyHistory #genealogy.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

'Sunny day' a painting by Greta Olga Hällfors-Sipilä (1899–1974), Finnish painter #WinterSun

How to help in the war effort.. Don’t buy a soldier a drink!, I think the poor devils deserved a pint! #WW1 #WomensHistory I also think that women “and girls” did a BIT more in the end! mrc-describe.epexio.com/search/all:r...

@observethedate.bsky.social #TraceryTuesday Fantastic #WW1 and #WW2 memorial windows Kettlewell church N Yorkshire

#ThickTrunkTuesday Millers Dale

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 6- A song that tells a clear story. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightgoot The is about the final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald as it sank in an intense storm in Lake Superior Classic storytelling No wasted words share.google/PeyBR8HbyZOQ...

Art Deco tile from a garden in Mallorca. It now has natural foliage as part of the scene! Gorgeous colours #TilesonTuesday

Lucky to find a new lead in my #familyhistory unusual-I’ve been researching for 40 years! While looking in RFC records I came across these names Maj. Amyas Eden "Biffy" Borton DSO, CO Maj. Sidney "Crasher" Smith, C Flight Commander (later CO and DSO, AFC, CdG) Wonderful names! (Crasher though!!)

Reform UK will "dictate" which experts are allowed, based on whether Farage likes their predictions - Richard Tice. Their plans for the OBR show that a Reform government, WILL be a fascist regime.

My mum in law enjoys the #snow in Buffalo NY early 1930s. Her family emigrated from #Liverpool They returned home for good three years later..homesick! #FamilyHistory historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/02/joe-...

My view for the day! I’m going nowhere except to continually top the bird food up! Currently 2 robins, 4 jackdaws, four blackbirds, two wood pigeons and a dunnock I’m sure more will find their way here! #BlueMonday

#BlueMonday #Frost #Winter

My husband’s grandad’s military medal for his actions Passchendaele 1917 Joe Vernon Smith #WW1 #FamilyHistory #AllMetalMonday historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/01/lanc...

From my collection, a war worker's badge for the Scottish Filling Factory, where explosives were added to munitions. I presume this relates to Factory Number 4 at Georgetown. I don't know exactly what happened in the shifting house #WW1 #FWW

Gorgeous stained glass from St Mary’s Wigton Cumbrias There is a representation of the church in the design. It’s beautiful #StainedGlassSunday

Good morning from a bitterly cold beautiful #Formby! #Stunday

I used to ask myself how the German nation fell to the Nazis Now I know #Trump #Venezuela Oh yes, and #EpsteinFiles

As if freedom was a question of might As if loyalty was black and white You hear people say it all the time "My country wrong or right" I want to know what that's got to do With what it takes to find out what's true With everyone from the President on down Trying to keep it from you #Venezuela

A nice suburban little egret! Photographed on my way to the station in #Formby!

St Giles Goodrich Herefordshire Someone is planning ahead! #SpiresOnSaturday . #SteepleSaturday

#Caturday I love the grumpy cat who owns the tea shop! Beatrix Potter ( of course!)

#OTD 3 January 1883. Clement Attlee was born in London. Labour Prime Minister from 1945-51 and introduced key social reforms including family allowances (now child benefit), social security, the NHS and free prescriptions and started the process of building 1m council houses I lived in one.. A hero!

Lovely moon tonight. I can’t compete with the super lenses but this is a nice pic anyway! #Wolfmoon #Supermoon

Is the mum in foreground there to wave her husband off,or is she just taking the baby out for a walk or doing shopping? There are other women - seeing off husbands, brothers, sweethearts? It shows the huge sacrifice of what they were leaving behind and the pain of the separation that women felt #WW1

I cannot believe that as an historian of women in #WW1 AND a birder I didn’t know of this woman! I’ve found her VAD record:she worked as a part-cook at a hospital. Emma Louisa Turner (1867 – 1940) an ornithologist and pioneering bird pjotographer #WomensHistory www.bto.org/about/histor...

This looks brilliant. Lots of really good info on birds and calling for people’s input later in the year. You can get more updates by registering your email. It’s for everyone, you don’t have to be an “expert” www.bto.org/get-involved...

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don’t think those sheep know the way! Land army ‘girl’ July 1916 #fingerpostfriday #WW1 #womenshistory

#FontsonFriday Rathmell Settle

Punch 1939 New Year Morning And what a year it turned out to be

New Year’s Eve for #Genealogists

Which one of us going to crack first and make the long journey with the teabag mountain to the bin ...

Apropos of nothing for the #NewYear These are four of my favourite family history photos out of hundreds In all Honesty, the one with my husband’s family on the beach with a huge teapot is perhaps my very favourite! I’d love to see others #HappyNewYear #FamilystoryPhotos

St Andrew Church. Hope Bowdler A rare coffin stone in the lych gate. Leading to a mightily impressive yew tree “avenue” #Thursgate #Churchcrawling

#AdoorableThursday Stoney Middleton With helpful addition explaining which way the handle turns!

This #postcard was given to my husband’s uncle Edgar in 1924 by his parents when he was about 5 years old. Seems a bit odd .. it’s a bit grown up and when were #NewYears cards a thing for kids!!??? My mum in law was born later that year. #FamilyHistory historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-fa...